The End of the Studio System and the Invasion of World Cinema

1959 – Dir. François Truffaut

Resources:

• "The 400 Blows: Close to Home" by Annette Insdorf for Criterion

• The Great Movies review by Roger Ebert

• "The 400 Blows review – François Truffaut’s coming-of-age masterwork" by Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian

• "Children of the Revolution – Truffaut and Les Quatre cents coups" by David Melville for Senses of Cinema

1960 – Dir. Billy Wilder

1960 – Dir. Jean-Luc Godard

1960 – Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Resources:

• Hitchcock (2012, Dir Sacha Gervasi)

• Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015, Dir. Kent Jones)

• Cinephilia & Beyond - A treasure trove of resources!

1961 – Dir. Blake Edwards

Resources:

• "Breakfast at Tiffany’s at 60: the sharp romcom that grows darker with age" by Guy Lodge for The Guardian

1964 – Dir. Stanley Kubrick

Resources:

• filmsite.org Background and Review

• Cinephilia & Beyond  - A treasure trove of resources!

• "Almost Everything in 'Dr. Strangelove' Was True" by Eric Schlosser for New Yorker

• Criterion Blu-ray/DVD release; trailer and essays

• The Great Movies review by Roger Ebert