Quentin Tarantino Slams François Truffaut, Calls Filmmaker a ‘Bumbling Amateur’

Adele H is a masterpiece and Isabella Aggiani is extraordinay in it, shame she can almost only ever do that. but he's not wrong. his fims are not well crafted and very boring

Isabella Aggiani?

Pullease. This says more about Tarantino than Truffaut.

Hardly the arbiter of taste. Isn’t his favourite movie jaws? Anyway jules et Jim. Adele h., the 400 blows, the whole antoine series… what is Tarantino talking about - “bumbling ametuer”… he’s just trolling, Surely.

The Wild Child, The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player and Jules and Jims are very accomplished films and Truffaut's first English language film Fahrenheit 451n (1966) has its admirers and I also like Mississippi Mermaid .

He is absolutely ridiculous.

Oh fuck you Quentin:

Shoot the Piano Player

The Bride Wore Black

The 400 Blows

Farenheit 451

Those are just off of the top of my head. I'd rather watch Jules et Jim on repeat for the next year than be forced to watch one of his pieces of utter shit.

Go crash your Pussy Wagon, you overhyped nearly 60 year old adolescent.

I hope martin scorsese schools him!

As great as he is, Tarantino has never come up with anything as poetic as this...

He wrote the screenplay for BREATHLESS, with the goddess Jean Seburg, Quentin, all your screenplay did was beat up Patricia Arquette in TRUE ROMANCE.

While I like some of Tarantino's films, in the end, they're pretty much all the same movie in that the entire movie is some huge gimmick or build up to a twist or reveal from which you are forced to "recontextualize" the preceding movie.

I hope Martin Scorsese shoots him!

I'd like for Isabella Rosselini to shoot him. (not for any real reason, except she's Old School Hollywood Royalty)

I think he just likes to be contrary like his whole schtick about praising b movies…

Yes, he is a perpetual adolescent, and that's what they do.

The 400 Blows is ranked 39th none of Tarantino's films made the cut.

Yes, he’s like Kanye - say crazy shot, get free publicity

R2 Isabella is a french actress who had momentum in the mid 70's and dated Warren Beatty for a while. She was in Ivory' s QUARTET, (very good), and was nominated for an AA for Adele H. I think she died young, or something bad happened to her, she kinda disappeared quickly. She was very pretty

I’ve been moved to laughter and tears various times by truffaut’s movies. There’s something to them. While I enjoy Tarantino films too I can’t say any of them have ever really moved me. I find them exciting and sometimes funny but there’s not the same heart in them.

R18, yes I know who you mean, but it’s Isabelle Adjani, not Isabella Aggiani.

ok R20. My bad . Adjani seems weird though. I'm pretty sure it was pronounced aggiani as in buongiorno

Truffaut was also an influential critic whose book of interviews with Hitchcock is a classic. Maybe this is at the root of Quenty’s inappropriate assault on Truffaut., who’s no longer fashionable, but he wouldn’t dare do it to the Cock.

Day for Night is one of my favorite movies. Even if you don't like foreign films, I think you'd find it a lot of fun.

[quote] but he wouldn’t dare do it to the Cock.

In the article he shades hitchcock too. He says he finds chabrol’s thrillers better than Truffaut and Hitchcock’s films

Who is “the Cock”?

Truffaut and the New Wave created the vocabulary of cinema that made Tarantino possible, even his ripping off of pulp and pop.

I guess these comments showing a lack of depth, education and culture is important to preserve the bad boy, iconoclast image he markets.

Just as well, not every filmmaker can be a Truffaut.

It's a circle of cinematic life.

Autant-Lara had been an essential part of mainstream cinema for 30 years, and he saw new-wave upstarts shoving him aside. François Truffaut, in particular, through the pages of Cahiers du cinema, condemned the "well-made" film or the "cinema du papa" as exemplified by Autant-Lara. Like Marcel Carné, who blamed his lack of acclaim and difficulties in getting films made on "a government too close knit with the Jews", Autant-Lara attacked the "decadent left" and the "Jewish conspiracy", in which he had included the directors that had displaced him - none of whom was Jewish.

Very nice, r9. Bookmarking that.

Tarantino can safely be shelved among the lesser film makers.

The 400 Blows is near perfect and it wasn't created out of bumbling, though a lot of things came together fortuitously. Truffaut made it when he was under 30 years old. It has the slap dash lean mastery of a young artist. Many of Tarantino's flicks are bloated and bombastic.

Tarantino is a bad film maker. That German war movie was uncinematic, overlong and a writer's wantkfest.

If I am in the mood for cartoonish, gratuitous violence, I’d rather spend 90 minutes watching an Italian horror movie from the 80’s than spend three hours sitting through a Tarantino film.

I’m always horrified when I remember how he hijacked the theme from Twisted Nerve for Kill Bill

Oh i like Tarantino. He's got his style. But he's like a Warhol, post modern pastiche playing with pop culture. But he has nothing to say.

Tarantino is overrated. Most of his films are all style and lacking in real substance.

Tarantino & Warhol = Equally parasitic.

So over grandiose aspies idiots like Tarantino and West. Tarantino, no one had the heart to say this to tour face, but once upon a time in Hollywood was a total fucking mediocrity. Great production design without a compelling narrative.

I find myself looking at the body of work of an artist, rather than singling out one or two films. There's an accumulative power and a distinctive voice. That is Truffaut. That is Ingmar Bergman and Robert Altman and Satyajit Ray. They speak to the human condition. I wouldn't put Tarantino in the same category.

Did he also say no one over 32 should be let in the klerbs?

R24, he refers to the truffaut-Hitchcock films, that is, films truffaut did influenced by Hitchcock.

And by the human condition in r38, I mean some filmmakers make you come away thinking about your life, the ones you love, questioning and admiring the world around you. They have transformative power.

What is going on here?

Adjani

Rosellini

Seberg

R41 “ make you come away thinking about your life, the ones you love, questioning and admiring the world around you.” Exactly. Do Tarantino films ever inspire the same thoughts of feelings?

I have seen every Truffaut-directed film. All are good, all are interesting. Some Truffaut films have already been mentioned in this thread so I will mention Mississippi Mermaid, Wild Child, Two English Girls, A Gorgeous Girl Like Me, Small Change, The Man Who Lived Women, The Green Room, The Woman Next Door, and Confidentially Yours. ❤❤❤

^The Man Who *Loved* Women

Thank you, R44. I have an Adele H poster in my living room next to my Belle de Jour poster.

Ahem.

In a fair world, Tarantino would be parking Truffaut's car and not getting a tip.....

And I bet Mr Loudmouth wouldn't be saying this if T was still alive.

So R46 is it Adiani or Aggiani ?

R49. It’s not “Adiani” or “Aggiani”. It’s Adjani.

Tarantino is jealous because Truffaut was a handsome, sexy, sophisticated grown man. Tarantino is an ugly, odd-looking 59-year-old adolescent.

We never saw Truffaut grow old and lose his sex appeal. Tarantino never had much SA to start with, and certainly it's long gone now, as he starts the slide into freakish-looking old man.

Quentin botched the ending of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. big time. There were so many contrivances to get there it ruined an otherwise excellent film. Really painful to watch. He should have taken another year or two of writing it to smooth out what could have been a great film. The problem is when everyone praises you endlessly you become convinced that everything you write is gold.

Why should anybody care what Quentin Tarantino says? He's a crazy, stupid asshole. And he's not good enough to smell Truffaut's turds.

[quote]And by the human condition in [R38], I mean some filmmakers make you come away thinking about your life, the ones you love, questioning and admiring the world around you. They have transformative power.

R38/R41 Thread closed. Thanks for nailing it so poetically.

400 blows is the only film by Truffaut I am familiar with and I totally remember that, it is a movie that I had to think about for days. Tarantino pretends his movies are loving homages to lesser known japanese and chinese movies. Its outright theft in my opinion. How come nobody has ever accused him cultural appropriation? Do people really believe this dude has an ounce of originality in his body?

[quote]I think she died young, or something bad happened to her, she kinda disappeared quickly. She was very pretty

Surely you’re trolling.

R56 lol. Right?

Tarantino, the bozo.

Truffaut was definitely sexy. He was also a pretty good actor. I imagine, combined with his icon status as a director, that must be rouse Tarantino’s insecurities.

Truffaut starred in (at least) three films he directed: Wild Child, Day for Night, and The Green Room. Yes, he was sexy AF.

Fascinating film, based on a true story. The first word the wild child learns to say is "lait" (milk in French). 🍼🥛🐮

Is Quentin taking a lot of drugs and doing interviews again?

His movies are okay when you don't want real movies, you're more in the mood for cartoons - like all the comic book and kid's movies that have been so popular for so many years now. They're fine, have some popcorn - watch it - go do something else, completely unaffected emotionally or intellectually. Entertaining but empty, like the popcorn.

Truffaut has more meat on the bone.

I remember seeing Close Encounters of the Third Kind in the theatre and saying, wait, is that Francois Truffaut? It was a complete surprise.

It's ironic because, like Tarantino, Truffaut was as much a famous lover of movies as a great movie maker. But Truffaut was educated and could write in great depth about movies and Tarantino is basically illiterate. It's a great example of how far mainstream culture has fallen.

Tarantino has BO.

[quote]It's a great example of how far mainstream culture has fallen.

If you think of Tarantino as a B-movie director, like Roger Corman, then, everything's the same as it ever was.

He's just cranky because sandal season is coming to an end.

I forgot that Quentin also cast himself in his films. Truffaut was sexy, and could act, so there, again, is no comparison.

I'd bet every single one of the actresses who worked with Tarantino would have far, far preferred to be in any of Truffaut's instead.

I read and memorized quite a bit of Fahrenheit 451 because of the film, so I'll be that book. Tarantino's always just made me want to rewatch the films he pastiched/stole from.

A shame Truffaut died so young. He was a brilliant filmmaker.

Perhaps Tarantino is getting revenge on behalf of Antonioni:

[quote] Antonioni is the only important director I have nothing good to say about. He bores me; he's so solemn and humorless.

I absolutely love several Truffaut films, but he was himself a cliquish and annoying film critic who dismissed many fine directors out of hand, just as Tarantino dismisses him. He loved to dish it out, so he can take it.

Antonioni and Truffaut had better get in line; Tarantino has trashed Lynch, Godard, Welles, Stone, Kubrick, Fincher, Ford...

...and sorry, R22, he does shade Hitchcock...

[quote]“I’ve always felt that Hitchcock’s acolytes took his cinematic and story ideas further,” Tarantino said. “I love Brian De Palma’s Hitchcock movies. I love Richard Franklin’s and Curtis Hanson’s Hitchcock meditations. I prefer those to actual Hitchcock”.

Hitchcock often left gore and horror to the imagination. This is something Quentin has never been able to do. Totally different types as directors. While I think Hitchcock was more intellectual about his approach Quentin made films that spell everything out for the audience.

The most that is spoken of Tarantino is when trolls like this...

Yes, yes, he does indeed have the ego to believe these things, but what happens, time and time again, when he says things like this, people go back and hate-watch his films again and that of whatever he criticizes.

It creates controversy and buzz, and every college-aged film critic falls for it time and time again.

I love QT and think he’s a genius. But filmmaking and film criticism are two different skill sets.

Quentin is dead wrong about Truffaut. He can not like his films—tastes vary—but to call him a bumbling amateur is just fucking stupid and false on its face.

Tarantino a genius, huh? The bar is low, r76.

R56 not trolling. Google her. She had a nervous breakdown very early in her career, attempted suicide after a horror movie that was supposed to be a Polanski follow-up, but flopped , and a slew of movies in which she served variations of Adele H, and also flopped outside her native country and is semi-retired since. She's a diagnosed BPD, almost unrecognizable through a combination of mental illness + bad plastic surgery, and is currently under investigation for embezzzlement . I knew there was something, but I had her mixed up with Francoise Dorleac, who died early after being discovered by Truffaut. Sad

R78 either way she’s always been in most peoples consciousness in her native France. She’s iconic like deneuve… it just seems arrogant to imply that age disappeared simply because she’s not some big Hollywood star. She did much better in France than most women in Hollywood do.

R79 HI, Isabella

Bonjour, connard!

How very french of you dear, my best to DDL

“ attempted suicide after a horror movie that was supposed to be a Polanski follow-up, but flopped”

I’m assuming you mean Possession (1981) .. or do you mean The Tenant (1976). Any way, Possession won Isabelle the Cannes award for Best Actress as well as the French Oscar. I saw the movie again as a restored 4K restoration in Boston in a packed theatre and the movie has lost none of its power and clearly still has a following.

I was all the rage of 1978.

Tarantino’s films, even the better ones, are like a form of non-nutritive media. You don’t ponder their meaning very long, and the themes are pretty simplistic. There is a cheapness to the guilty pleasure we take seeing villains dispatched (his fight scenes are pretty amazing, particularly In Kill Bill 1 & 2).

There are passages of dialogue that are embarrassingly amateurish, particularly in Kill Bill 2, where Elle and Bill meet up again for their final confrontation, stretched thin with cheesy fanboy comic book conceits.

Separately he looks to have had a lot of work on his face and hair. His skin looks “resurfaced” with lasers and his hair looks dyed. He is not without talent, but he is less interesting than he finds himself. His looks are “unfortunate”. He was also pretty fast and loose with racial characterization, and some viewers (Spike Lee and his ilk) resent that, probably rightly so.

Jackie Brown is probably my favorite film by Tarantino, but the writing was Elmore Leonard. That cast was amazing.

I have 5 French Oscars. More than any actress.

OK froggies, I'm sorry your precious Isabella is a flop, but you have to be grown-ups about it and realize it's not my fault. IF, Instead of screaming on top of her lungs, rolling her porcelain eyes as if she was having an epileptic seizure and flipping her little arms around in every single movie, she had invested in a few acting lessons, she might have had a decent international career.

^unhinged

[quote] IF, Instead of screaming on top of her lungs, rolling her porcelain eyes as if she was having an epileptic seizure and flipping her little arms around in every single movie, she had invested in a few acting lessons, she might have had a decent international career.

Truer words never spoken

Tarantino also wears a wig.

R78 some frog-hating Ameritard tragically broadcasting his deplorable ignorance. Bravo!

R91 allez faire cuire l'oeuf

What the hell is a "Polanski follow-up"? You can't even select the right words. SUBPAR IQ.

Only two French actresses have ever been nominated for an Oscar twice: Marion Cotillard and Isabelle Adjani. At the age of 20, Adjani became the youngest Best Actress nominee at that time (1976). Despite only being 19 at the time of filming, Adjani is remarkably poised, her assured performance belying her young age. She had been working as a classical actress in France's prestigious Comédie-Française when Truffaut cast her. Hardly the stuff that makes one a flop.

Isabelle has been busy in current months promoting her new film directed by François Ozon, one of France's most acclaimed modern directors. Sure, she's kooky, she's had too much work done, and she works infrequently now - who cares? The work speaks for itself.

Googled her some more. She flopped in a stage version of Opening night recently, the reviews in NYC were so bad she had to cancel the australian leg of the tour, and then flopped again in a play where she was supposed to play Monroe (sure, Isabella, you're 75 yo, but whatever) . she's nowhere near Deneuve in terms of stardom, she's not even as popular as Sophie Marceau, in her own country, the Frogland. And if the bar is set by Marion Cotillard, of "die like marion Cotillard fame", well, it's such a low bar, it's actually on the floor. I don't know why the frogs invade this board every summer with their flop actors , they have zero sense of humor, and are merely just fun to set on fire and watch blowing to pieces . It's like clay shooting really. Just try this: Romy Schneider was moche and a shit actress...3...2...1...

"How many close-ups of feet did Truffaut include in his amateurish movies? Virtually none! What a hack."

R95 you realise of course that romy Schneider wasn’t a french actress, she appeared in french movies as well as international ones. She was Austrian born.

Isabelle may not have the career of deneuve but she does have a similar name recognition. She probably could have a bigger career if she’d really wanted it, I’m sure she’s turned down a lot.

R97, there’s no use in replying to that troll anymore. But yes, you are correct.

Aggiani troll = 2pts. R97 + R98 = 0

Truffaut tried to bang Isabelle, as he banged all of his leading ladies, but she refused.

R95, digging in deeper, spiraling. Hilarious.

Thanks to you OP I re-watched DAY FOR NIGHT. entertaining movie. Gorgeous Jean-Pierre Aumont plays eldergay/sugardaddy. Jackie Bisset is very pleasant. Shallow, but a nice watch. There are so many things that would bever pass mustard today on a movie set. Truffaut bullying Alenxandra Stewart into a bathing suit when it's not in the script and she doesn't want to, Bisset climbing a wobbling 150 ft ladder without any kind of safety to get to the set . It's a time capsule. I enjoyed it. Aumont 's young boyfriend in the movie was quite dishy. He died young apparently. Any of the froggies here could share some info on him ?

Twerp.

[quote]Bumbling amateur?

Says the idiot who made "Inglourious Basterds" a complete failure of a movie.

Stupid twit.

He’s just courting attention.

God forbid, he could make anything comparable.

He’s always been an attention seeking mess in a bad wig.

I don't particularly like Truffaut, but Cretin Tarantino's films are so bad

Ah, go lick a foot.

QT uses other cultures (chiefly Japanese and Black) to fatten up his weak scripts. And he uses so many curse words as crutches, you'd think his typewriter had muscular dystrophy.

Tarantino twerp is lucky. Studied vids while working in store . Cobbled together pulp fiction and got travolta . Timing. Inflated ego. Got others to co sign his bs. Geniuses like Harvey Weinstein

He is sooooo dumb to criticize Francois Truffaut. Appalling

I am very much a fan of Tarantino, but at times he makes wrong and baffling comments. Truffaut is easily among the 10 best film directors of all time.

Francois Truffaut died in 1984.

How does this matter?

[quote]There are so many things that would bever pass mustard today

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Mr. Tarantino, mine is a two-part question:

First, what do you think of Truffaut?

And

Why did you try to kill Uma Thurman in an outrageously unsafe vehicle on-set, then withhold the footage of the death-defying scene for decades so she could not seek damages from the producers?

[quote]That German war movie was uncinematic, overlong and a writer's wankfest.

I like some Tarantino, but I agree wholeheartedly with you here.

[quote]If I am in the mood for cartoonish, gratuitous violence, I’d rather spend 90 minutes watching an Italian horror movie from the 80’s than spend three hours sitting through a Tarantino film.

Agreed.

[quote]I’m always horrified when I remember how he hijacked the theme from Twisted Nerve for Kill Bill

He also took the theme from Sette Note in Nero and used it in Kill Bill too. Apparently he was quite close to doing a remake of that film at one point.

Only insecure will slate others in their profession.

Those who are confident and happy with their work don't feel the need to bring down others. Picasso was always effusive in his praise of those who went before him.

QT is fetishistic hack. Tacky fucker.

Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel cycle is imperfect and sometimes ridiculous, but wonderful. Jean-Pierre Léaud, as Antoine, starts out in Les quatre cent coups as almost a feral child (not quite l’enfant sauvage, but close), a stand-in for Truffaut himself. The series is messy and imperfect, but is an exploration of the human condition in the twentieth century via that one outsider character, played throughout the series of films by the same actor from childhood into near-middle age. He grows and learns and experiences life. He’s a real person.

Tarantino deals in pastiche with no feeling. His films are clever, I suppose, and I enjoy them, but they’re the cinematic equivalent of junk food. Tarantino can take several seats.

This is a scene from my favourite, Baisers volés, where (the absolutely fucking adorable) Antoine clumsily attempts bourgeois domesticity:

^ and this is the song by Charles Trenet from which the title is derived!

Dear eldergays, I need your advice as I'm unfamiliar with Truffaut. What film of his should I watch?

I saw 'Jules et Jim' and 'Fahrenheit' as a teenager but they didn't make much impression on me.

I've heard that 'Day for Night' and the Hitchcockian 'Confidentially Yours' would be the most entertaining.

^ I know, also, that Truffaut borrowed heavily from Jean Vigo’s « Zéro de conduit » when he made « Les quatre cent coups », but he always acknowledged that and never tried to pretend he produced it out of nowhere, ffs! Fuck Tarantino, that video-store-working, foot-fetishist asshole!

Tarantino is very very repetitive as a director. He simply rehashes Italian Spaghetti Westerns, 70s and 80s blaxploitation and samurai movies. His characters are flat and the plots are thin. It's all just a scrapbook of cool clothes, poses and fight scenes. You see no emotion after you finished anything he's made. Just dumb fun movies that are pretty to look at. He's arrogant and acts like he's making high art. I prefer Robert Rodriguez actually for the El Mariachi trilogy, From Dusk to Dawn and Machete.

*feel

"Shoot the Piano Player" and "The 400 Blows" are my favorites. I didn't like "Confidentially Yours," but "The Woman Next Door" (his next to last movie) is very sad and disturbing.

R119 - Les quatre cent coups/400 Blows, maybe?

I loved L’enfant sauvauge/Wild Child, but it’s quite spare and didactic (with good reason - like, that’s the entire point).

I’ve never seen Jules et Jim, which is probably a travesty?! It’s a classic. Also Day For Night/La Nuit américaine I’ve never seen, but is well-regarded.

I’ve read the screenplay for Fahrenheit 451 and essays about it but not seen it. I wonder if it’s like Godard’s « Alphaville » or is more human…?

^ Yes, very much like 'Alphaville'; cold, uninvolving, a cast of lifeless automatons.

The only pluses were 1. color and 2. the Bernard Herrmann score.

Ah - thank you. R125! I don’t know anyone else who’s actually seen “Alphaville”! i saw it by myself in my university’s cinema. I’ll try to find Fahrenheit 451 in some medium. I suspect the “automaton” aspect is the point. It should be interesting, as I see Truffaut’s films as so very human and imperfect; they are very mid-20th century: the outsider rebelling against what feels like inescapable, rigid societal strictures (very much Rousseau’s “Émile”).

I wonder what Truffaut would make of our world now. 😬

^ I guess Truffaut is the same generation as this man—

[quote] How to define what constitutes progress? I doubt that people will be happier now. We can always criticize, see evil everywhere, what seems inconceivable to us today corresponds to what the world just believed in the past. Those who evoke progress are not necessarily the most numerous, perhaps they shout louder than the others ... Let us have a little humility, imagine how we will be judged in fifty years. (Roman Polanski, Paris Match, March 2020)

Another vote for Alphaville - very interesting and entertaining.....and some great ideas.

Wtf? I thought "The Bride Wore Black" (my favourite Truffaut btw) was a major inspiration for "Kill Bill"?

R129 great point