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François Roland Truffaut was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. Truffaut came under the tutelage of film critic Andre Bazin as a young man and was hired to write for Bazin's Cahiers du Cinéma, where he became a proponent of the auteur theory, which posits that a film's director is its true author.
“I find that violence is very ambiguous in movies. For example, some films claim to be antiwar, but I don't think I've really seen an antiwar film. Every film about war ends up being pro-war.”
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Ain't Misbehavin
2013 · as Self (archive footage)
The Last Metro
1980 · Director
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · as Claude Lacombe
The Story of Adèle H.
1975 · Director
Day for Night
1973 · Director · as Ferrand, the Director
Bed and Board
1970 · Director · as Le Marchand de Journaux (voice) (uncredited)
Stolen Kisses
1968 · Director
Fahrenheit 451
1966 · Director
The Soft Skin
1964 · Director
Jules and Jim
1962 · Director
The 400 Blows
1959 · Director