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Truffaut Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Truffaut
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2025
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2025: The 63rd Edition Comes to a Close
Chaz at Cannes
Cannes 2025 Video #9: Wrap Up
DVD/Blu-Ray
How to Be Human: A Personal Response to John Carpenter’s “Starman,” Now in 4K
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: Nouvelle Vague, A Magnificent Life
Festivals & Awards
New York Film Festival 2024: Preview and Thoughts on “The Brutalist,” “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
Far Flungers
Transcending Hell on Earth in Larisa Shepitko’s “The Ascent”
Festivals & Awards
Venice Film Festival 2024: Babygirl, The Order, The Brutalist, I’m Still Here
Features
Book Excerpt: A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda by Carrie Rickey
Features
Retrospective: Jean-Pierre Melville and the Cinematic Hitman
Chaz's Journal
The Gene Siskel Film Center Celebrates the First and Last of Famous Filmmakers with their Entrances & Exits Series
Interviews
Fear, Hope, and Joy: Ramata-Toulaye Sy on Banel and Adama
Festivals & Awards
A Preview of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival
Tributes
I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It Before: Roger Corman (1926-2024)
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: November 2023
TV/Streaming
Criterion Releases Special Edition of Nicolas Roeg’s Masterful Walkabout
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2023: Stamped from the Beginning, They Shot the Piano Player, Viva Varda!
Features
The Power of Imagination: On the 20th Anniversary of Big Fish
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: July 2023
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: June 2023
Features
Must-See Jean Eustache Film Series Led by 4K Restoration of The Mother and the Whore
Chaz at Cannes
Cannes 2023 Video #2: Festival Opens with Jeanne du Barry
Tributes
Only Remember Beautiful Moments: Carlos Saura (1932-2023)
Interviews
Sally Potter on Her New Short Film Look At Me, Her Metrograph Retrospective, Her Upcoming Comedy, and More
Tributes
Image is Happiness: Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022)
Festivals & Awards
Fantasia 2022: Coupez!, Hard Boiled, Cavalcade of Perversions: A Regular Little Orgy
Interviews
David Cronenberg, Léa Seydoux, and Viggo Mortensen on Crimes of the Future, Cannes, eXistenZ, and More
Features
Jesus, I Love to Shoot Film: The Siskel Film Center Pays Tribute to Haskell Wexler
Festivals & Awards
Roger’s Top Ten Lists: Best Films of the 1990s
Festivals & Awards
Roger’s Top Ten Lists: Best Films of the 1980s
TV/Streaming
Greed is Good in Showtime’s Compelling Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
Tributes
Jean-Paul Belmondo: 1933-2021
Tributes
Bertrand Tavernier: 1941-2021
Features
Two by Louis Valray: La Belle de Nuit and Escale
Features
Anna Karina: 1940-2019
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2019: A Year of Milestones
Features
On Jacqueline Audry’s Newly Restored Lost Queer Cinema Classic, Olivia
Chaz's Journal
Sexualized Innocence: Revisiting The Blue Lagoon
Features
Stanley Donen: 1924-2019
Interviews
Jonathan Rosenbaum on His New Book Collection, Cinematic Encounters
Interviews
Robert Zemeckis and Steve Carell on Welcome to Marwen, Adding Action and Comedy to a True Story and More
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2018
Features
RIP Cinema: On James Dean’s Disappearance and French New Wave Legacy
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2018: The Slows, In My Room, Sorry Angel, Too Late to Die Young
Features
Believing in Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema
Interviews
Celebrating the Artifice: Laurent Bouzereau on Spielberg, Hitchcock, De Palma and More
Festivals & Awards
Celebrating Michael Kutza: Founder of Chicago International Film Festival to be Honored at July 14th Gala
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: July 5, 2018
Features
Book Review: People Only Die of Love in Movies: Film Writing by Jim Ridley
Features
Thumbnails Special Edition: Critics in the Spotlight
Festivals & Awards
Michael Kutza, Retiring Founder of Cinema/Chicago, to be Honored at July 14th Gala
Festivals & Awards
Cannes Film Festival 2018 Preview: The Top Films Competing For the Palme d’Or
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2018 Guests: Part II
Chaz's Journal
Walking a Tightrope: A Defense of The Greatest Showman
Features
I Have Seen Grace: Revisiting Harriet Andersson’s Classic Performances
Features
“Call of Duty” and “Wolfenstein” Redefine the Modern WWII Game
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2017: “Wonder Wheel”
Chaz's Journal
Photo Gallery: Roger Ebert Induction Ceremony
Features
Much More than “Star Wars”: The Cinema of ’77 Strikes Back at Film Society of Lincoln Center
Features
Jeanne Moreau: 1928-2017
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: July 13, 2017
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room May 2017: “There’s Still a Lot of World to See: Reconnecting with Childhood Joy in Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom'”
Chaz's Journal
Ebert Fellows at Ebertfest 2017: Table of Contents
Features
Thumbnails 3/17/17
Interviews
A Supreme Artist: Pascal Mérigeau on “Jean Renoir: A Biography”
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2016: The Ebert Tribute to Agnès Varda
Festivals & Awards
Telluride 2016: A Cinematic High
Interviews
Feel It All: Drake Doremus on “Equals”
Features
A Slice of Life: Abbas Kiarostami 1940-2016
Chaz's Journal
Roger’s Favorites: Agnès Varda
MZS
The Unloved, Part 30: Torn Curtain & Topaz
MZS
A Celebration of His Work 2016: 13 of Roger’s Best Reviews
MZS
30 Minutes on: “Midnight Special”
Features
“La Dolce Vita” No More: On The Current State of Foreign-Language Film Distribution
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: March 17, 2016
Features
Jacques Rivette: 1928-2016
MZS
Medium For a Dead Person: Mark Rappaport Comes to Fandor
Features
Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg: Like Mother, Like Daughter
Features
Thumbnails 1/5/2016
MZS
A difficult friend: Ed Copeland, AKA Scott Schuldt, 1969-2015
Chaz's Journal
Roger’s Top Ten Lists: An Introduction
Interviews
It’s Real: A Few Words with Haskell Wexler
Interviews
Solidarity of Cinema: Kent Jones on “Hitchcock/Truffaut”
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2015: Films We’ve Covered At Other Fests
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2015: “No Home Movie,” “Microbe & Gasoline”
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2015: “Arabian Nights” & “Les Cowboys”
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2015: “Our Last Tango,” “Hitchcock/Truffaut,” “Miss Sharon Jones!”
Festivals & Awards
Venice Film Festival 2015: The Golden Lion and Biennale College Films
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2015: Table of Contents
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2015: Movies We’ve Already Seen at Other Fests
Festivals & Awards
Telluride 2015: Table of Contents
Festivals & Awards
Telluride 2015: “Hitchcock/Truffaut”
Festivals & Awards
Telluride 2015: A Preview, Believe It or Not
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: August 20, 2015
Features
Art House Sirens American Western Blu-ray Double Feature: “Duel At Diablo” and “Monte Walsh”
Features
You Don’t Have To Be A Movie Buff To Love The Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Play “The Flick,” But It Helps
Chaz's Journal
Who’s Who In Reviews: Glenn Kenny
Festivals & Awards
The Worst Movies of 2015 (So Far)
Festivals & Awards
