Truffaut on the Auteur Theory
Full interview available in the Criterion Collection special edition of Jules and Jim: http://www.criterion.com/films/218-jules-and-jim
See also...
Explore...
Vertigo video essay - cinematic influence
Is Vertigo the greatest film ever made?
House of Flying Daggers - flashcards
Under the Skin - Film Form, Narrative and Ideology
World of Wong Kar Wei - go 7 minutes and 13 seconds in!
New...
WAR HORSE, Norwich Theatre Royal, Thursday 6th November 2025
Discover...
Auteur Theory Examinations GCE Film Studies ZEN Business Studies GCSE Drama Coursework Buster Keaton YouTube Health and Social Care Modernism Hitchcock Year 7 A Level Drama Under The Skin Economics Student Information Hartismere Spike Lee Test
Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.
We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.
However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!
Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.
If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...