François Truffaut's Le Plaisir des Yeux
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"This book is a collection of essays, some insightful, some brief "fillers." Together it would be hard to rate the grouping as 5-stars, save for a sentimental attachment to Truffaut's work.
The book is not just the reflections of the director upon his own work. Nor is it only French cinema. One essay is entitled "The Renaissance of American cinema," and in other essays he looks at the work of Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Orson Wells, and Charlie Chaplin. Naturally he also looks at the famous French directors, from Jean Cocteau, Jean Renoir and the one man who was so responsible for saving the earlier French works, Henri Langlois. A major section of the book is devoted to essays that relate to the impact of literature on the cinema."
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Bitter Victory
1957, in 3 top lists Check -
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Apocalypse Now
1979, in 37 top lists Check -
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Jeux interdits
1952 — a.k.a. Forbidden Games, in 15 top lists Check -
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Un caprice de Caroline chérie
1953 — a.k.a. Caroline Cherie, in 0 top lists Check -
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Scipione l'africano
1937, in 0 top lists Check -
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Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent...
1956 — a.k.a. A Man Escaped, in 20 top lists Check -
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Les démons de l'aube
1946 — a.k.a. Dawn Devils, in 0 top lists Check -
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Doctor Zhivago
1965, in 17 top lists Check -
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Sea Wife
1957, in 0 top lists Check -
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Le roi de coeur
1966 — a.k.a. King of Hearts, in 1 top list Check -
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Les évadés
1955 — a.k.a. The Fugitives, in 0 top lists Check -
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Campanadas a medianoche
1965 — a.k.a. Chimes at Midnight, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Deer Hunter
1978, in 26 top lists Check -
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The Great Dictator
1940, in 25 top lists Check -
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La grande illusion
1937 — a.k.a. The Grand Illusion, in 30 top lists Check -
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Lancelot du Lac
1974 — a.k.a. Lancelot of the Lake, in 4 top lists Check -
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Macbeth
1948, in 1 top list Check -
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Les miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois
1951 — a.k.a. Miracles Only Happen Once, in 0 top lists Check -
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Roma città aperta
1945 — a.k.a. Rome, Open City, in 23 top lists Check -
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Le dernier métro
1980 — a.k.a. The Last Metro, in 8 top lists Check
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