Francois Truffaut

It took a screenplay set among Americans in Spain for Woody Allen to make his most French film yet. "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" plays like a conscious attempt at a freewheeling artifact of the French New Wave, particularly Francois Truffaut's "Jules and...

Jean Delannoy Cannes-winning French filmmaker Jean Delannoy, 100, a classic French filmmaker who adapted novels by Victor Hugo and Andre Gide and won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize in 1946, died Wednesday at his home in Guainville, southwest of...

few pages into "The Film Club," the smart new memoir by Canadian film critic David Gilmour, it becomes clear that if he ever saw any of MGM's squeaky-clean Andy Hardy movies while growing up, they left little impression on him. It's doubtful that the...

French movie musicals are an oxymoron, notwithstanding the luxuriantly camp collaborations of "Umbrellas of Cherbourg" director Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand back in the '60s. Christophe Honoré's flat-footed "Love Songs" does little to change...

Jules Dassin, the blacklisted American filmmaker who was a master of film noir, directing such classics as "Brute Force," "The Naked City" and "Rififi," died Monday in an Athens hospital. He was 96. The cause of death was not made public. The...

Shot in supple black and white in widescreen Dyalscope, Francois Truffaut's 1959 masterwork "The 400 Blows" seems forever young. Why? Partly because of its casting; partly because Truffaut knew how to communicate to an audience eager for unsentimental...

3 stars (out of four) The roaming shots of the French capital and the desultory drift of modern life are right out of a 1960s New Wave classic, except that the more recent "Dans Paris" is shot in color. Clearly, director Christophe Honore intends this...

1. 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' 7 p.m., AMC Director Steven Spielberg's 1977 science-fiction epic remains one of the best screen testaments to the notion "we are not alone." Richard Dreyfuss plays a power-company worker who learns...

Jean-Luc Godard is not merely the iconoclastic, indefatigable enfant terrible of France's New Wave but one of the most idiosyncratic and important filmmakers of the 20th century, whose innovative spirit continues to flourish into the 21st. His...

3 stars (out of four) "Family Law," from Argentina, is a very articulate comedy about fatherhood and marriage . The writer-director, Daniel Burman--who also directed the similarly well-made Berlin festival prize winner "Lost Embrace" (2004) with the same...

3 stars (out of four) Movies set in academia, such as "The Paper Chase," often have a tendency toward self-congratulatory intellectualism and a fixation on collegiate romance. "Poison Friends" (or "Les Amities Malefiques") is instead a psychological...

From Alexander Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo" through Francois Truffaut's version of "The Bride Wore Black," no one has understood the old proverb that revenge is a dish best served cold as well as the French. Now, in "The Page Turner," comes...