Part II of AFI's François Truffaut retrospective includes several titles that have become hard to see, including the original uncut version of TWO ENGLISH GIRLS, the terrific neo-noir CONFIDENTIALLY YOURS with Fanny Ardant, as well as one of the all-time great movies about moviemaking, DAY FOR NIGHT. Considered "later" films in Truffaut's filmography, as a whole these films confirm that the prolific filmmaker was working at the height of his creativity when he died in 1984, at age 52.

Special thanks to Janus Films, the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for making this series possible.

AFI Member passes will be accepted at all films in the Truffaut series.

DAY FOR NIGHT
[La nuit américaine]

Arguably the best movie about making movies ever made, ardent in its cinema love, an unabashed valentine to the people who make the movies, and cleverly meticulous in its depictions of the ins and outs, mundane realities and the moments of magic that take place on a movie set. Truffaut plays a Truffaut-like director juggling multiple crises, personal and professional, as he struggles to complete his film shooting in the south of France. Jacqueline Bisset is his American name-brand star, Jean-Pierre Leaud his love-struck French lead.

DIR/SCR François Truffaut; SCR Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman; PROD Marcel Berbert. France/Italy, 1973, color and b&w, 115 min. In English and French with English subtitles. RATED PG

Saturday, July 3, 3:00; Sunday, July 4, 5:10; Monday, July 5, 5:10; Tuesday, July 6, 4:30; Wednesday, July 7, 7:00; Thursday, July 8, 4:30

TWO ENGLISH GIRLS
[Les deux anglaises et le continent]
Extended director's cut!

Truffaut's second adaptation of an Henri-Pierre Roché novel (the first was JULES AND JIM) again revolves around a love triangle. The players are French art critic Claude, spirited English traveler Anne and Anne's younger sister Muriel, with whom Claude begins a tortured on-again, off-again affair, some of the time taking up with Anne. The fate of the three during their to-ing and fro-ing between England and France is that from afar each longs for at least one of the others, and the exquisite ache of separation is as vital as the in-person passions.

DIR/SCR François Truffaut; SCR Jean Gruault, based on the novel by Henri-Pierre Roché; PROD Marcel Berbert. France, 1971, color, 130 min. In English and French with English subtitles. NOT RATED

Saturday, July 10, 6:20; Sunday, July 11, 6:20

THE STORY OF ADELE H.
[L'histoire d'Adèle H.]
35th Anniversary!

Based on the long-lost journal of Victor Hugo's daughter, who falls in love with a young English lieutenant in the late 18th century and follows him to Nova Scotia and then Barbados with a determined idée fixe of marriage. The lieutenant coldly rebuffs her advances, but this only strengthens her ardor. Isabelle Adjani, in her first major role, marvelously conveys the single-minded, self-destructive passion of this woman who moves from deception to madness, a "wild child" moving away from humanity to a state of total isolation. A richly atmospheric film.

DIR/SCR François Truffaut; SCR Jean Gruault, Suzanne Schiffman, based on the story by Frances V. Guille and the diary of Adèle Hugo; PROD Marcel Berbert, Claude Miller. France, 1975, color, 96 min. In English and French with English subtitles. RATED PG

Saturday, July 17, 6:20; Sunday, July 18, 6:20

SMALL CHANGE
[L'argent de poche]
New 35mm Print!

"A comedy, a romance, a mystery--in a word: childhood--captured, distilled and transformed effortlessly from sketchbook to symphony in the hands of a master named François Truffaut." -- Wes Anderson. Truffaut's episodic narrative follows the adventures of a dozen schoolchildren in a provincial town as the school year winds down and summer begins. Truffaut uses a patient observational style, empathetic and warmhearted, the gentle flow of events occasionally punctuated by moments of poignancy. "Truffaut's series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity--a poetic comedy that's really funny." -- Pauline Kael

DIR/SCR/PROD François Truffaut; SCR Suzanne Schiffman. France, 1976, color, 104 min. In French with English subtitles. RATED PG

Friday, July 23, 4:30; Saturday, July 24, 5:45; Sunday, July 25, 4:45

THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN
[L'homme qui aimait les femmes]

Truffaut's own storied seductions of nearly all of his leading ladies would seem to provide much of the source material for this film. Charles Denner plays a sensitive Lothario whose zest for pursuit and delight in conquests always gives way to a morose disappointment in the morning. Brigitte Fossey shines as his latest (perhaps last?) love, a book editor who knows him better than he knows himself.

DIR/SCR/PROD François Truffaut; SCR Michel Fermaud, Suzanne Schiffman; PROD Marcel Berbert. France, 1977, color and b&w, 120 min. In French with English subtitles. NOT RATED

Saturday, July 31, 1:00; Tuesday, August 3, 7:00

LOVE ON THE RUN
[L'amour en fuite]

At its US premiere at AFI, Truffaut described this film as a recapitulation and the conclusion of the Antoine Doinel cycle. Twenty years after THE 400 BLOWS, Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) remains an adolescent at heart. In the week following his divorce from Christine he relives his former affairs, meeting in turn his ex-wife (Claude Jade), his first unhappy love (Marie-France Pisier, who co-scripted), his tough-minded mistress (Dani) and an odd fellow, M. Lucien (Julien Bertheau), who was the lover of Antoine's mother. A shamelessly happy ending throws Antoine into the arms of the delicious Sabine (Dorothée).

DIR/SCR/PROD François Truffaut; SCR Marie-France Pisier, Jean Aurel, Suzanne Schiffman. France, 1979, color and b&w, 94 min. In French with English subtitles. RATED PG

Sunday, August 8, 5:30; Monday, August 9, 7:00; Tuesday, August 10, 7:00

THE GREEN ROOM
[La chambre verte]

Adapted from short stories by Henry James, this film is an elegant requiem that chronicles an obsession with death. Set in provincial France 10 years after the first World War, it explores the guilt felt by a man who survived the war and whose wife died young. Believing that the dead can live on in the memories of those who remain, he creates a shrine. Truffaut plays the man with deep feeling and sincerity, and his direction is masterful, creating an eerie world linking the dead and the living. Stunningly photographed by Néstor Almendros, it is one of the least seen and most affecting works of Truffaut's later career.

DIR/SCR/PROD François Truffaut; SCR Jean Gruault, based on stories by Henry James. France, 1978, color, 94 min. In French with English subtitles. RATED PG

Friday, August 13, 6:30; Saturday, August 14, 5:45

SUCH A GORGEOUS KID LIKE ME
[Une belle fille comme moi]

Convicted multiple-murderess Bernadette Lafont recounts her exploits with gusto and verve to enraptured sociologist Andre Dusollier, who, having fallen under her spell, seeks to prove her innocent of her last crime. Truffaut's most farcical film makes a pastiche of the work of his heroes Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks, and Lafont gives a lively turn as the comical femme fatale.

DIR/SCR François Truffaut; SCR Jean-Loup Dabadie, based on the novel by Henry Farrell; PROD Marcel Berbert. France, 1972, color, 98 min. In French with English subtitles. RATED R

Monday, August 16, 9:00; Wednesday, August 18, 7:00

THE LAST METRO
[Le dernier métro]
30th Anniversary!

Backstage drama as German Jewish theater director Heinz Bennett, having previously quit Berlin for Paris, hides in his Montmartre theater basement during the Nazi occupation, directing his new play by giving notes to actress wife Catherine Deneuve. Deneuve has her work cut out for her, as she maintains the story that her husband fled to South America, outwits nosy Gestapo agents, caters to a powerful, pro-Nazi theater critic, fends off amorous leading man Gerard Depardieu and delivers the hit play that will save them from bankruptcy. Winner of 10 Césars, including Best Picture and Best Director.

DIR/SCR/PROD François Truffaut; SCR Suzanne Schiffman. France, 1980, color, 131 min. In French and German with English subtitles. RATED PG

Friday, August 20, 6:45; Sunday, August 22, 6:45; Wednesday, August 25, 6:30

THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR
[La femme d'à côté]

Suburban family man Gérard Depardieu has his world turned upside down when he meets the new neighbors and recognizes the wife, Fanny Ardant, as the woman with whom he once had a torrid, ultimately disastrous love affair. Keeping their past a secret from their respective spouses, the two's wary politeness around each other gives way to obsession and all-consuming passion, with tragic consequences. Ardant, in her screen debut, alternates reserved toughness with unhinged abandon, impressively matching megastar Depardieu's volcanic intensity.

DIR/SCR/PROD François Truffaut; SCR Suzanne Schiffman, Jean Aurel. France, 1981, color, 106 min. In French with English subtitles. RATED R

Saturday, August 28, 6:00; Sunday, August 29, 6:00; Wednesday, September 1, 6:45

CONFIDENTIALLY YOURS
[Vivement dimanche!]

Truffaut's final film once again pays homage to the director's favorite filmmaker, Alfred Hitchcock, with Fanny Ardant as a sleuthing secretary out to clear boss Jean-Louis Trintignant from charges of murdering his faithless wife and her lover. Ardant, who secretly pines for her boss, gives a memorable performance, both comic and passionate. The gorgeous black and white cinematography is by longtime Truffaut collaborator Néstor Almendros.

DIR/SCR/PROD François Truffaut; SCR Suzanne Schiffman, Jean Aurel, based on The Long Saturday Night by Charles Williams; PROD Armand Barbault. France, 1983, b&w, 110 min. In French with English subtitles. RATED PG

Saturday, September 4, 5:00; Sunday, September 5, 5:00; Monday, September 6, 1:00