“I’d dump a guy for a film but never a film for a guy!” 

charming, genuine, and brave enough to tell the three essential truths about filmmaking:
- movies are more important than life
- everyone in the cast and crew is boning each other
- cats cannot act

I love movies about movies and I love being on a set so much. I miss the energy, and the busyness, and the hustling unpreparedness! I loved how unfocused this movie was– no singular plot, no central character to follow, just a series of dramas surrounding a single production. It feels like a Christopher Guest movie with the dial turned way down. Love it!

I absolutely did not by any means watch this movie! I was simply in the room while it was on! I was playing Fortnite with my friends on my switch and on Zoom!

I invented code phrases so I wouldn’t interrupt the viewers. If I said “great cinematography” that meant I needed a med kit. “Terrific performance”: I could use a weapon or direction towards one. “Who directed this movie?”, shield please! 

We placed 9th, 2nd, 1st and 6th I think. 

The movie was French and seemed to be about cinema and also women and men. Truffaut
was in it!

I was kinda losing my interest and passion for cinema over the past couple weeks, but watching Day for Night for the first time yesterday really restored my love, and possibly invigorated it more than ever.

Watching it for the third time this weekend reaffirmed that this is what I want to do with my life (even though films like Meet Pamela aren't made anymore). This is what it's all leading up to, this is my passion, this is my love, this is cinema.

Thus, Day for Night is the film with the biggest impact on my life, which is actually kinda funny, since I only saw it yesterday.

“I’d dump a guy for a film but never a film for a guy!” -Julie,

Cats are cool.

So.... I don't tend to like films about the importance of the film-making process because for me they often come off as self-indulgent and masturbatory... unless they are made by Agnes Varda. This, for me, was no different. I understand why people like the flowy style and romantic approach but something about the script just didn't connect for me with the biggest barrier being my failure to identity with the characters. It's just not my thing at all.

It's rated a 4.1 though so people either enjoy it or lie about enjoying it so it may be worth your time.

"No one's private life runs smoothly. That only happens in the movies.”

making a movie looks like the most stressful thing in the world but somehow the most amazing thing in the world at the same and i think that’s pretty neat

That kitten was a horrible actor.

So after this film was released, Jean-Luc Goddard (everyone's favorite French new wave asshat) wrote a letter to Truffaut accusing him of selling out and saying that since the film had appeal to the masses it had no inherit value. And if that doesn't sound the pretentious guy in your film class who hasn't watched an English language feature in 4 years but has no actual talent then I don't know what is.

I got so immersed in this that I forgot I was actually watching a film. A perfect blend of realism and fantasy.

Truffôfo.

Eu tenho uma história engraçada com esse filme. Eu assisti 95% dele dublado em inglês, porque era o torrent que eu tinha, e achei que era uma decisão estética: Truffaut sendo engraçadinho com os códigos. MAS, nesse mesmo arquivo, por qualquer razão, os 3 últimos minutos não reproduziam por nada nesse mundo.

Fiz o streaming de qualquer outro torrent, só para assistir à esses 3 minutos. Qual não foi minha surpresa quando tava todo mundo falando francês normal, sem dublagem.

Em inglês ou francês, é uma graça.

“Meet Pamela finally seems on the right track. Tye actors are in their roles, the crew has come together, personal problems have been resolved. Cinema is King.” 

Along with 8 1/2, this is the best film about film I’ve seen. Truffaut put his love of the artform into this one, and reminds us he was a very fine actor to boot. Jacqueline Bisset brings a stoicism to Julie, a female character who brilliantly refutes both tropes and the aspertions of the other characters.

I’m very much looking forward to following Truffaut and Jean-Pierre Léaud through the 400 Blows films.

Funniest movie a about making a movie. Period. 😂

ai quero ser diretora

Great film letting us see what's going on behind the walls of the seventh art's production.

the chaos and magic it takes to make a film while balancing your personal life without letting your work bleed into it and vice versa. Really beautiful camera work and attention to detail, Truffaut floats through the runtime, I could’ve used a lot more. 

A movie that loves movies, amen.

i dont remember anything but i liked les vibes

Truffaut patently explains the true miracle of cinema: that directors haven't been driven to murder.

As films about the film-making process go, this is a more workman-like effort than the poetic artistry of 8 1/2. But it's not without merits, not least the presence of a young Jacqueline Bisset.

Ok Mr. Truffaut I've been anticipating you for a while. Aside for those dated ass end credits this was a perfect film. A Film about Film, no more, no less.
Actually that's a partial lie, because there's definitely a lot imbedded underneath. A companion to Fellini's 8 1/2 to some extent, day for night is just Truffaut shouting "what I do ain't easy" and I think everyone will walk out of this with a new appreciation for cinema, the pressures and involvement from everybody in the film, and the complexity of the production itself. Extremely well written, directed to perfection. I think I've found a new one of my favourites. 
I'll definitely be revisiting this

molto bello

Godard estava certo em chamar Truffaut de mentiroso em relação a La Nuit Américaine. O que ele faz nesse filme é realmente trazer um convencionalismo vazio que não diz nada sobre nada.

Truffaut realiza um filme sobre os bastidores de um filme mais preocupado em referenciar o cinema, mostrar os truques cinematográficos e trazer conversas cinéfilas para pseudo-cinéfilos se identificarem e baterem palma do que utilizar seu filme para fazer uma análise e buscar alguma verdade.

I enjoyed this film, but I don’t think it’s one of Truffaut’s best. I’ll have to give an extra half a star for jp Leaud and how he manages to be so attractive while playing such a miserable character