![]() Truffaut went from runaway schoolboy to bad-boy Cahiers du Cinema critic to wildly acclaimed filmmaker before the age of 27, and passed away of a brain tumor aged only 52 -consequently, his career can sometimes seem brief if brilliant one. We’ve expanded that feature herein to 15 titles, listed chronologically (yes, we are shaping up for a full retrospective at some point). So even though we ran an Essentials feature last year to celebrate the Blu-Ray re-release of “ Jules et Jim,” we tend to jump at any chance to write about Truffaut. Though every cinephile’s favorite label already includes a smattering from the French New Wave legend, most notably “ Jules Et Jim” and the Antoine Doinel series, today sees the release of a new edition of “ The Soft Skin,” an early, often-undervalued film by the filmmaker. Any day bringing a new Francois Truffaut film to the Criterion Collection is a good one, so it follows that today is a good day.
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