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The Important Cinema Club

#133 - Did François Truffaut Become What He Despised?

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7576 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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We discuss the career of the writer/director of 400 BLOWS, DAY FOR NIGHT, and CONFIDENTIALLY YOURS. WWW.PATREON.COM/THEIMPORTANTCINEMACLUB On this week's Patreon episode, we discuss two classic films we watched for the first time. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop us a line at importantcinemaclubpodcast@gmail.com

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0:00.0

Hello, my name is Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan, and you're listening to

0:08.5

the Important Cinema Club, and today we're going to ride that French new wave with Francois Truffaut.

0:14.7

You mean Francois Truffaut?

0:16.9

Exactly.

0:17.9

You know, the important cinema club is kind of the Cayet de Cinema of the New Millennium. Yep. Justin here, a bit of a true foe type. Me, you know, a bit of a Goddard. That's right. Like you and me, we go on long rambles around the streets of Paris after seeing movies. Was that the best Frank Tashlin film? I don't know, maybe. And then in 20 years after I've been fully radicalized and

0:38.9

you've, you know, softened. Yeah, you've moved on to a life of bourgeois domesticity and you're

0:43.8

making movies like day for night. We'll have our violent falling out. I can't wait for you to send

0:48.3

the angry letter to me being like, Justin, this movie you made about making movies doesn't really

0:52.7

represent our vision or to be about

0:54.5

recording podcasts.

0:56.0

Yeah.

0:56.3

And then you can say to me, you know, Truffaut did one of my favorite insults of all

1:00.7

time to Goddard, where he said, you should make a movie about your life called A Shit is

1:04.7

a Shit.

1:07.1

How long do you think you workshop that one?

1:10.2

So Truffaut, the Normies like best.

1:13.3

Yeah.

1:14.3

You know, he's the one who won Oscars for Best Foreign Film.

1:18.1

His films were actually in the big Oscar categories a lot, while other filmmakers

1:23.4

were becoming more radicalized.

1:25.2

Yes.

1:25.6

Or just going completely, completely like off the reservation like

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