Steven Spielberg unabashedly claimed that Francois Truffaut is the man who loves cinema the most than anyone else ever. Which means he himself is included. In many of his interviews, Truffaut explained how the only thing he ever did was either...

Francois Truffaut, director of the film The 400 Blows (1959), concerns himself with the delinquent child abandoned by the education system and even the family. As a French New Wave director, Truffaut’s motive is to represent the real-life drama of...

The 1959 film Les 400 Coups (The Four hundred blows, a French idiom referencing something along the lines of “raising hell”) articulates the city of Paris as a city full of temptations and corruption, which shapes Antoine into the character he...

In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, protagonist Guy Montag questions the rules and teachings of the society in which he lives. Throughout the story, his view of life and books changes. There are numerous differences between the novel...

Perhaps the most iconic scene in Francois Truffaut’s Jules and Jim (1962) begins at 11:38. When Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) and going to meet Catherine (Jeanne Moreau) to spend the evening together, and Catherine excites the scene...