Had a great day of films. Went to see kathryn bigelow’s “the hurt locker” this afternoon. She shot on super 16, and it added a griddy, rough and tumble, 70’s cinema quality to the film. Very well acted, the characters have some great moments. She did it with only 11 million, still a lit of money, but nice to see good films getting made for under 30 these days.

Finished the night with Truffaut’s “the 400 blows.” One of his first films, critical and commercial acclaim, and a best director award from Cannes. Just a great film to watch, his style and choices inspired many of the current greats. To think that just the year before he was banned from Cannes. I guess this industry has been fickle from the beginning.

Spielberg actually cast truffaut in “close encounters of the third kind,” because he wanted to portray the theme of seeing the world through the eyes of a child. He saw that theoughline in all of truffaut’s work. What a great choice.