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Shoot The Piano Player, Thu April 2
2009, 7:00 & 9:00

New 35 mm Print of Truffaut's Wacky Farce

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Shoot The Piano Player shows at IFS on Thu April 2, 2009, 7:00 & 9:00

Shoot The Piano Player
New 35 mm Print of Truffaut's Wacky Farce
Thu April 2
2009, 7:00 & 9:00

Francois Truffaut directed this tragicomic farce about a piano player (Charles Aznavour) beset by a family tragedy who has given up on his career as a famed concert pianist and fallen to tickling the keys at a neighborhood speakeasy, where his brother draws him into a feud with mobsters. Marie Dubois plays the waitress who falls in love with him. Following the success of his first feature, The 400 Blows, Truffaut rejected the sentimentality of that film, declaring he �needed to show that I had been influenced by American cinema.� This is reflected in the contrast between the broad variety of devices he uses to tell his story, including the then-novel voice-over describing the hero's neurotic self-chatter, as well as the inclusion of sex and violence. Because of this novelty, at the time of its release Shoot the Piano Player was widely regarded as the director's bomb between two hits (Jules and Jim followed in 1961) and was not appreciated by the critics of the day.

To see a trailer and read a review, visit InternationalFilmSeries.com.

Tickets

10 films for $60 with punch card
$9 general admission. $7 w/UCB student ID, $7 for senior citizens
$1 discount to anyone with a bike helmet
Free on your birthday! CU Cinema Studies students get in free.

Parking

Pay lot 360 (now only $1/hour!), across from the buffalo statue and next to the Duane Physics tower, is closest to Muenzinger. Free parking can be found after 5pm at the meters along Colorado Ave east of Folsom stadium and along University Ave west of Macky.

RTD Bus

Park elsewhere and catch the HOP to campus

International Film Series

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Established 1941 by James Sandoe.

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(Originally called The Experimental Cinema Group)
Established 1955 by Carla Selby, Gladney Oakley, Bruce Conner and Stan Brakhage.

C.U. Film Program

(AKA The Rocky Mountain Film Center)
First offered degrees in filmmaking and critical studies in 1989 under the guidance of Virgil Grillo.

Celebrating Stan

Created by Suranjan Ganguly in 2003.

C.U. Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts

Established 2017 by Chair Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz.

Thank you, sponsors!
Boulder International Film Festival
Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts

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