Metro Cinema Society: The Films of Francois Truffaut

The Films of Francois Truffaut

Truffaut: Shoot the Piano Player

Director: Francois Truffaut

France 1960, 81 min, 35mm

Mar 5 (2010) @ 7pm
Mar 8 & 10 (2010) @ 9pm

François Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this, his most playful film. Part thriller, part comedy, part tragedy, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour, in a triumph of hangdog... view more

Truffaut: Small Change

Director: Francois Truffaut

France 1976, 104 min, 35mm

Mar 5 (2010) @ 9pm
Mar 7 & 8 (2010) @ 7pm

Too long absent from the big screen, Small Change is one of Truffaut’s most poetic and personal films, a radiant celebration of the world of childhood. Through a series of loosely connected vignettes in a small city in southern France,... view more

Truffaut: The Wild Child

Director: Francois Truffaut

France 1970, 83 min, 35mm

Mar 6 (2010) @ 7pm
Mar 9 (2010) @ 9pm

“Suffused with Truffaut’s radiant love for the movies’ beginnings, when everything was being done for the first time, when the language was learned. It has a miraculous kind of balance: between freedom and control, originality and homage, the discovery of... view more

Truffaut: Mississippi Mermaid

Director: Francois Truffaut

France 1969, 123 min, 35mm

Mar 6 & 7 (2010) @ 9pm

"Mississippi Mermaid is a rich and tropical amalgam of the post-war French fascination with the great American tradition of gritty urban thrillers and Francois Truffaut’s growing yearnings for settings more and more dystopian and exotic. Viewed today, the film remains... view more