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The release of François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups) in 1959 shook world cinema to its foundations. The now-classic portrait of troubled adolescence introduced a major new director in the cinematic landscape and was an inaugural gesture of the revolutionary French New Wave. But The 400 Blows did not only introduce the world to its precocious director—it also unveiled his indelible creation: Antoine Doinel. Initially patterned closely after Truffaut himself, the Doinel character (played by the irrepressible and iconic Jean-Pierre Léaud) reappeared in four subsequent films that knowingly portrayed his myriad frustrations and romantic entanglements from his stormy teens through marriage, children, divorce, and adulthood. With The Adventures of Antoine Doinel, Criterion is proud to present Truffaut’s celebrated saga in its entirety: the feature films The 400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, and Love on the Run, and the 1962 short subject, Antoine and Colette, in a special edition five-disc box set.

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'The Adventures of Antoine Doinel'

DVD Boxset 5 Disc Review: Criterion Region 0 - NTSC

NOTE: Criterion Box HERE contains - The 400 Blows / Antoine & Collette / Stolen Kisses / Bed & Board / Love on the Run

DVD Boxset Cover		CLICK to order from:
Distribution	Criterion Collection Spine # 185 - Region 0 - NTSC
Video	Original Aspect ratios and anamorphic (when widescreen) NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s
Audio	Original French language tracks
Subtitles	Removable English on all
Features	Release Information: Studio: Home Vision Entertainment / Criterion Collection Edition Details: • Black & White, Color, Widescreen, Box set • Includes: The 400 Blows, Antoine and Colette, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, and Love on the Run • Audio commentary on The 400 Blows by film scholar Brian Stonehill • Audio commentary on The 400 Blows by Truffaut's lifelong friend Robert Lachenay • Les Mistons (1957), Truffaut's 18-minute short • Audio commentary for Les Mistons by then assistant director and future writing collaborator Claude de Givray • Introduction to Les Mistons by Truffaut historian Serge Toubiana • Rare audition footage of cast members from The 400 Blows • Newsreel footage of Jean-Pierre Leaud at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959 • Portrait de Truffaut (1961), a 25-minute documentary about Truffaut • Introduction to Stolen Kisses by film historian Serge Toubiana • Archival newsreel footage of the "Langlois Affair" • Newsreel footage of Truffaut's impassioned rally to shut down the 1968 Cannes Film Festival in support of striking students and workers • Promotional spot featuring Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut appealing for public support of Henri Langlois • Rare footage of Truffaut and co-writer Bernard Revon discussing their notes • Interview footage of Truffaut speaking about Antoine Doinel and the decision to continue the Doinel series with Stolen Kisses • Interview footage of Truffaut discussing the entire Doinel cycle • Excerpt from a 1979 TV show featuring Truffaut • Theatrical trailers for The 400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, and Love on the Run • Booklet featuring Truffaut's writings, notes, script treatments, interviews with Truffaut, and more • Widescreen anamorphic format • Number of discs: 5 DVD Release Date: April 29th, 2002 Box set with slip cases

Comments:

What can you say? 'Criterion does it again' seems somehow insufficient. Wonderful contrasts and a soft pallet give sharp detail to the image. The discs have been arranged with extras supplementing each film and a host of other insightful interviews and shorts add to this extensive collection of DVDs. I can state that this is the definitive DVD for all four feature films in the collection and the two shorts ( 'Antoine and Collete' and 'Les Mistons' ). Commentaries are included for 'The 400 Blows' and 'Les Mistons'. English subtitles are available in white for each film. I don't see too much point in going on... this DVD Boxset is as close to perfection as I have ever seen. Cheap at double the price.

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Gary W. Tooze

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The Films in My Life by Francois Truffaut, Leonard Mayhew	François Truffaut by Annette Insdorf	HITCHCOCK (REVISED EDITION) by Helen G. Scott, Francois Truffaut	The French New Wave: An Artistic School by Michel Marie, Richard John Neupert, Richard Neupert	A History of the French New Wave Cinema by Richard Neupert	French New Wave by Jean Douchet, Robert Bonnono, Cedric Anger, Robert Bononno	French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present by Remi Fournier Lanzoni	Truffaut: A Biography by Antoine do Baecque and Serge Toubiana