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Day For Night
a.k.a. La Nuit Américaine Director: François Truffaut Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, François Truffaut, Alexandra Stewart

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  • DVD Release Date: 03/18/2003
  • Original Release: 1973
  • Rating: Rated PG
  • Sales Rank: 13,862

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Closed Caption; 4 all-new documentaries: "Day for Night: An Appreciation," with Truffaut biographer Annette Insdorf; "Day for Night: A Conversation with Jacqueline Bisset"; "La Nuit Americaine: The French Connection," featuring Nathalie Baye, Dani & Bernard Menez, & editor Yann Dedet; and "Truffaut in the USA," with Insdorf, actor/producer Bob Balaban, & journalist Todd McCarthy; Vintage 1973/1974 materials: The Making-of Piece "Truffaut: A View From the Inside," a Truffaut interview from the 1973 Cannes film festival, and a 1973 National Society of Film Critics award interview with Truffaut; ; Theatrical trailer; Cast/director film highlights; Scene access; Languages: Français & English; Subtitles: English, Français, & Español

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Side #1 --
1. Credits and Dedication [1:50]
2. Meet Pamela [5:24]
3. Hotel Choices [5:48]
4. Always Questions [3:02]
5. Rushes [2:58]
6. Memories [3:08]
7. Believing in Luck [2:00]
8. Severine's Bad Day [9:04]
9. A Director Dreams [:30]
10. Stacey's Secret [5:07]
11. Julie Baker [2:34]
12. Agony of Shooting [4:31]
13. Does it Show? [2:38]
14. Send in the Cat [5:40]
15. We Need Love [2:33]
16. Julie Understands [1:26]
17. Thieves in the Night [3:48]
18. Cinema Is King [2:44]
19. Drinks on Alexander [3:11]
20. Fling in the Woods [1:59]
21. Crash Scene [3:17]
22. A Film for a Guy [2:06]
23. Stolen Images [3:15]
24. Perspective [1:41]
25. Severine's Farewell [2:00]
26. Alphonse's New Love [2:51]
27. Two Phone Calls [7:03]
28. Acting Like Children [3:19]
29. Her Own Dialogue [4:21]
30. Hailed by Death [4:32]
31. Readying for Reshoots [1:31]
32. Shots in the Snow [5:21]
33. Goodbye, Children [1:15]
34. Cast List [1:43]

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Known to English-speaking audiences as Day for Night, La nuit américaine was director François Truffaut's loving and humorous tribute to the communal insanity of making a movie. The film details the making of a family drama called "Meet Pamela" about the tragedy that follows when a young French man introduces his parents to his new British wife. Truffaut gently satirizes his own films with "Meet Pamela"'s overwrought storyline, but the real focus is on the chaos behind the scenes. One of the central actresses is continually drunk due to family problems, while the other is prone to emotional instability, and the male lead (Truffaut regular Jean-Pierre Leaud) starts to act erratically when his intermittent romance with the fickle script girl begins to fail. In addition to all this personal drama, the film is besieged by technical problems, from difficult tracking shots to stubborn animal actors. The inspiration for future satires of movie-making from Living in Oblivion to Irma Vep, La nuit américaine was considered slight by some critics in comparison to earlier Truffaut masterworks, but it went on to win the 1973 Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide

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