Day for Night (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD) PG
A movie for people who love movies
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 18, 2015
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jacqueline Bisset & Jean-Pierre Léaud | |
Performer: | Jean Champion, Valentina Cortese, François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dani, Alexandra Stewart, Nathalie Baye, David Markham & Graham Greene | |
Directed by | François Truffaut | |
Screenplay by | François Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard & Suzanne Schiffman | |
Composition by | Georges Delerue | |
Cinematography by | Pierre-William Glenn |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1973 -
Best Foreign Language Film: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 8/10 --
A sometimes exasperated, sometimes melancholic meditation on the artistic process, Day for Night is one of the greatest love letters to filmmaking ever made.
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The Retro Set
Rating: 4/5 --
It's a hilarious and informative movie, and in the pantheon of films about filmmaking, it strikes a neat balance between the operatic neuroses of '8 1/2' and the warm, pastel-hued nostalgia of 'Singin' in the Rain'.
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Time Out
It is a Pirandellian affair, an elegiac celebration of a dying kind of cinema, a meditation on the connection between film and life by Truffaut...
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Guardian
Rating: 4/4 --
A poem in praise of making movies. Not good movies, not bad movies -- movies.
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Chicago Sun-Times
...DAY FOR NIGHT, Francois Truffaut's heartfelt homage to the joy and pain of making movies, is just as bracing yet touching as it was when it was first released...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Aggravating to the more seriously-minded auteurs of the French New Wave, Truffaut's film is nevertheless a deeply personal, warm and human tribute to the passion of cinema.
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CineVue
...A poem in praise of making movies....Truffaut's film is like a little anthology of anecdotes from movie sets...
Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
François Truffaut's DAY FOR NIGHT is the French master's tender, humorous love letter to the cinema. Stepping in front of the camera, Truffaut plays Ferrand, a director who's embarking on his latest production, a melodrama entitled MEET PAMELA. As the cast and crew convene at the Victorine Studio in Nice, a family is formed, but unlike most families, this one is only temporary. There's the gorgeous American actress (Jacqueline Bisset), the love-struck young lead (Jean-Pierre Leaud), the aging alcoholic (Valentina Cortese), and the unheralded crew (grips, technicians, etc.). Along the way, those involved in the production start to feel as if the events in their real lives are coming straight out of the movies, filled with romance, tragedy, melodrama, and a dash of slapstick.
As with the best works of art, Truffaut's film doesn't exist merely to provide viewers with a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the tumultuous craft of filmmaking. While Truffaut doesn't shy away from revealing some of cinema's most magical tricks--such as how action sequences are shot and how artificial snow is created--the film also works on a more universal level, addressing issues to which everyone can relate. But ultimately, the moviemaking sequences are what make DAY FOR NIGHT such an unforgettable experience.
As with the best works of art, Truffaut's film doesn't exist merely to provide viewers with a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the tumultuous craft of filmmaking. While Truffaut doesn't shy away from revealing some of cinema's most magical tricks--such as how action sequences are shot and how artificial snow is created--the film also works on a more universal level, addressing issues to which everyone can relate. But ultimately, the moviemaking sequences are what make DAY FOR NIGHT such an unforgettable experience.