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Andre Bazin, the great cinema theorist, begins his cinema studies by establishing a cinema club in the House of Letters he founded in Paris. Thanks to those who come to the club, new friendships, emerging publications and the effects of those publications, a small movement evolves into the magazine: Les Cahiers du Cinema.
Les Quatre Cents Coups by François Truffaut (1959) Read More
The concept of “auteur”, which the New Wave presents to cinema, has the idea that the writer and director of the movie is the same person, and that the name of the movie creator is again the director. Accepting Alexandre Astruc’s assertion that the director can use the camera like a pencil, he thinks to bring this idea to life. Truffaut Tirez reinterprets the novel he inspired in “Sur le Pianiste”.
Tirez Sur le Pianiste by François Truffaut (1960) Read More