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DVD : Day for NightIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Nike Arrighi, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Walter Bal, Nathalie Baye, Jacqueline Bisset directed by: Francois Truffaut  List Price: $19.98 Amazon.com's Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790775678 Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790775670 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 18, 2003 Running Time: 115 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: September 07, 1973 Sales Rank: 11745 MPN: WARD24079D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: The leading lady is recovering from a nervous breakdown, another performer is soused on the set, unions threaten to walk, shooting must finish before the insurance lapses and a cat can't hit its mark. Is this any way to make a film? FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT's sly, humorous OscarO-winning Best Foreign Language Film (1973) that speaks the language of everyone who loves movies. JACQUELINE BISSET, JEAN-PIERRE AUMONT, VALENTINA CORTESE, NATHALIE BAYE and Truffaut star. Amazon.com essential video: François Truffaut's lavish and fun 1973 comedy-drama about a film production is a clever hall of mirrors, with Truffaut himself playing a director, and his most important actor in real life, Jean-Pierre Léaud (The 400 Blows), portraying Jacqueline Bisset's immature costar. Day for Night is full of tales undoubtedly told out of school and repeated here in camouflage, and one can't help but be impressed with the stylistic and technical means by which Truffaut captures the adventurousness of a full-budget shoot. The cast is very good all around, with actors in some cases playing fictional thespians and in other cases playing members of the crew. A sequence set to thrilling music by Georges Delerue celebrates the whole art of filmmaking as seen from an editor's perspective--it makes one want to drop everything and shoot a film of one's own. --Tom Keogh Average Rating:
 Rating: - Funny, witty and charming; this'll make you want to make a movie...It may not be as sublimely rich and ultimately haunting as Federico Fellini's `8 ½' but truth be told `La Nuit Americaine' is an astonishing film that is as clever as it is honest in its depiction of the art of filmmaking. Director Francois Truffaut plays Ferrand, the director of the production `May I Introduce Pamela?' which stars an American actress named Julie. The film follows Ferrand's struggles with his cast, which include the diva who can't remember her lines, Severine as well ... Read More Rating:  - Great movie about how to make a movieThis is a wonderful love letter to the movies from Francois Truffaut who not only directs but also delivers a terrific performance as a movie director. Truffaut's character is directing what seems to be a fairly banal love triangle story. The very first scene is magical. We see a Paris street with a cafe, a square, people walking their dogs, chatting, cars driving by -- the camera picks up a couple of the characters and you wonder who the film will be about. Then someone shouts "cut" and we realize ... Read More Rating: - Outstanding!!!"Day for Night" is the 4th or 5th movie by Francois Truffaut that I have seen. The other movies were good, some even very good, but I came away from them with the impression that they were over-rated. If anything, I thought "Day for Night" was under-rated. It has a subject matter that had me sceptical; a movie made about making movies. I have seen a number of movies on that subject ("8 1/2", "Contempt", etc) and I have certainly read more than enough books where the author makes himself (or herself) ... Read More Rating:  - OkIn his films he shows considerably more technical skill, overall, than his great rival, Jean-Luc Godard; but even when Godard woefully misfires, as in some of his early films, he's at least striving for something. Truffaut, by comparison, likes shiny, pretty things, and anything that disturbs that safe universe is averse to him. Thus, his 116 minute long, 1973 filmic take, Day For Night (La Nuit Américaine), on the behind the scenes goings on at the making of a movie amount to little, as neither the exterior ... Read More Rating: - Delicate and volatile relationships on the set -- Truffaut celebrates the triumph and struggle behind cinemaDay for Night has not aged quite as well as some of Truffaut's other films, since it feels like an homage to a bygone era, but that is partly because it has influenced so many subsequent portrayals of what goes on behind the scenes during the making of a film, and it is partly because the filmmakers wanted to make an homage to an older style of filmmaking. Tom di Cillo's "Living in Oblivion" for example is the American indie version of Day for Night -- more cynical, even more funny, but not nearly so complex ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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