François Truffaut's The Films of My Life
The Films in My Life (Les Films de ma Vie) is Truffaut’s own selection of more than one hundred essays that range widely over the history of film and pay tribute to Truffaut’s particular heroes, among them Hitchcock, Welles, Chaplin, Renoir, Cocteau, Bergman, and Buñuel.
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Fear Strikes Out (1957)
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.
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The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.
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The Naked Dawn (1955)
Santiago, a jolly modern bandito, has just lost his partner when he happens on the isolated farm of young Manuel and Maria Lopez...
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La Traversée de Paris (1956)
Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.
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