La Nuit Américaine (Day for Night)

by Roger Crittenden

Overview

This intimate book draws extensively on research in the archives of Francois Truffaut's company, Les Films du Carrosse, and on interviews with many of La Nuit américaine cast and crew. They bear witness to Truffaut's passion for film.

La Nuit américaine (Day for Night) is Truffaut's hymn of joy to the cinema, which charts the pleasures and pains enjoyed or endured by the cast and crew of a film as it is being shot in the Victorine Studios in Nice. It won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1973.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781838716714
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	07/25/2019
Series:	BFI Film Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Roger Crittenden is the author of two books on film editing and is Senior Tutor in Editing at the National Film and Television School in England, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Bazin's Mayonnaise
Les Films du Carrosse
Genesis of the Film
Creating the Script
From Script to Screen
An Anatomy of the Film
Postscript
Notes
Credits