Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300269125 Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6300269124 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: February 05, 2003 Running Time: 115 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: September 07, 1973 Sales Rank: 15115
Amazon.com essential video: François Truffaut's lavish and fun 1973 comedy-drama about a film production is a clever hall of mirrors, with Truffaut himself playing a director, and his most important actor in real life, Jean-Pierre Léaud (The 400 Blows), portraying Jacqueline Bisset's immature costar. Day for Night is full of tales undoubtedly told out of school and repeated here in camouflage, and one can't help but be impressed with the stylistic and technical means by which Truffaut captures the adventurousness of a full-budget shoot. The cast is very good all around, with actors in some cases playing fictional thespians and in other cases playing members of the crew. A sequence set to thrilling music by Georges Delerue celebrates the whole art of filmmaking as seen from an editor's perspective--it makes one want to drop everything and shoot a film of one's own. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - Funny, witty and charming; this'll make you want to make a movie...
It may not be as sublimely rich and ultimately haunting as Federico Fellini's `8 ½' but truth be told `La Nuit Americaine' is an astonishing film that is as clever as it is honest in its depiction of ... Read More
Rating: - Great movie about how to make a movie
This is a wonderful love letter to the movies from Francois Truffaut who not only directs but also delivers a terrific performance as a movie director. Truffaut's character is directing what seems ... Read More
Rating: - Outstanding!!!
"Day for Night" is the 4th or 5th movie by Francois Truffaut that I have seen. The other movies were good, some even very good, but I came away from them with the impression that they were over-rated. ... Read More
Rating: - Ok
In his films he shows considerably more technical skill, overall, than his great rival, Jean-Luc Godard; but even when Godard woefully misfires, as in some of his early films, he's at least striving for ... Read More
Rating: - Delicate and volatile relationships on the set -- Truffaut celebrates the triumph and struggle behind cinema
Day for Night has not aged quite as well as some of Truffaut's other films, since it feels like an homage to a bygone era, but that is partly because it has influenced so many subsequent portrayals of what ... Read More
- Great movie about how to make a movie
- Ok