His first feature length movie, Les Quatre Cent Coups (The 400 Blows), ushered in the French New Wave. In other he promoted many American directors who had been dismissed as mere entertainers. His most famous is A Certain Tendency In French Cinema in which he criticized the prevailing trend of psychological realism as being neither psychological nor realistic. Truffaut developed a reputation for the passionate way he advocated for or condemned a film under his review, gaining the nickname “the grave-digger of French Cinema”. He spent time at a juvenal detention center for stealing a typewriter before landing a job as a film critic. He did this mostly by sneaking into one of the 200 theatres in his Parisian neighborhood that had popped up after the Second World War. His goal was to watch three movies a day and read three books a week. To that end, let’s look at the unofficial ancestors: a list of films that influenced great directors.įrançois Truffaut left his formal schooling at the age of 14 and pursued his own education with the cinema as an alternative classroom.
Whatever one’s motivation, the joy of uncovering the lineage of a favorite director by watching the films that inspired him or her adds another layer of pleasure to the pursuit of excellent movies. I learned the technical stuff from books and mags…Film school is a complete con, because the information is out there if you want it.” When explaining why he dropped out of film school, Paul Thomas Anderson said “My film making education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films.
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