FRENCH NEW WAVE--Reading Assignment! Truffaut, "A Certain Tendency"

We're putting aside Woody Allen, and starting on the FRENCH NEW WAVE. Since our next meeting isn't until December 5 because of Thanksgiving, I think we should start off right by reading François Truffaut's seminal essay "A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema," one of the founding documents of the French New Wave, published in Cahiers du Cinéma 31 (1954). If you don't know, these French theorists and filmmakers in the 1950s invented the very idea that the director is (or can be) the "auteur" of the movie, and the French New Wave has been hugely influential in subsequent cinema, felt to this day. So anyway, let's see what Truffaut has to say, then we'll start with probably the most famous New Wave movie, Breathless (À Bout de Souffle) by Godard. I'll list that separately. We'll have to watch 400 Blows (Truffaut), and 2 or 3 Things I Know about Her (Godard), plus a few more.

Some of these movies might be more difficult than most movies we've seen, so be prepared!

Here's a link to a PDF of the article:
https://catalogimages.wiley.com/images/db/pdf/9781405153331.excerpt.pdf

NO MEETING for this "meeting," we'll meet on December 5 at Leaning Tower.