Features

New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Raoul Coutard; Two audio commentaries: one featuring co-writer Jean Gruault, Truffaut collaborator Suzanne Schiffman, editor Claudine Bouché, and film scholar Annette Insdorf; the other featuring legendary actress Jeanne Moreau and Truffaut biographer Serge Toubiana; Excerpts from The Key to Jules and Jim (1985), a documentary on author Henri-Pierre Roché and the true stories on which the novel and film are based; Truffaut on Roché, from the French program Bibliothèque de Poche (1966); Theatrical trailer; New and improved English subtitle translation; New video interview with Coutard; Video interview with Gruault; New video conversation between scholars Robert Stam and Dudley Andrew; Excerpt from a 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de Notre Temps dedicated to François Truffaut; Segment from the French program L'Invité du Dimanche (1969), featuring Truffaut, Moreau, and Jean Renoir; Excerpts from Truffaut's first appearance on American television, a 1977 interview with New York Film Festival director Richard Roud; Excerpts from a 1979 American Film Institute Dialogue on Film given by Truffaut; Archival audio interview of Truffaut by Claude-Jean Philippe (1980); 44-page booklet featuring an essay by film critic John Powers, reprints of Truffaut's writings, and a Pauline Kael review

Scene Index

Side #1 -- Disc One
1. Credits/A Friendship [2:36]
2. Thérèse [4:52]
3. A Calm Smile [3:43]
4. Catherine [1:06]
5. Thomas [3:15]
6. Burning Lies [2:39]
7. Traces of Civilization [3:26]
8. At the Beach [1:39]
9. Learning to Laugh [1:43]
10. Catherine's Leap [4:23]
11. Good News [3:17]
12. The War [4:47]
13. An Angel Passes [8:01]
14. Speaking of Catherine [2:58]
15. Jim and Catherine [7:29]
16. War Stories [3:28]
17. "Le Tourbillon de la Vie" [2:28]
18. Elective Affinities [4:14]
19. Village Idiots [4:31]
20. Jim in Paris [3:42]
21. Gilberte [1:23]
22. Catherine the Queen [3:15]
23. Changing Alliances [6:38]
24. Parting [2:36]
25. Separation [3:33]
26. Reunions [5:19]
27. Jim's Story [4:02]
28. Catherine's Final Gesture [5:00]
1. Introductions [2:36]
2. Bernard Largemains/Marie Dubois [4:52]
3. Serge Rezvani/Common Interests [3:43]
4. The Most Compelling Creation [1:06]
5. Cutting Room/Gender Roles [3:15]
6. A Naïve Film [2:39]
7. Writing and Directing [3:26]
8. Many Men/Few Women [1:39]
9. Obnoxious Kid/Complex Woman [1:43]
10. Roché/Feminism [4:23]
11. Picasso and "The Marseillaise" [3:17]
12. Stock Footage/Oskar Werner [4:47]
13. Editing/The Actors [8:01]
14. Discoveries on the Set [2:58]
15. Family/Henri Serre [7:29]
16. Recording Sound [3:28]
17. Catherine/Collective Effort [2:28]
18. The Privacy of Windows [4:14]
19. Women Are Stronger [4:31]
20. How the Story Is Told/Extras [3:42]
21. A Team Player [1:23]
22. Freedom in Editing [3:15]
23. Hitchcock/The Key Scene [6:38]
24. The Fog/An Irresistible Force [2:36]
25. The Mystery of Catherine [3:33]
26. Going Past the Story/Voice-Over [5:19]
27. A Goddess, Not a Woman [4:02]
28. Fragility [5:00]
1. Meeting Truffaut [2:36]
2. Like a Song [4:52]
3. Roché's Notebooks [3:43]
4. A Film That Has Traveled Well [1:06]
5. Making the Same Film [3:15]
6. Acting Is Not Lying [2:39]
7. Friendship/Joie de Vivre [3:26]
8. Perfectly in Synch [1:39]
9. A Small Gesture of Cruelty [1:43]
10. A Fixed Moment/The Leap [4:23]
11. Diplomatic Son [3:17]
12. Depicting the War/Reality [4:47]
13. Three Individuals [8:01]
14. Rebellion and Acceptance [2:58]
15. Arrogance/Paradise Lost [7:29]
16. Direct Sound/Appolinaire [3:28]
17. An Essential Song [2:28]
18. The Cruelty of Freedom [4:14]
19. An Independent Woman [4:31]
20. Henri Serre [3:42]
21. The Couple [1:23]
22. A Wonderful Gift [3:15]
23. Nostalgia/One Take [6:38]
24. Right to Left [2:36]
25. A War of Letters [3:33]
26. Moulin d'Andé/Defining Statements [5:19]
27. Catherine Betrays Catherine [4:02]
28. People Forget [5:00]
1. A Triangle [2:42]
2. Helen Hessel [7:35]
3. Franz Hessel [6:04]
4. Henri-Pierre Roché [7:20]
5. The Triangle Breaks [7:30]
Side #2 -- Disc Two
1. Jeanne Exposes François [5:29]
2. Working With Truffaut [6:20]
3. The Opposite of François [5:06]
4. Avenue Frochet [7:41]
5. The Letter [7:21]
1. A Film Brimming With Text [3:25]
2. Truffaut vs. the Legion of Decency [2:45]
3. Two Kids in Love With Their Mother [1:49]
4. The Lightness of Lubitsch [2:09]
5. An Autobiographical Novel [1:37]
6. Oskar Werner and Henri Serre [3:45]
7. Circle and Triangle [4:30]
8. How to Illustrate Friendship [2:08]
9. Jean Gruault [3:54]
10. An Element of Exaltation [1:54]
1. Truffaut Is Not Doinel [4:16]
2. Adapting Roché [6:14]
3. The Abstract and the Concrete [2:45]
4. Differing Imaginations [4:38]
5. 00-14 (aka Belle Époque) [2:51]