Truffaut
Americannoun
noun
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Hollywood icons like François Truffaut, Norman Jewison and even Robert Redford couldn’t get it made.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025
Perhaps the French gatekeepers had in mind their own storied history of obsessives-turned-filmmakers like François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard and took a shine to the deeply ingrained movie-ness of it all.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025
As well as continuing to make budget movies, he also began handling films made by distinguished foreign film-makers, including Francois Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini and introducing them to an American audience.
From BBC • May 12, 2024
François Truffaut once wrote that “war films, even pacifist, even the best, willingly or not, glorify war and render it in some way attractive.”
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2023
But only two pages later, she details her discovery of Francois Truffaut and the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma as she studies abroad in Paris.
From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2022
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