TF1 VIDEO AND MK2 PAY HOMAGE TO FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT

Thu, 09/25/2014 - 16:27

TF1 VIDEO AND MK2 PAY HOMAGE TO FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT

Coinciding with the major exhibition on François Truffaut opening at the Cinémathèque Française on 8 October, TF1 VIDEO and MK2 are publishing the first complete collection of the director’s work on DVD.

The new release is the first complete collection of Truffaut’s feature, short and medium-length films, containing 21 masterpieces of French cinema and exclusively including Une belle fille comme moi. The box set features a number of extras and an introductory text by Serge Toubiana.

Launch on 1 October.

Despite his early death at the age of 52, François Truffaut made 21 feature films. He was just 27 when he won Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival for The 400 Blows and at that point already had a consequential body of work behind him. A man who lived and breathed for cinema, Truffaut went on to win an Oscar for Day for Night in 1974, ten César awards for The Last Metro in 1981, and was cast in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Featuring numerous extracts from his films and interviews, the exhibition includes drawings, photographs, objects, books, costumes and annotated scripts, most of them from the collections of the Cinémathèque Française. François Truffaut and his friends from the nouvelle vague maintained close and long-standing ties with the Cinémathèque, founded by Henri Langlois and where the young directors developed their love of cinema. This relationship was further strengthened by Truffaut’s family, which donated to the Cinémathèque all the copies and archives of the Films du Carrosse production company created by Truffaut in 1957.

The exhibition runs from 8 October 2014 to 25 January 2015.

“I make films to make my teenage dreams come true, to make myself feel good and, if possible, to make other people feel good”

François Truffaut

Find out more at: http://www.cinematheque.fr/fr/expositions-cinema/itinerances/truffaut1.html