François Truffaut (1932–1984)

Truffaut as critic

Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock, probably during the interviews for Hitchcock/Truffaut.
Source: IMDb

Truffaut as director

Godard and Truffaut.

Source: Film is the Word.

Shooting La Peau Douce in 1964. Source: The Guardian.

Categories of Truffaut's films

1. Antoine Doinel films

From left: unknown woman, Jean Cocteau, François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Léaud (in front), Albert Rémy, and Edward G. Robinson at Cannes 1959.
Source: Flickhead.

Léaud as Antoine in Stolen Kisses, in front of a photograph from Antoine and Collette, in front of a drawing from The 400 Blows.
Source: StreamLine.

2. Genre Films

• For example:
  • Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
  • The Bride Wore Black (1968)
  • Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

3. Historical Films

• For example:
  • Two English Girls (1971)
  • The Story of Adele H (1975)

4. Films of Childhood

• For example:
  • Les Mistons ("the brats"; short, 1957)
  • The 400 Blows (1959)
  • The Wild Child (1970)
  • Small Change (1976)

Truffaut as actor

(From left) Richard Dreyfuss, Bob Balaban, and François Truffaut in Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
Source:Photo by Archive Photos © 2012 Getty Images, IMDb.

Source:Photo by Archive Photos © 2012 Getty Images, IMDb.

Truffaut in The Wild Child ( L'Enfant sauvage, 1970).
Source:The Film Desk