This page is to obtain access to the Sands Films Cinema Club presentation ONLINE
To attend in person, please CLICK HERE
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LA NUIT AMERICAINE
Truffaut's warm, humane film, made in 1973, can be seen as a delayed riposte to Godard's acrid attack on the commercial cinema in Le mépris, the action of which it closely parallels. A vicious letter Godard wrote to Truffaut about Day for Night effectively turned their friendship into a bitter enmity.Set in Nice's Victorine Studios, where it was filmed, Day for Night is a touching, funny and accurate account of the travails (accidents, disputes, affairs, imbroglios, death) involved in the making of an all-star international picture called Je vous présente Paméla. It is a Pirandellian affair, an elegiac celebration of a dying kind of cinema, a meditation on the connection between film and life by Truffaut, who plays Ferrand, the film's constantly troubled yet dedicated director, a man much like himself. Ferrand compares the process of film-making to "a stagecoach journey into the far west. At the start you hope for a beautiful trip. But shortly you wonder if you will make it at all."
Philip French
The Life and Films of Francois Truffaut
A short season of Francois Truffaut films to mark the 40th anniversary of his death in 1984.
Showings – select to order tickets:
Tue, Jun 11th, 8:00 PM @ Sands Films Cinema
Tue, Jun 18th, 8:00 PM @ Sands Films Cinema
Tue, Jun 25th, 8:00 PM @ Sands Films Cinema
Tue, Jul 2nd, 8:00 PM @ Sands Films Cinema
Tue, Jul 9th, 8:00 PM @ Sands Films Cinema
Tue, Jul 16th, 8:00 PM @ Sands Films Cinema
Day for Night
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Showings
Tue, Jul 16th, 8:00 PM @ Sands Films Cinema
- Year:
- 1973
- Runtime:
- 116 minutes
- Language:
- English, French
- Director:
- François Truffaut
- Screenwriter:
- François Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman
- Producer:
- Marcel Berbert
- Cast:
- Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Truffaut
- Cinematographer:
- Pierre-William Glenn
- Editor:
- Martine Barraqué, Yann Dedet
- Production Design:
- Damien Lanfranchi
- Composer:
- Georges Delerue
This page is to obtain access to the Sands Films Cinema Club presentation ONLINE
To attend in person, please CLICK HERE
*
LA NUIT AMERICAINE
Truffaut's warm, humane film, made in 1973, can be seen as a delayed riposte to Godard's acrid attack on the commercial cinema in Le mépris, the action of which it closely parallels. A vicious letter Godard wrote to Truffaut about Day for Night effectively turned their friendship into a bitter enmity.Set in Nice's Victorine Studios, where it was filmed, Day for Night is a touching, funny and accurate account of the travails (accidents, disputes, affairs, imbroglios, death) involved in the making of an all-star international picture called Je vous présente Paméla. It is a Pirandellian affair, an elegiac celebration of a dying kind of cinema, a meditation on the connection between film and life by Truffaut, who plays Ferrand, the film's constantly troubled yet dedicated director, a man much like himself. Ferrand compares the process of film-making to "a stagecoach journey into the far west. At the start you hope for a beautiful trip. But shortly you wonder if you will make it at all."
Philip French
The Life and Films of Francois Truffaut
A short season of Francois Truffaut films to mark the 40th anniversary of his death in 1984.
Showings – select to order tickets:
Tue, Jun 11th, 8:00 PM @ Sands Films Cinema
Tue, Jun 18th, 8:00 PM @ Sands Films Cinema
Tue, Jun 25th, 8:00 PM @ Sands Films Cinema
Tue, Jul 2nd, 8:00 PM @ Sands Films Cinema
Tue, Jul 9th, 8:00 PM @ Sands Films Cinema
Tue, Jul 16th, 8:00 PM @ Sands Films Cinema
Day for Night
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Showings
Tue, Jul 16th, 8:00 PM @ Sands Films Cinema
- Year:
- 1973
- Runtime:
- 116 minutes
- Language:
- English, French
- Director:
- François Truffaut
- Screenwriter:
- François Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman
- Producer:
- Marcel Berbert
- Cast:
- Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Truffaut
- Cinematographer:
- Pierre-William Glenn
- Editor:
- Martine Barraqué, Yann Dedet
- Production Design:
- Damien Lanfranchi
- Composer:
- Georges Delerue