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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À bout de souffle
1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check -
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Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs
1954 — a.k.a. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, in 0 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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L'amour à vingt ans
1962 — a.k.a. Love at Twenty, in 0 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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L'Atalante
1934, in 21 top lists Check -
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Le mura di Malapaga
1949 — a.k.a. The Walls of Malapaga, in 2 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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Baisers volés
1968 — a.k.a. Stolen Kisses, in 7 top lists Check -
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Billy Liar
1963, in 7 top lists Check -
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California Suite
1978, in 0 top lists Check -
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Singin' in the Rain
1952, in 37 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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Les caprices de Marie
1970 — a.k.a. Give Her the Moon, in 0 top lists Check -
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La chamade
1968 — a.k.a. Heartbeat, in 0 top lists Check -
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Days of Heaven
1978, in 19 top lists Check -
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The Circus
1928, in 10 top lists Check -
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Le carrosse d'or
1952 — a.k.a. The Golden Coach, in 7 top lists Check -
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Les choses de la vie
1970 — a.k.a. The Things of Life, in 1 top list Check -
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A Countess from Hong Kong
1967, in 1 top list Check -
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Vertigo
1958, in 42 top lists Check -
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Adam's Rib
1949, in 8 top lists Check -
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Les dames du Bois de Boulogne
1945 — a.k.a. The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne, in 7 top lists Check -
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Darling
1965, in 7 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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Les dernières vacances
1948 — a.k.a. The Last Vacation, in 0 top lists Check -
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Brief Encounter
1945, in 22 top lists Check -
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The April Fools
1969, in 0 top lists Check -
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Partie de campagne
1946 — a.k.a. A Day in the Country, in 13 top lists Check -
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Le diable au corps
1947 — a.k.a. Devil in the Flesh, in 2 top lists Check -
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Doctor Zhivago
1965, in 17 top lists Check -
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Les deux Anglaises et le continent
1971 — a.k.a. Two English Girls, in 5 top lists Check -
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Et Dieu... créa la femme
1956 — a.k.a. ...And God Created Woman, in 5 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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Elena et les hommes
1956 — a.k.a. Elena and Her Men, in 4 top lists Check -
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L'éternel retour
1943 — a.k.a. Love Eternal, in 1 top list Check -
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La fille de l'eau
1925 — a.k.a. Whirlpool of Fate, in 1 top list Check -
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The Goodbye Girl
1977, in 4 top lists Check -
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Gilda
1946, in 13 top lists Check -
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Les parapluies de Cherbourg
1964 — a.k.a. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, in 18 top lists Check -
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Hiroshima mon amour
1959 — a.k.a. Hiroshima Mon Amour, in 17 top lists Check -
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L'homme qui aimait les femmes
1977 — a.k.a. The Man Who Loved Women, in 2 top lists Check -
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953, in 11 top lists Check -
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Notorious
1946, in 24 top lists Check -
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Jules et Jim
1962 — a.k.a. Jules and Jim, in 21 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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Lola Montès
1955, in 12 top lists Check -
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Lure of the Wilderness
1952, in 0 top lists Check -
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City Lights
1931, in 34 top lists Check -
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Madame de...
1953 — a.k.a. The Earrings of Madame De..., in 13 top lists Check
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