Top Posts & Pages
- Movie Review: The Sad Aftershocks of "Obsession"
- Movie Review: "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War"
- Movie Review: "Toy Story 5" is all Message, Little Fun
- Movie Review: "The Musicians" become a reluctant String Quartet
- Movie Review: "Der Tiger" ("The Tank") Lumbers down a Too-Familiar Path
- Netflixable? Schnabel's Mad Monomania paints "In the Hand of Dante"
- Movie Review: "The Last Ronin" wanders Futuristic Russia looking for Bullets
- Movie Review: Good Gawd, Gosling! "Project Hail Mary"
- Classic Film Review: "Sullivan's Travels"(1941), what Hollywood saw and what Hollywood left out
- Sam Elliott still makes the womenfolk whisper "I'll See You in My Dreams"
Find a Movie Review
Like Movie Nation on Facebook
Daily Archives: January 22, 2026
Classic Film Review: Peak “Nouvelle Vague,” Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows” (1959)
We remember the boy. Going on seventy years since “The 400 Blows” arrived on screens, one is still hard-pressed to think of a better performance by a child in a film. James Dean and Jean-Paul Belmondo defined “rebellious youth” on … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Classic Film Review: Peak “Nouvelle Vague,” Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows” (1959)
Movie Nation 