400 Blows The Criterion Collection 03/18 Blu-ray (Rental)

François Truffaut’s first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut’s cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), The 400 Blows sensitively recreates the trials of Truffaut’s own difficult childhood. The film established Truffaut as a trailblazing auteur of the French New Wave. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES Restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Two audio commentaries, one by cinema professor Brian Stonehill and the other by director François Truffaut’s lifelong friend Robert Lachenay Rare audition footage of Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick Auffay, and Richard Kanayan Newsreel footage from the film’s showing at Cannes Excerpt from a 1965 interview with Truffaut in which he discusses his youth, his critical writings, and the origins of the character Antoine Doinel Excerpt from a 1960 interview with Truffaut about the global reception of The 400 Blows and his own critical view of the film Trailer PLUS: An essay by film scholar Annette Insdorf