When talking about films and filmmakers he admired, French New Wave legend François Truffaut said, “I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between; I am not interested in all those films that do not pulse.” To Truffaut, it was essential that the artist display the utmost passion for their medium.
I Know, But: “Eine Alpensinfonie”
In praise of the peak of programmatic composition
