High school or the movies? Dad makes a deal Aug 6, 2008
After Jesse dropped out of 10th grade in 2001, Gilmour started their viewing off with The 400 Blows, Francois Truffauts early masterpiece about a Paris teenager who turns to petty crime in rebellion against neglectful parents and a repressive school life. Jesses reaction to The 400 Blows. (MSNBC -- News)
Africa on film focus of SummerFilm schedule at Music Hall May 29, 2008
There are recent Oscar favorites, "No Country for Old Men," "Atonement" and "Into the Wild"; up-to-the-minute blockbusters, "Iron Man" and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"; plus classics, Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" and the French film "The 400 Blows.". "The idea of SummerFilm has always been to give it a sense of diversity and variety," Pence says. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Critics' Picks May 10, 2008
Let's just say he goes into the world having seen "The 400 Blows," "A Fistful of Dollars" and "Showgirls" -- that's got to count for something. -- Andrew O'Hehir. (Salon)
Film Festival for students by students Apr 8, 2008
" Gaeta submitted her own piece to the festival, entitled "L'ecureuil" (The Squirrel). The film is inspired by French filmmaker Truffaut's work, "The 400 Blows. " "It's about the life of a squirrel and it's all in French. (Echo Online, MI)
Face Of New Wave Jan 13, 2008
In the collective mind of moviegoers, he'll always be the youthful emblem of the French New Wave, the handsome youth who grew up onscreen in several dozen films, from "The 400 Blows" (1959) through "The Mother and the Whore" (1973) ... In his first feature, "The 400 Blows," Laud played Antoine as a troubled boy in a film that defines the New Wave ... "The 400 Blows" (7 p.m. Friday): In his book "The Great Movies," Roger Ebert writes that, in this film, Laud "has a kind of solemn detachment, as... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Nov 28, 2007
Paul Cantelon's piano music amplifies the film's delicate, conflicting emotions, while somewhat less gracefully, the soundtrack samples everything from U2 and Tom Waits to the scores from "The 400 Blows" and "Lolita." Inventive credits sequences were designed by Schnabel himself. Camera (color), Janusz Kaminski; editor, Juliette Welfing; music, Paul Cantelon; music supervisor, Schnabel; set designers, Michel Eric, Laurent Ott; costume designer, Olivier Beriot; sound (Dolby Digital/DTS),... (Variety)
Mr. Smithee's must-see flicks Nov 2, 2007
The 400 Blows - OK, it isn t new. But it s a fresh print of Francois Truffaut s 1959 French New Wave classic and it s a must-see on the big screen at the Plaza. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Read on... Aug 23, 2007
Helmer of sports drama Resurrecting the Champ8/22/07 7:00pm Emmy-nommed supporting actor for 'Two and a Half Men'8/21/07 7:00pm Emmy-nominated helmer for "Heroes: Genesis" on NBC8/20/07 11:00pm Co-stars as Charlie in Showtimes Californication. "8/19/07 3:33pm Creator and executive producer of the Emmy-nominated comedy series "Entourage. (Variety)
This Is England Apr 27, 2007
Shane Meadows continues his fast and fluent film-making career with this quasi-autobiographical picture about skinheads: a movie with hints of Alan Clarke's Made in Britain and, in its final image, the haunted disenchantment of Truffaut's The 400 Blows. It is a sad, painful and sometimes funny story from the white working classes of 1980s Britain, the cannon-fodder caste alienated from Falklands rejoicing on the home front and not invited to participate in the nation's promised service-economy... (Guardian Unlimited)
A demanding kind of horse play Feb 26, 2007
DR It's me and the boy who was in The 400 Blows and Truffaut's other Antoine Doinel films. I've been lucky enough to have a direct route laid out for me. (Telegraph.co.uk)
