Reblogged from get-organezized
GOOGLE DOODLE HONORS FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT
today, the google doodlers are honoring the great francois truffaut, who was born on this day in 1932.
criterion addicts should have very little trouble placing these three images.
“Arguably the foremost of the New Wave film-makers, Truffaut was also the first to go: killed by a brain tumour at the age of 52 after a life spent in perpetual motion. In his teens he had been the juvenile tearaway and in his 20s a crusading film critic, railing against the impoverished state of post-war French cinema and refining the auteur theory to allow the inclusion of Hollywood titans like Hitchcock and Ford.
Yet Truffaut went on to prove himself one of the most fresh and vibrant directors of his generation…
Softer than Godard, warmer than Chabrol, and more meaty than Rohmer, Truffaut was the man who brought the nouvelle-vague to the mainstream; who took cerebral film theory and made it sing. Happy birthday, François Truffaut. And wherever you may be, we hope there is cake and candles and that Eva Braun hasn’t drunk all the Blue Nun.”
via: Xan Brooks
