On "Nope," Van Hoytema and director Jordan Peele wanted to avoid the aesthetic of practical smoke and fake silhouettes that characterizes traditional day-for-night scenes — an aesthetic that Van ...

“DAY FOR NIGHT: THE CRITERION COLLECTION” Blu-ray widescreen and DVD widescreen, 1973, French with English subtitles, PG for implied sexuality Best extra: A new interview (in HD) with director ...

It has been 19 years, so I guess I just have to face it that I'm never going to get over the death of Francois Truffaut. The great French director was only 52 when he died (of a brain tumor) in ...

In the old days of repertory cinema, films would sometimes be linked by a common word: Robert Aldrich’s “The Big Knife,” for instance, might be on a double bill with Roman Polanski’s ...

In this sense at least, almost every “movie about movies” that’s been made since owes a debt to Day For Night.But the realism is equaled by the film’s cartoonish quality; as in a comic ...

Day For Night Review Neurotic star Julie Baker, ageing homosexual Alexandre, alcoholic diva Séverine and reckless juvenile Alphonse gather on the Riviera to shoot Meet Pamela with hard-of-hearing ...