Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. The Films of François Truffaut 3
5. Chronology 5
6. Why Truffaut? 9
7. In His Own Words I 22
8. Roland Lévy and Roland Truffaut 23
9. Early Films: François and Sam 26
10. The Godfather: André Bazin (1918–1958) 31
11. 1 January 1954: “A certain Tendency in French Cinema” 36
12. The Mischief Makers (1957): Some Boys and a Girl on a Bicycle 41
13. Films Truffaut Didn’ t Make I 44
14. Some Titles for the 400 Blows (1959) 48
15. Making Films Together: a Letter to the Cast and Crew of the Last Metro (21 January 1980) 50
16. The 400B Lows: a Life on Film 53
17. Jean-Pierre Léaud With Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Bernardo Bertolucci 62
18. Robert Lachenay (1930–2005): the Best Friend and the Ancillary Life 69
19. Sacha Guitry (1885–1957): Le Roman D’un Tricheur (1936) and the 400 Blows 72
20. Shoot the Piano Player (1960): All You Need is Love 75
21. Shoot the Piano Player and a Debtto the Past 80
22. Truffaut’s Breathless and Jean-Luc Godard’s 82
23. A Posthumous Questionnaire (January 2015) 84
24. Truffaut in his Letters 90
25. Jules and Jim (1961): When we Speak of Freedom and Love and Death 95
26. Eric Rohmer’s La Collectionneuse (1967) and Jules and Jim 104
27. Julian Barnes’s Talking it Over (1991) and Jules and Jim 107
28. Salman Rushdie’s the Ground beneath Her Feet (1999) and Jules and Jim 109
29. Truffaut in and Out of His Time 112
30. Carlos Saura on the Soft Skin (1964), Obliquely 114
31. The Auteur and the Empty Room 116
32. Meeting Jeanne Moreau in Venice 119
33. Truffaut Looks Backto Godard: Fahrenheit 451 (1966) and Alphaville (1965) 124
34. Fahrenheit 451 and Truffaut’s English 125
35. The Bride Wore Black (1967) 128
36. Jacques Demy, Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, and Truffaut 131
37. Stolen Kisses (1968): a Debt to Marcel Proust or Anatole France 134
38. David Thomson’s Mississippi Mermaid (1969) 136
39. Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Week-end (1967), the Wild Child (1969): a Dialogue? 138
40. Maurice Pialat’s Wild Child: L’Enfance Nue (1968) 142
41. Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry (1997) and Antoine Doinel 144
42. Patrice Leconte’s the Girl on the Bridge (1999) 146
43. “François, My Boy” and “Mr Hitchcock” 148
44. Truffaut’s Typewriters 153
45. The Ending of Two English Girls (1971) 156
46. Two English Girls, Agora (2009), and Seeing Red on the Screen 161
47. Truffaut, Godard, and Timbres 164
48. Truffaut’s Afterlife: the Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) 166
49. Johnny Guitar(1954): Bad Faith in Truffaut and David Thomson 168
50. A Title Quiz 171
51. Creativity and Accidents 172
52. Day for Night (1973): the Family Movie 176
53. Day for Night, Wes Anderson, and American Express 180
54. 81/2 (1963), Day for Night (1973), Stardust Memories (1980), Nine (2009) 183
55. Pauline Kael, Wim Wenders, and Truffaut 185
56. Truffaut, Adam Zagajewski, and the Fate of Spirit 190
57. Truffaut in the Squid and the Whale (2005) 191
58. Truffaut and Paul Léautaud (1872–1956) 194
59. Montmartre and “Certification” 199
60. The Story of Adele H. (1975): Truffaut ’s Feminism 201
61. Truffaut and Deneuve in the Story of Adèle H. 206
62. A Dream: the Story of Adèle H. and Elle 209
63. Small Change (1976) and Renoir’s the River (1951) 211
64. An Aged Man Is but a Paltry Thing 214
65. Ingmar Bergman, Cavaleur 217
66. Fame: Daphne Moon, Niles Crane, and a Truffaut Film 220
67. The Man Who Loved Women (1977): Truffaut and DonJuan 221
68. João César Monteiro’s a Comédia De Deus (1995): the Man Who Loved Girls 224
69. Leslie Caron 226
70. Suzanne Schiffman (1929–2001) 229
71. Trufard and Godfaut: Resemblances 232
72. Balthus (1908–2001) 234
73. Film Names: Who Remembers Michel Poiccard and Patricia Franchini? 236
74. The Green Room (1978): the Man Who Loved One Woman 241
75. A Short History of “Dummies”: Luis Buñuel, Truffaut, and Oskar Kokoschka 250
76. The Sentence That Sticks 255
77. Pauline Kael’s Farewell to Truffaut and Godard 258
78. Paul Schrader’s Tears 261
79. The Last Metro (1980): François Truffaut-Lévy 263
80. Subtitles and Voices 269
81. Roberto Rossellini (1906–1977): the Italian Godfather 271
82. The Woman Next Door (1981): “Neither With You Nor without You” 274
83. Fany Marguerite Judith Ardant 278
84. François and Sam: Some Favourite Films 280
85. A Godard Dream (26 June 2011) 281
86. Le Journal D’ Alphonse: a Doinel Sequel 284
87. In His Own Words II 288
88. Truffaut’s Afterlife: Amélie (2001) 289
89. Antoine De Baecque’s Two in the Wave (2010) 292
90. Unfinished Business: Films Truffaut Didn’t Make II 295
91. The Grave in Montmartre 299
92. Last Words 302
93. Notes 303
94. Bibliography 319
95. Index 331