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54-633: Originally a product of the Kudelski Group , Nagra recorders are now developed, produced and sold by independently owned company Audio Technology Switzerland S.A. , based in Romanel-sur-Lausanne . The machines were initially designed by Polish inventor Stefan Kudelski , and his company won numerous technical awards for their precision and reliability. Nagra means "[it will] record" in Polish , Kudelski's native language. Nagra-brand tape recorders were

108-450: A Best Foreign Film Oscar . The film is probably his most reflective work. It is the story of a film crew trying to finish a film while dealing with the personal and professional problems that accompany making a movie. Truffaut plays the director of the fictional film being made. This film features scenes from his previous films. It is considered his best film since his earliest work. Time magazine placed it on its list of 100 Best Films of

162-414: A radical-chic hypocrite, a man who believed everyone to be "equal" in theory only. "The Ursula Andress of militancy—like Brando —a piece of shit on a pedestal." Godard later tried to reconcile with Truffaut, but they never spoke to or saw each other again. After Truffaut's death, Godard wrote the introduction to a generous selection of his correspondence, and included his own 1973 letter. He also offered

216-422: A book about Hitchcock, based on a lengthy series of interviews. Of Jean Renoir , he said: "I think Renoir is the only filmmaker who's practically infallible, who has never made a mistake on film. And I think if he never made mistakes, it's because he always found solutions based on simplicity—human solutions. He's one film director who never pretended. He never tried to have a style, and if you know his work—which

270-447: A brutal tale of revenge, is a stylish homage to the films of Alfred Hitchcock (once again starring Moreau). Mississippi Mermaid (1969), with Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo , is an identity-bending romantic thriller. Both films are based on novels by Cornell Woolrich . The Wild Child (1970) included Truffaut's acting debut in the lead role of 18th-century physician Jean Marc Gaspard Itard . Bed and Board (1970)

324-530: A critic, Truffaut decided to make films. He began with the short film Une Visite (1955) and followed it with Les Mistons (1957). After seeing Orson Welles 's Touch of Evil at the Expo 58 , Truffaut made his feature film directorial debut with The 400 Blows (1959), which received considerable critical and commercial acclaim. He won the Best Director award at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. The film follows

378-452: A great effect on his professional and personal life. Bazin was a critic and the head of another film society at the time. He became a personal friend of Truffaut's and helped him out of various financial and criminal situations during his formative years. Truffaut joined the French Army in 1950, aged 18, but spent the next two years trying to escape. He was arrested for attempting to desert

432-534: A liar, because the scene between you and Jacqueline Bisset last week at Francis [a Paris restaurant] isn't included in your movie, and one also can't help wondering why the director is the only guy who isn't sleeping around in Day for Night " (Truffaut directed the film, wrote it and played the director on the film set in the film). Godard also implied that Truffaut had gone commercial and easy. Truffaut replied with an angry 20-page letter in which he accused Godard of being

486-422: A long tribute in his film Histoire(s) du cinéma . Truffaut was married to Madeleine Morgenstern from 1957 to 1965, and they had two daughters, Laura (born 1959) and Eva (born 1961). Madeleine was the daughter of Ignace Morgenstern , managing director of one of France's largest film distribution companies, Cocinor , and was largely responsible for securing funding for Truffaut's first films. In 1968, Truffaut

540-560: A main part of the story, he toned up the comical aspect of the characters and made the movie more to his liking. Even though Shoot the Piano Player was much appreciated by critics, it performed poorly at the box office. While the film focused on two of the French New Wave's favourite elements, American film noir and themselves, Truffaut never again experimented as heavily. In 1962, Truffaut directed his third movie, Jules and Jim ,

594-404: A nurse for an extended period of time. His mother eventually married and her husband gave François his surname, Truffaut. Although he was legally accepted as a legitimate child, his parents did not accept him. The Truffauts had another child, who died shortly after birth. This experience saddened them greatly and as a result they despised François because of the regret he represented (Knopf 4 ). He

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648-588: A romantic drama starring Jeanne Moreau . The film was very popular and highly influential. In 1963, Truffaut was approached to direct the American film Bonnie and Clyde , with a treatment written by Esquire journalists David Newman and Robert Benton intended to introduce the French New Wave to Hollywood. Although he was interested enough to help in script development, Truffaut ultimately declined, but not before interesting Jean-Luc Godard and American actor and would-be producer Warren Beatty , who proceeded with

702-429: A self-conscious rejection of traditional cinema structure. This was a topic on which Truffaut had been writing for years. Following the success of The 400 Blows , Truffaut featured disjunctive editing and seemingly random voiceovers in his next film, Shoot the Piano Player (1960), starring Charles Aznavour . Truffaut has said that in the middle of filming, he realized that he hated gangsters. But since gangsters were

756-549: Is The Green Room (1978), based on the Henry James story ' The Altar of the Dead ,' about a man and a woman who share a passion for remembering their dead loved ones. Jonathan Rosenbaum , who thinks The Green Room may be Truffaut's best film, told me he thinks of it as the director's homage to the auteur theory. That theory, created by Bazin and his disciples (Truffaut, Godard , Resnais , Chabrol , Rohmer , Malle ), declared that

810-414: Is Doinel's life. The film follows him through his troubled adolescence. He is caught in between an unstable parental relationship and an isolated youth. From birth Truffaut was thrown into a troublesome situation. As he was born out of wedlock, his birth had to remain a secret because of the stigma of illegitimacy. He was registered as "a child born to an unknown father" in hospital records and looked after by

864-599: Is headquartered in Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne and Phoenix, Arizona . Kudelski's first successful product was the Nagra tape recorder, developed by founder and Polish-born researcher Stefan Kudelski . André Kudelski , the son of founder Stefan Kudelski, became the chief executive officer in 1991. The rest of the executive board includes chief financial officer Mauro Saladini, chief operating officer Morten Solbakken, and executive vice president Nancy Goldberg. Kudelski Group

918-511: Is very comprehensive, since he dealt with all sorts of subjects—when you get stuck, especially as a young filmmaker, you can think of how Renoir would have handled the situation, and you generally find a solution". Truffaut called German filmmaker Werner Herzog "the most important film director alive." Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard , his colleague from Les Cahiers du Cinéma , worked together closely during their start as film directors although they had different working methods. Tensions came to

972-477: The de facto standard sound recording systems for motion picture and (non-video) single-camera television production from the 1960s until the 1990s. Originally, a physical sync lead tethered the Nagra recorder to the camera (putting a pulse from the camera onto the tape), to ensure any fluctuations in the tape were accounted for. After the introduction of crystal sync , the tape recorder could operate separately from

1026-498: The Nagra T-Audio , designed mainly for use in telecines for transferring dailies. All of the above machines use 1/4" tape. Kudelski SA also produced a series of miniaturised reel-to-reel recorders using a special tape (width 3.81 millimetres (0.150 in)), slightly larger than the conventional 1/8" cassette tape. These machines are referred to as SN (for Série Noire) and production was originally ordered by President Kennedy for

1080-842: The United States . In 2016, the company opened a second headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona . The same year, it launched Insight, the Group's artificial intelligence and big data business performance platform. Kudelski IoT was created in 2017, together with the launch of the Group's Internet of Things Security Center of Excellence to address demand for increased protection of connected devices. Fran%C3%A7ois Truffaut François Roland Truffaut ( UK : / ˈ t r uː f oʊ , ˈ t r ʊ -/ TROO -foh, TRUU- , US : / t r uː ˈ f oʊ / troo- FOH ; French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁɔlɑ̃ tʁyfo] ; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984)

1134-607: The United States Secret Service . The SN range comprises the following models: A special version of the SN using unique tape cassettes was made in cooperation with JBR Technology and widely used by US domestic intelligence agencies. The Nagra IV-STC was the standard for film and classical music recording until the mid-1990s, when DAT recorders became reliable enough to use in the field. In response, Kudelski produced two digital recorders to compete: In 1997, Nagra launched

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1188-535: The 1958 Cannes Film Festival . He supported Bazin in developing one of the most influential theories of cinema, the auteur theory . In 1954, Truffaut wrote an article in Cahiers du cinéma , "Une Certaine Tendance du Cinéma Français" ("A Certain Trend of French Cinema"), in which he attacked the state of French films, lambasting certain screenwriters and producers, and listing eight directors he considered incapable of devising

1242-637: The Butterfly , as well as novelist Haruki Murakami 's Kafka on the Shore . In conversation with Michael Ondaatje , film editor Walter Murch mentions the influence Truffaut had on him as a young man, saying he was "electrified" by the freeze-frame at the end of The 400 Blows , and that Godard's Breathless and Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player reinforced the idea that he could make films. Roger Ebert included The 400 Blows in his canon of Great Movies, and concludes: "one of his most curious, haunting films

1296-635: The Century (along with The 400 Blows ). In 1975, Truffaut gained more notoriety with The Story of Adèle H. ; Isabelle Adjani in the title role earned a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress . His 1976 film Small Change was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film . The Man Who Loved Women (1977), a romantic drama, was a minor hit. Truffaut also appeared in Steven Spielberg 's 1977 Close Encounters of

1350-483: The Dead ", filmed as The Green Room , and several American detective novels. Truffaut's other films were from original screenplays, often co-written by the screenwriters Suzanne Schiffman or Jean Gruault . They featured diverse subjects, the sombre The Story of Adèle H. inspired by the life of the daughter of Victor Hugo , with Isabelle Adjani ; Day for Night , shot at the Victorine Studios , depicting

1404-717: The Nagra III tape recorder in 1958, which could synchronize sound with the frames on a reel of film, which became popular for on-location filming. It was used by directors including François Truffaut , Jean-Luc Godard , and D. A. Pennebaker . The Nagra SN, or Série Noir, was released in 1970, which was originally designed for use by the United States Secret Service . Kudelski later expanded into television services, providing its access control system for pay television to Canal+ in 1989. André Kudelski replaced his father, Stefan Kudelski, as chief executive officer in 1991 following pressure from investors. In 2001, Kudelski Group entered

1458-508: The PL-P, a vacuum tube phono preamplifier, beginning a range of high-end audio equipment. The range is intended for audiophile consumers as opposed to exclusively the professional equipment manufactured hitherto. Since then, the range has grown steadily and have added tubes and mosfet amplifiers, CD players, other pre-amps and DACs. Nagra audio recorders have made appearances in numerous films, including: Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel and others recorded

1512-640: The Public Access sector with the acquisition of SKIDATA , an Austrian company specialised in access systems for people and vehicles. OpenTV, an internet and digital television company was fully acquired by the Kudelski Group on March 29, 2010. Kudelski Group entered the cybersecurity sector with the creation in 2012 of Kudelski Security. In order to identify and remediate cyber-attacks, Kudelski Security operates Cyber Fusion Centers in Switzerland , Spain and

1566-614: The Run (1979). Truffaut's 1973 film Day for Night earned him critical acclaim and several awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . His other notable films include Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Jules and Jim (1962), The Soft Skin (1964), The Wild Child (1970), Two English Girls (1971), The Last Metro (1980), and The Woman Next Door (1981). He played one of

1620-532: The Third Kind as scientist Claude Lacombe. The Green Room (1978) starred Truffaut in the lead. It was a box-office flop, so he made Love on the Run (1979) starring Léaud and Jade as the final movie of the Doinel Cycle. One of Truffaut's final films gave him an international revival. The Last Metro (1980) garnered 12 César Award nominations and 10 wins, including Best Director. Truffaut's last film

1674-423: The army and incarcerated in military prison. Bazin used his political contacts to get Truffaut released and set him up with a job at his new film magazine, Cahiers du cinéma . Over the next few years, Truffaut became a critic (and later editor) at Cahiers , where he became notorious for his brutal, unforgiving reviews. He was called "The Gravedigger of French Cinema" and was the only French critic not invited to

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1728-402: The camera, each having a separate accurate clock guaranteed to stay in sync with the other, allowing the sound recordist significantly more freedom of movement. This was commonly known as double system sound. Nagra recorders are identified by a number that indicates their technological generation and features: In addition to these field recorders, Kudelski S.A. produced a studio recorder called

1782-406: The character of Antoine Doinel through his perilous misadventures in school, an unhappy home life and later reform school. The film is highly autobiographical. Both Truffaut and Doinel were only children of loveless marriages; they both committed petty crimes of theft and truancy from the military. Truffaut cast Jean-Pierre Léaud as Doinel. Léaud was seen as an ordinary boy of 14 who auditioned for

1836-493: The director was the true author of a film—not the studio, the screenwriter, the star, the genre. If the figures in the green room stand for the great directors of the past, perhaps there is a shrine there now to Truffaut. One likes to think of the ghost of Antoine Doinel lighting a candle before it." Truffaut expressed his admiration for filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel , Ingmar Bergman , Robert Bresson , Roberto Rossellini , and Alfred Hitchcock . He wrote Hitchcock/Truffaut ,

1890-598: The film by Charles Silver praises it. Stolen Kisses (1968) was a continuation of the Antoine Doinel Cycle starring Claude Jade as Antoine's fiancée and later wife Christine Darbon. During its filming Truffaut fell in love with Jade and was briefly engaged to her. It was a big hit on the international art circuit. A short time later Jade made her Hollywood debut in Hitchcock's Topaz . Truffaut worked on projects with varied subjects. The Bride Wore Black (1968),

1944-538: The film with director Arthur Penn . The fourth movie Truffaut directed was The Soft Skin (1964). It was not acclaimed on its release. Truffaut's first non-French film was a 1966 adaptation of Ray Bradbury 's classic science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 , showcasing Truffaut's love of books. His only English-speaking film, made on location in England, was a great challenge for Truffaut, because he barely spoke English himself. Shot by cinematographer Nicolas Roeg , this

1998-479: The house to improve it, such as painting or changing the electric outlets. Sadly, these kind gestures often resulted in catastrophic events, causing him to get scolded by his mother. His father mostly laughed them off. The 400 Blows marked the beginning of the French New Wave movement, which gave directors such as Jean-Luc Godard , Claude Chabrol and Jacques Rivette a wider audience. The New Wave dealt with

2052-499: The kinds of "vile" and "grotesque" characters and storylines he called characteristic of the mainstream French film industry: Jean Renoir , Robert Bresson , Jean Cocteau , Jacques Becker , Abel Gance , Max Ophuls , Jacques Tati and Roger Leenhardt . The article caused a storm of controversy and landed Truffaut an offer to write for the nationally circulated, more widely read cultural weekly Arts-Lettres-Spectacles . Truffaut wrote more than 500 film articles for that publication over

2106-467: The main roles in Steven Spielberg 's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Truffaut wrote the book Hitchcock/Truffaut (1966), based on his interviews with film director Alfred Hitchcock during the 1960s. He was married from 1957 until 1964 to Madeleine Morgenstern, in 1968 became engaged to leading actress Claude Jade from three of his films, and lived together with Fanny Ardant , actress in his two last films, until his death. Truffaut

2160-564: The money for admission. After being expelled from several schools, at age 14 he decided to become self-taught. Two of his academic goals were to watch three movies a day and read three books a week. Truffaut frequented Henri Langlois 's Cinémathèque Française , where he was exposed to countless foreign films, becoming familiar with American cinema and directors such as John Ford , Howard Hawks and Nicholas Ray , as well as those of British director Alfred Hitchcock . After starting his own film club in 1948, Truffaut met André Bazin , who had

2214-503: The next four years. Truffaut later devised the auteur theory , according to which the director was the "author" of his work and great directors such as Renoir or Hitchcock have distinct styles and themes that permeate their films. Although his theory was not widely accepted then, it gained some support in the 1960s from American critic Andrew Sarris . In 1967, Truffaut published his book-length interview of Hitchcock, Hitchcock/Truffaut (New York: Simon and Schuster ). After having been

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2268-586: The rhythm track to the Simon and Garfunkel song Cecilia on a Nagra recorder which was unintentionally creating the echo effect on the recording as they banged on a guitar case, piano bench and their legs. The Nagra IV-S was also used in the recording of the following albums: Kudelski Group Kudelski SA is a Swiss company that sells digital television access and management systems, content protection solutions, cybersecurity solutions, Internet of Things products and public access infrastructure. The company

2322-508: The role after seeing a flyer, but interviews after the film's release (one is included on the Criterion DVD of the film) reveal Léaud's natural sophistication and an instinctive understanding of acting for the camera. Léaud and Truffaut collaborated on several films over the years. Their most noteworthy collaboration was the continuation of Doinel's story in a series of films called "The Antoine Doinel Cycle". The primary focus of The 400 Blows

2376-426: The surface after May 68 : Godard wanted a more political, specifically Marxist cinema, Truffaut was critical of creating films for primarily political purposes. In 1973, Godard wrote Truffaut a lengthy and raucous private letter peppered with accusations and insinuations, several times stating that as a filmmaker "you're a liar" and that his latest film ( Day for Night ) had been unsatisfying, lying and evasive: "You're

2430-559: The ups and downs of filmmaking; and The Last Metro , set during the German occupation of France during World War II , a film rewarded by ten César Awards . Known as a lifelong cinephile, Truffaut once (according to the 1993 documentary film François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits ) threw a hitchhiker out of his car after learning that he did not like films. Many filmmakers admire Truffaut, and tributes to his work have appeared in films such as Almost Famous , Face and The Diving Bell and

2484-555: Was Truffaut's first film in colour. The larger-scale production was difficult for Truffaut, who had worked only with small crews and budgets. The shoot was also strained by a conflict with lead actor Oscar Werner, who was unhappy with his character and stormed off set, leaving Truffaut to shoot scenes using a body double shot from behind. The film was a commercial failure, and Truffaut never worked outside France again. The film's cult standing has steadily grown, although some critics remain dubious of it as an adaptation. A 2014 consideration of

2538-471: Was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic, widely regarded as one of the founders of the cinematic French New Wave . With a career of more than 25 years, he is an icon of the French film industry. Truffaut's The 400 Blows (1959) was a defining film of the French New Wave movement, and was followed by four sequels: Antoine et Colette (1962), Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970), and Love on

2592-607: Was an outcast from his earliest years, dismissed as an unwanted child. François was sent to live with his grandparents. When his grandmother died, his parents took him in, much to his mother's dismay. His experiences with his mother were harsh. He recalled being treated badly by her but found comfort in his father's laughter and spirit. François had a very depressing childhood after moving in with his parents. They left him at home, by himself, when they took vacations. He even recalled being alone during Christmas. Being left alone forced François into independence, often doing various tasks around

2646-449: Was another Antoine Doinel film, also with Jade, now Léaud's on-screen-wife. Two English Girls (1971) is the female reflection of the same love story as "Jules et Jim". It is based on a story by Henri-Pierre Roché , who wrote Jules and Jim , about a man who falls equally in love with two sisters, and their love affair over a period of years. Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (1972) was a screwball comedy. Day for Night won Truffaut

2700-457: Was born in Paris on 6 February 1932. His mother was Janine de Montferrand. His mother's future husband, Roland Truffaut, accepted him as an adopted son and gave him his surname. He was passed around to live with various nannies and his grandmother for a number of years. His grandmother instilled in him her love of books and music. He lived with her until her death, when Truffaut was eight years old. It

2754-577: Was founded in 1951 by Stefan Kudelski , while he was an engineering student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ( École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL ). The company's first product was the Nagra I, a reel-to-reel tape recorder, which weighed 11 pounds and measured 5"x7"x12" (roughly the size of a shoe box). It was succeeded by the Nagra II in 1953, which improved sound quality with additional mechanical filters. Kudelski released

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2808-512: Was only after her death that he lived with his parents. Truffaut's biological father's identity is unknown, but a private detective agency in 1968 revealed that its inquiry into the matter led to a Roland Levy, a Jewish dentist from Bayonne . Truffaut's mother's family disputed the finding but Truffaut believed and embraced it. Truffaut often stayed with friends and tried to be out of the house as much as possible. He knew Robert Lachenay from childhood, and they were lifelong best friends. Lachenay

2862-476: Was shot in black and white, giving his career a sense of having bookends. Confidentially Yours is Truffaut's tribute to his favourite director, Hitchcock. It deals with numerous Hitchcockian themes, such as private guilt versus public innocence, a woman investigating a murder, and anonymous locations. A keen reader, Truffaut adapted many literary works, including two novels by Henri-Pierre Roché , Ray Bradbury 's Fahrenheit 451 , Henry James 's " The Altar of

2916-451: Was the inspiration for the character René Bigey in The 400 Blows and worked as an assistant on some of Truffaut's films. Cinema offered Truffaut the greatest escape from an unsatisfying home life. He was eight years old when he saw his first movie, Abel Gance 's Paradis Perdu ( Paradise Lost , 1939), beginning his obsession. He frequently skipped school and sneaked into theaters because he lacked

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