There are some partnerships that just works – an adaptation merging perfectly well with a…
Tag: 1959
Japanese film-maker Kon Ichikawa’s international reputation as a humanist film-maker was cemented with his eloquent…
It is one of the most beloved films of the French new wave. But why…
Minimalist French-filmmaker Robert Bresson’s 1959 feature Pickpocket is a prime example of exhibiting small things…
I did read quite a bit about Francois Truffaut before watching ‘The 400 Blows’ and found the man notoriously interesting. Before Truffaut made his debut as a film director, he was a vehement film critic who infamously stripped movies he didn’t like, in his reviews. His harsh film criticism barred him from attending the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. Only one year later, he won the Best Director Award at the same festival for his debut film The 400 Blows. He was also one of the men who devised “The Auteur Theory”,
