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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The Big Sleep
1946, in 22 top lists Check -
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À bout de souffle
1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check -
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En cas de malheur
1958 — a.k.a. Love Is My Profession, in 2 top lists Check -
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Casque d'or
1952 — a.k.a. Casque d'Or, in 9 top lists Check -
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Black Angel
1946, in 2 top lists Check -
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Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
1958 — a.k.a. Elevator to the Gallows, in 10 top lists Check -
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Take the Money and Run
1969, in 3 top lists Check -
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Tirez sur le pianiste
1960 — a.k.a. Shoot the Piano Player, in 10 top lists Check -
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Les bas-fonds
1936 — a.k.a. The Lower Depths, in 1 top list Check -
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La bête humaine
1938 — a.k.a. The Human Beast, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Barefoot Contessa
1954, in 8 top lists Check -
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Le corbeau
1943 — a.k.a. The Raven, in 9 top lists Check -
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Le crime de Monsieur Lange
1936 — a.k.a. The Crime of Monsieur Lange, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Lady from Shanghai
1947, in 9 top lists Check -
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Phantom Lady
1944, in 5 top lists Check -
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Pierrot le fou
1965 — a.k.a. Pierrot le Fou, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946, in 9 top lists Check -
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Le journal d'une femme de chambre
1964 — a.k.a. Diary of a Chambermaid, in 2 top lists Check -
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Dial M for Murder
1954, in 9 top lists Check -
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Du rififi chez les femmes
1959 — a.k.a. Riff Raff Girls, in 0 top lists Check -
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Escale à Orly
1955 — a.k.a. Intermediate Landing in Paris, in 0 top lists Check -
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L'auberge rouge
1951 — a.k.a. The Red Inn, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Stranger
1946, in 3 top lists Check -
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Swamp Water
1941, in 1 top list Check -
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Rope
1948, in 10 top lists Check -
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Le garçon sauvage
1951 — a.k.a. Savage Triangle, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Big Knife
1955, in 3 top lists Check -
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Mr. Arkadin
1955 — a.k.a. Confidential Report, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Wrong Man
1956, in 8 top lists Check -
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Les quatre cents coups
1959 — a.k.a. The 400 Blows, in 26 top lists Check -
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An Unseen Enemy
1912, in 0 top lists Check -
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North by Northwest
1959, in 30 top lists Check -
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A Clockwork Orange
1971, in 37 top lists Check -
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The Naked Dawn
1955, in 2 top lists Check -
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Manon
1949, in 2 top lists Check -
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Touch of Evil
1958, in 30 top lists Check -
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Monsieur Verdoux
1947, in 11 top lists Check -
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Kiss Me Deadly
1955, in 20 top lists Check -
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La mariée était en noir
1968 — a.k.a. The Bride Wore Black, in 3 top lists Check -
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Strangers on a Train
1951, in 17 top lists Check -
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927, in 12 top lists Check -
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Pickpocket
1959, in 20 top lists Check -
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The Godfather
1972, in 42 top lists Check -
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Razzia sur la chnouf
1955 — a.k.a. Razzia, in 1 top list Check -
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House of Strangers
1949, in 1 top list Check -
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Scarface
1932, in 16 top lists Check -
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La sirène du Mississipi
1969 — a.k.a. Mississippi Mermaid, in 2 top lists Check -
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Taxi Driver
1976, in 34 top lists Check -
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I Confess
1953, in 2 top lists Check -
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Le jour se lève
1939 — a.k.a. Daybreak, in 12 top lists Check
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