The 400 Blows (#5) (Criterion Collection)[USA]

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Release Date: April 8, 2014
Purchase: Amazon

France
1959
99 minutes
Black and White
2.35:1
French

François Truffaut’s first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut’s cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), The 400 Blows sensitively re-creates the trials of Truffaut’s own childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, and petty crime. The film marked Truffaut’s passage from leading critic to trailblazing auteur of the French New Wave.

Disc Features:

1. New, restored high-definition digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
2. New digital transfer of Antoine and Colette (The Adventures of Antoine Doinel box set only)
3. Two audio commentaries, one by cinema professor Brian Stonehill and the other by François Truffaut’s lifelong friend Robert Lachenay
4. Rare audition footage of Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick Auffay, and Richard Kanayan
5. Newsreel footage from the film’s showing at Cannes
6. Excerpt from a 1965 interview with Truffaut in which he discusses his youth, his critical writings, and the origins of the character Antoine Doinel
7. Excerpt from a 1960 interview with Truffaut about the global reception of The 400 Blows and his own critical view of the film
8. Trailer
9. PLUS: An essay by film scholar Annette Insdorf

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Trailers:

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