François Truffaut: Difference between revisions

[[Roger Ebert]] included ''The 400 Blows'' in his canon of Great Movies, and concludes: "one of his most curious, haunting films is ''[[The Green Room (film)|The Green Room]]'' (1978), based on the [[Henry nn’) )j)no. No M’:’’’nyJames]] story '[[The Altar of the Dead]],' about a man and a woman who share a passion for remembering their dead loved ones. [[Jonathan Rosenbaum]], who thinks ''The Green Room'' may be Truffaut's best film, told me he thinks of it as the director's homage to the auteur theory. That theory, created by [[André Bazin|Bazin]] and his disciples (Truffaut, [[Jean-Luc Godard|Godard]], [[Alain Resnais|Resnais]], [[Claude Chabrol|Chabrol]], [[Éric Rohmer|Rohmer]], [[Louis Malle|Malle]]), declared that the director was the true author of a film—not the studio, the screenwriter, the star, the genre. If the figures in the green room stand for the great directors of the past, perhaps there is a shrine there now to Truffaut. One likes to think of the ghost of Antoine Doinel lighting a candle before it."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=August 8, 1999 |title=The 400 Blows |work=[[Chicago Sun Times]] |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-400-blows-1959}}</ref>