Francois Truffaut
You’d be hard pressed to find someone who was more in love with cinema than François Truffaut. Best known for films like The 400 Blows (1959), Jules et Jim (1960), and Day for Night (1973), Truffaut was a self-taught filmmaker who believed that cinema should come first before anything else.
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It was a Yamaha grand piano. It was 6’2” long in ebony, with that glorious bell-like tone and responsive action. Best investment I ever made. I played it all the time. My kids took piano lessons and they played it all the time. I especially liked playing it while dinner was being made and everyone else was watching TV or reading. In 2007, with our family drowning in financial woes, I ended up selling the piano. One of the worst days of my life was watching that piano getting loaded up and driven away.
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From The Hours, to The NeverEnding Story, to Adaptation, cinema has helped us peer into the secret world of authors and their creative process. But film can do that in ways that are more moving. Now imagine that a book about moviemaking that went on to influence some of film’s greatest legends has its own amazing backstory told in a riveting documentary. That documentary exists, and it’s called Hitchcock/Truffaut.
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