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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Francois Truffaut
In the Sonoran Desert, French scientist Claude Lacombe, his American interpreter, cartographer David Laughlin, and other researchers, discover Flight 19, a squadron of Grumman TBM Avengers that went missing more than 30 years earlier. The planes are intact and function perfectly, but are empty. Investigating one of a series of large-scale power outages, electrical lineman Roy Neary experiences a close encounter with a UFO, when it flies over his truck and lightly burns the side of his face with its bright lights.
In 1962 Hitchcock and Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. The film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time. Hitchcock’s incredibly modern art is elucidated and explained by today’s leading filmmakers: Scorsese, David Fincher, Arnaud Desplechin, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, James Gray, Olivier Assayas, Richard Linklater, Peter Bogdanovich and Paul Schrader.
Based on one of Ray Bradbury’s most famous novels, Fahrenheit 451 came out in 1966, one year after a dystopian film named Alphaville was released. In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, to perform the necessary book burnings.
In a small French town at the close of the 1920s, Julien Davenne, a journalist, grapples with the loss of his wife Julie, who passed away a decade earlier. He carefully assembles all of Julie’s belongings in the green room. However, when a fire ravages the room, he decides to refurbish a small chapel, dedicating it to the memory of Julie and other departed individuals in his life.
In a small French town at the close of the 1920s, Julien Davenne, a journalist, grapples with the loss of his wife Julie, who passed away a decade earlier. He carefully assembles all of Julie’s belongings in the green room. However, when a fire ravages the room, he decides to refurbish a small chapel, dedicating it to the memory of Julie and other departed individuals in his life.
In a small French town at the close of the 1920s, Julien Davenne, a journalist, grapples with the loss of his wife Julie, who passed away a decade earlier. He carefully assembles all of Julie’s belongings in the green room. However, when a fire ravages the room, he decides to refurbish a small chapel, dedicating it to the memory of Julie and other departed individuals in his life.