The late Francois Truffaut (1932-1984), perhaps the most respected member of the New Wave group of French moviemakers, left a legacy of beloved and influential films that includes The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Stolen Kisses, Day for Night, and The Story of Adele H. Equally fascinating is the very large body of film criticism Truffaut wrote over many years for Cahiers du Cinéma and other leading film journals. Wonderfully varied, personal, informal, these reviews all communicate unabashed love for the movies and an enormous excitement about them. “The Films in My Life” is Truffaut’s own selection of more than one hundred essays that range widely over the history of film and pay tribute to Truffaut’s particular heroes, among them Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir, Bergman, and Buñuel.

ISBN: 0671246631