Table of Contents

* What Do Critics Dream About? The Big Secret * Jean Vigo is Dead at Twenty-nine * Abel Gance: Napolon; La Tour de Nesle * A Jean Renoir Festival * The Whiteness of Carl Dreyer * Lubitsch Was a Prince * Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator; A King in New York; Who Is Charlie Chaplin? * God Bless John Ford * Fritz Lang in America * Frank Capra, the Healer * Howard Hawks: Scarface; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Land of the Pharaohs * Joseph Von Sternberg: Jet Pilot * Alfred Hitchcock: Rear Window; To Catch a Thief; The Wrong Man; The Birds; Frenzy The Generation of the Talkies: The Americans * Robert Aldrich: Kiss Me Deadly, Vera Cruz, The Big Knife * William Beaudine: The Feathered Serpent * Budd Boetticher: The Killer Is Loose * George Cukor: It Should Happen to You * Samuel Fuller: Verboten * Elia Kazan: Baby doll; A Face in the Crowd * Stanley Kubrick: Paths of Glory * Charles Laughton: The Night of the Hunter * Mervyn LeRoy: The Bad Seed * Anatole Litvak: Anastasia * Joshua Logan: Picnic * Sidney Lumet: Twelve Angry Men * Joseph Mankiewicz: The Barefoot Contessa * Anthony Mann: Men in War * Robert Mulligan: Fear Strikes Out * Otto Preminger: Bonjour Tristesse * Nicholas Ray: Johnny Guitar; Bigger Than Life * Douglas Sirk: Written on the Wind * Frank Tashlin: The Girl Cant Help It; Hollywood or Bust * Edgar Ulmer: The Naked Dawn * Charles Vidor: Love Me or Leave Me * Billy Wilder: The Seven Year Itch; Stalag * Robert Wise: So Big; Destination Gobi The Generation of the Talkies: The French * Claude Autant-Lara: La Traverse de Paris; En Cas de Malheur * Jacques Becker: Casque dOr; Touchez Pas au Grisbi; Arsne Lupin; Le Trou; Jacques Becker, A Year After His Death * Robert Bresson: Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne; Un Condamn Mort SEst chapp * Ren Clment: Monsieur Ripois * Henri-Georges Clouzot: Le Mystre Picasso * Jean Cocteau: Le Testament dOrphe * Jules Dassin: Le Refifi Chez les Hommes; Celui Qui Doit Mourir * Sacha Guitry: Assassins et Voleurs; Sacha Guitry the Villain * Albert Lamorisse: Le Ballon Rouge * Jean-Pierre Melville: Les Enfants Terribles * Max Ophuls: Lola Monts; Max Ophuls Is Dead * Jacques Tati: Mon Oncle Hurrah For The Japanese Cinema * Kenji Mizoguchi: The Street of Shame * Kon Ichikawa: The Burmese Harp * Yasushi Nakahira: Juvenile Passion * Keisuke Kinoshita: The Legend of Nayarama Some Outsiders * Ingmar Bergman: Bergmans Opus; Cries and Whispers * Buuel the Builder * Norman MacLaren: Blinkety Blank * Federico Fellini: The Nights of Cabiria; 8( * Roberto Rossellini Prefers Real Life * Orson Welles: Citizen Kane, the Fragile Giant; Confidential Report; Touch of Evil * A Portrait of Humphrey Bogart * James Dead Is Dead My Friends in the New Wave * Alain Resnais: Nuit et Brouillard * Alexandre Astruc: Les Mauvaises Rencontres * Agns Varda: La Pointe Courte * Roger Vadim: Et Dieu Cra La Femme * Claude Chabrol: Le Beau Serge * Louis Malle: Les Amants; Le Feu Follet * Jean-Luc Godard: Tous les Garons Sappellent Patrick; Vivre sa Vie * Jacques Rivette: Paris Nous Appartient * Jacques Rozier: Adieu Philippine * Pierre Kast: Vacances Protugaises * Alain Resnais: Muriel * Jean-Pierre Mocky: Les Vierges * Claude Berri: Le Vieil Homme et LEnfant; Le Cinma de Papa * Grard Blain: Les Amis * Laszlo Szabo: Les Gants Blancs du Diable * Claude Sautet: Vincent, Franois, Paul et les Autres * Jazques Doillon: Les Doigts dans la Tte

About the Author

Fran ois Truffaut (1932-1984), left a legacy of beloved and influential films that include The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Stolen Kisses, Day for Night, and The Story of Adele H.