Day for Night [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Fran?ois Truffaut

Overview

This film details the making of a drama called "Meet Pamela" about the tragedy that follows when a French man introduces his parents to his British wife. Director Fran?ois Truffaut satirizes his own films with "Meet Pamela"'s overwrought storyline, but the real focus is on the chaos behind the scenes.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/18/2015
UPC:	0715515154215
Original Release:	1973
Rating:	PG
Source:	THE CRITERION COLLECTION, INC
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:56:00
Sales rank:	9,861

Special Features

New visual essay by filmmaker :: kogonada; New interviews with Glenn and assistant editor Martine Barraqu?; New interview with film scholar Dudley Andrew; Documentary on the film from 2003, featuring film scholar Annette Insdorf; Archival interviews with director Fran?ois Truffaut, editor Yann Dedet, and actors Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nathalie Baye, Jacqueline Bisset, Dani, and Bernard Menez; Archival television footage about the film, including footage of Truffaut on the set; Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jacqueline Bisset	Julie
Jean-Pierre Aumont	Alexandre
Valentina Cortese	Severine
Jean-Pierre Leaud	Alphonse
Alexandra Stewart	Stacey
Jean Champion	Bertrand
Nathalie Baye	Joelle
Gaston Joly	Lajoie
Dani	Lilianna
Bernard Menez	Bernard, the Prop Man
Jean-Francois Stevenin	1st Assistant Director
Nike Arrighi	Odile, the Makeup Girl
Zenaide Rossi	Mme. Lajoie
David Markham	Dr. Nelson, Julie's Husband
Maurice Seveno	Television Reporter
Christophe Vesque	Boy with Cane in Dream Sequences
Graham Greene	English Insurance Broker
Marcel Berbert	French Insurance Broker
Fran?ois Truffaut	Director Ferrand
Henry Graham	Insurer
Jean Panisse	Arthur
Marc Boyle	Actor
Walter Bal	Walter (Cinematographer)
Pierre Zucca	Actor
Georges Delerue	Composer

Technical Credits

Fran?ois Truffaut

Jean-Louis Richard

Suzanne Schiffman

Marcel Berbert	Producer
Fran?ois Truffaut	Screenwriter
Jean-Louis Richard	Screenwriter
Suzanne Schiffman	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

A delightful love letter to the cinema by the great French filmmaker François Truffaut, La nuit américaine (Day for Night) is one of the best movies about making movies. Focusing on the backstage intrigues of an eccentric group of actors and technicians, Truffaut, a master of shifting tone, effortlessly guides the film from comedy to pathos and back again. It doesn't matter that the characters are making a film that is, from all available evidence, an utter stinker; La nuit américaine suggests that filmmaking, even hack filmmaking, is an inherently noble pursuit. Though he's careful not to downplay the more chaotic and even dangerous aspects of life in the film business, Truffaut clearly adores the heightened reality on display, both in front of the camera and behind it. Making a film is the only way that these characters (and by extension Truffaut) can be happy. Adding significantly to the film's pleasures are Georges Delerue's wistful score and the brilliant ensemble acting, most notably New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud as the neurotic young star Alphonse; Valentina Cortese as the brittle, alcoholic Sévérine; and Truffaut himself, playing the beleaguered director. A huge international success in its original run, the film won the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar of 1973 and landed nominations for Truffaut, Cortese, and the screenplay -- all rare accomplishments for a foreign-language film -- as well as New York Film Critics Circle and British Academy awards as the best film of the year.

From White to Yellow is a big book in every way. The product of immense research, it is an exceptionally ambitious work that makes a string of innovative and far-reaching arguments. Even more strikingly, it is simply the first of a planned two-volume series that, once completed, will span over six hundred years of European interactions with Japan. ... The scale of the task and the depth of the research invite a comparison to Donald Lach’s Asia in the Making of Europe, a groundbreaking series that can best be described as an almost supernatural feat of scholarship. … Overall the work is a significant achievement that should be read by anyone working in the field. It moves Japan from the margins to the very center of discussions over the development of early modern racial discourse, making a powerful case for the importance of the European encounter with Japan. Japan represented a problem for Europeans, and Kowner brilliantly dissects the varied ways in which they struggled to deal with it in the early modern period.” Monumenta Nipponica

“A path-breaking book, rich in insights and extraordinary well researched, with a huge bibliography covering works in twelve languages. Kowner has meticulously explored the ramifications and details of encounters between Europeans and the various Others. [From White to Yellow] is unsurpassed in its careful examination of European writings on Japan.” Journal of World History

“A remarkable scholarly achievement. It throws valuable light on evolving European attitudes to race and to racial hierarchies and demonstrates how they were filtered through different social mechanisms – religion, trade, power.” Ethnic and Racial Studies

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