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	400 (number) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A circle is divided into 400 grads, which is equal to 360 degrees and 2π radians.
		400 is a self number in base 10, since there is no integer that added to the sum of its own digits results in 400.
		On the other hand, 400 is divisible by the sum of its own base 10 digits, making it a Harshad number.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/400_(number) (1700 words)

	The 400 Blows - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Les Quatre Cent Coups (The 400 Blows) (1959) is a French film directed by François Truffaut.
		Legend has it the young Weinstein brothers attended "The 400 Blows" believing it to be racy European fare.
		The 400 Blows is, besides a character study, an exposé of the injustices of the treatment of juvenile offenders in France at the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_400_Blows (750 words)

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		Bourgeois critics praise "400 Blows" as a portrait of abuse, as a story of how the system abused and failed Antoine (who is a semi-autobiographical stand-in for Truffaut himself) as an individual, in other words, as a depiction of an exception to the rule of children being well-treated in imperialist countries.
		Since "400 Blows" focuses on children's oppression, which is a part of gender oppression, and the theme of children's oppression is rare in contemporary movie culture, "400 Blows" is at least adequate and deserves a neutral to positive rating.
		A theme in "400 Blows" is that Antoine is actually a "good kid" who is pressurized into the same situations as hardened delinquents and criminals, which lends the movie to the wishful bourgeois interpretation that it depicts a regrettably imperfect but still desirable capitalist society(5).
	www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/movies/long/fourhundredblows.html (2491 words)

	Review: 400 Blows, The (Les quatre cent coups) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Such is not the case with The 400 Blows, which takes an uncompromising, non-judgmental look at several key events in the life of a teenage boy.
		The 400 Blows became one of the first and most influential of the French New Wave films (it was released around the same time as Godard's Breathless), and, as such, was at the vanguard of a movement that had a worldwide impact on movie-making for more than a decade.
		The 400 Blows is the first of five time Truffaut brings us a chapter in the life of his cinematic alter-ego, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud).
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/f/400_blows.html (1404 words)

	400 Blows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		THE 400 BLOWS (1959, France, 99 min.), directed by Francois Truffaut; story by Truffaut; with Jean-Pierre Leaud (Antoine Doinel), Claire Maurier (Gilberte Doinel), Albert Remy (Julien Doinel), Guy Decomble ("Little Quiz," the teacher), Patrick Auffay (René).
		One of The 400 Blows' most important conflicts is between "constraint" and "liberty." Discuss how this theme plays itself out in the film.
		The most famous shot in The 400 Blows is the last one--the freeze-frame of Antoine in close-up.
	spot.pcc.edu /~mdembrow/400_blows.htm (491 words)

	The 400 Blows - DVD Movie Central
		The 400 Blows was the very first French film to be photographed in dyaliscope widescreen, a 2.35:1 format similar to the Cinemascope process.
		The 400 Blows is presented in a fl and white, anamorphic transfer that uses a 35mm composite fine grain source print to preserve the film's original dyaliscope appearance.
		The 400 Blows develop into an independent, more confident young man. Antoine may not have much success with women, a trait which recurs in the later films of the series, but at least it is not for lack of trying.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/400_blows.htm (3736 words)

	no spare change: 400 blows.
		I went to see L.A. punk band 400 Blows at Bottom Of The Hill last night.
		When 400 Blows took the stage, their set up looked extremely minimal.
		Anyway, here are some of my photos of 400 Blows from the show (Brian Brophy was also there and got some really good shots of 400 Blows and Year Future, so maybe he'll post 'em on his blog)...
	www.meshsf.com /blogs/2005/08/400-blows.html (595 words)

	400 Blows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bio: 400 Blows are from the east side of Los Angeles.
		Not long after joining 400 Blows, he had quit his job in order to tour, and cashed out his pension fund to help finance the band.
		There is a saying that I think pretty much sums up 400 Blows: Talent can do whatever it is capable of, but Genius can only do what it must.
	www.goldstandardlabs.com /400_blows/400blows_info.html (332 words)

	#722 The 400 Blows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I brought home a copy of The 400 Blows from the video store after watching several consecutive disappointments (so-called "great" movies that didn't live up to their reputations).
		Because of its title, The 400 Blows is often mistaken for something that it isn't (a movie about child abuse or a "blue" flick).
		Definitely not a one-hit wonder, the legendary filmmaker turned out more than a dozen memorable features during a career that was shortened by his untimely death at the age of 52.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /top100/72.html (693 words)

	The 400 Blows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 400 Blows (slang for "raising hell") is considered to be the flashpoint of the French New Wave, almost of modern filmmaking itself.
		In The 400 Blows, the mother's matter of fact coldness towards her son is alarming.
		In the studied recklessness of The 400 Blows, and throughout his career, Truffaut's adoration for classic films and film genres permeates every frame.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDThe400Blows.htm (571 words)

	Amazon.com: The 400 Blows: DVD: Bernard Abbou,Luc Andrieux,Patrick Auffay,Robert Beauvais,Jean-François ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I've spent decades avoiding THE 400 BLOWS, afraid it was either dark and brooding, or a documentation of child abuse (physical and/or emotional), or an angry and vindictive assault on the authors' of Francois Truffaut's traumatic childhood.
		By the way, according to Kenny "400 blows" refers to a French colloquialism similar to the American "paint the town red." It means to give oneself over to every type of excess, and raise a little heck in the process.
		From the opening shots of 'Les Quatres-Cent Coups' (The Four-Hundred Blows), we are shown some of the sights and sounds of this historic city, that forms the colourful backdrop to the dubious adventures of Antoine Doinel.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1572525320?v=glance (2141 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews 400 Blows: Angel's Trumpets and Devil's Trombones
		On one side of the sharply parted musical waters are the head-bobbing, fist-pumping fans who know every lyric, while punk and metal traditionalists remain steadfastly on the others side.
		400 Blows has honed its straightforward message of brutality into a tangible, expressive, and most importantly, identifiable state.
		With Fudge Tunnel's Alex Newport behind the mixing board, 400 Blows kills, skins and guts you with alarming accuracy.
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=11204812012002975 (680 words)

	400 Blows- RUTHLESS REVIEWS
		As dark as the mood is, and as brutal as the music is, the 400 Blows and Skot in particular, manage to keep a halo of childlike innocence about them.
		Whereas Keith would just be content to repeat, "You live at home with your mom" for a while, Skot and the Blows get as far away from the verse-chorus-verse world as anybody this side of Lightning Bolt.
		Their music, as I mentioned, is not derivative in the slightest, and they have the technical savvy to keep it very interesting from song to song.
	ruthlessreviews.com /400blowsblackrainbow.html (816 words)

	Truffaut's The 400 Blows
		From the moment Truffaut's The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups, 1959) is previewed out of competition along with Rossellini's India (1958) and Resnais's Hiroshima, mon amour (1959) on May 4th 1959 at Cannes, Truffaut is triumphant as one of the leading archetypal luminaries of the French New Wave Cinema.
		The 400 Blows (which could have been tellingly titled The Awkward Age) is one of the rare few films that represents childhood and its turbulent knife-edge ambiguous emotions and situations in a searching, intimate and tender way communicating to us collective emotional truths.
		Crucially then, the haunting lyricism of The 400 Blows is based on Truffaut's Renoirian focus on the extraordinary features of his own "ordinary" childhood situations and individuals, and, characteristic of Truffaut's oeuvre, he never sacrificed the abstract for the individual.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/00/6/blows.html (1950 words)

	THE 400 BLOWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The circle is completed in Love on the Run when Truffaut uses clips from the other films (most notably The 400 Blows) as the women in Doinel's life force him to revisit his relationships with them and with his own parents.
		The expression “making 400 blows” (faire les quatre cents coups) is a reference to “raising hell” or rebellion, as the only way children have to deal with an unjust world.
		One of the things that astounded me was that 400 Blows could be so fun and irreverent on the one hand, but ultimately so poignant and profound at the same time, affecting me down to my bones, and that its sequels could be such sweet comedies - also filling me with a sweet sorrow.
	www.filmnight.org /400blows.htm (1085 words)

	eBay - the 400 blows, DVD, DVDs Movies items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		LES 400 COUPS (aka THE 400 BLOWS) - (1959) Truffaut
		The 400 Blows Laserdisc Criterion Spine #173 Truffaut
		The 400 Blows [VHS Tape] (1999) Abbou, Bernard; Andri..
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	Dual Lens - 400 Blows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Part of this reaction is due to the historical and cultural significance of The 400 Blows.
		The genre of film I am loosely comparing The 400 Blows to, social problem or juvenile delinquent film generally gets it dramatic power from the injustice of an individual caught up in social forces beyond his (or, less often, her) control.
		While this is not based only upon The 400 Blows, it being his first film, it did go a long way towards establishing this reputation and it is easy to see why.
	www.duallens.com /index.asp?reviewId=52603 (952 words)

	Punknews.org \| 400 Blows guitarist leaves band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Los Angeles based 400 Blows recently announced that guitarist Christian has left the band.
		Re: 400 Blows guitarist leaves band by the_other_scott on Friday, January 20, 2006 at 2:16:02 PM (EST)
		Re: 400 Blows guitarist leaves band by kennyeah on Friday, January 20, 2006 at 12:46:16 PM (EST)
	www.punknews.org /article.php?sid=15310 (1137 words)

	French Culture \| Cinema \| Francois Truffaut: The 400 Blows / Antoine et Colette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		François Truffaut's first feature, The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups), is also his most personal.
		Told through the eyes of Truffaut's life-long cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), The 400 Blows sensitively recreates the trials of Truffaut's own difficult childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime.
		Three years after The 400 Blows took the world by storm, François Truffaut returned with the second chapter in the ongoing saga of romantic ne'er-do-well Antoine Doinel, Antoine and Colette.
	www.frenchculture.org /cinema/releases/truffaut/400blows.html (310 words)

	Theme of The 400 Blows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Critic Michael Klein stated in Film Comment that "The 400 Blows is a protest against our concepts of crime and punishment." Throughout The Four Hundred Blows (1959), Truffaut depicts protagonist Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Leaud) being subjected to multiple and various punishments.
		His teacher forces him to stand in a corner, forces him to do extra homework, and ultimately threatens to phone the boy's parents—all in the first ten minutes of the film.
		Klein argues that Truffaut wishes to get us "to regard life with tolerance." Indeed, in the film, Truffaut presents tolerance for the little indiscretions and eccentricities that make us human is what allows the soul to remain intact and at liberty.
	www.cod.edu /people/faculty/pruter/film/400blows.htm (620 words)

	400 Blows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Director Francois Truffaut's first feature film, THE 400 BLOWS, is a landmark in French cinema.
		A truly impressive film, THE 400 BLOWS is raw, honest, and intensely emotional.
		Essentially the start of the French New Wave movement, THE 400 BLOWS is also the beginning of Truffaut's Antoine Doinel cycle, which follows Leaud as Antoine in four additional films over the course of 20 years.
	www.lovefilm.com /view_dvd.php?dt_id=9412 (421 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - 400 Blows / DVD-Video
		400 Blows is a foundation for any review of film history, and they have provided a wonderful transfer.
		Francois Truffaut's 400 Blows is a beautiful, hypnotic piece of cinema, and a landmark one as well.
		Though it was his first film, Truffaut began to revolutionize European cinema into its new wave years, and began to create an appendix to the vocabulary of movie making.
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=1106&partner_id=37128848 (376 words)

	The 400 Blows
		400 Blows is one of the classics of the post WWII French New Wave.
		The title comes from a French phrase meaning "to raise hell." The story, about a young runaway, comes from director Francois Truffaut's own stormy childhood.
		TV interview with Truffaut about the global reception of The 400 Blows
	librarymedia.org /dvd_classics/Titles/400blows.htm (252 words)

	Film Review: The 400 Blows
		FranÃ§ois Truffaut's The 400 Blows follows Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre LÃ©aud) from school to home and back again.
		It is testament to the evocation of humanity that The 400 Blows does not appear dated today.
		The 400 Blows is one of the best films I have ever seen.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/0/400_blows_1959.shtml (276 words)

	Splendid E-zine reviews: 400 Blows
		With only a guitar, drum kit and vocals to play with, 400 Blows rouses a reverse Godheadsilo approach to music, summarily ignoring conventional musical wisdom in favor of a searing display of metalesque marching anthems laced with ferocious feedback and stinging vocals that lambaste the inner skull with repeated blows.
		Presumably named after Truffaut's classic French "new wave" film that analyzes oppression, escapism and portrays societal dissatisfaction, the band adequately applies these motifs to its music.
		The band may snicker at parallel critical commentaries, but 400 Blows certainly provide an altered medium that can either be repressive or refreshing, depending on your musical tastes.
	www.splendidezine.com /reviews/jul-26-99/400.html (213 words)

	See Specifications on 400 Blows at Smarter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Director François Truffaut's first feature film, THE 400 BLOWS, is a landmark in French cinema.
		François Truffaut's semiautobiographical feature film debut, THE 400 BLOWS, is one of the French New Wave's most loved and enduring masterpieces.
		Thirteen-year-old Antoine Doinel tries to cope with the various forces tearing his life apart: his parents' contentious marriage (made worse by the confined space of their apartment), his own lack of interest in school, his desire to live like an adult and have pocket money, and his adolescent desire for freedom.
	www.smarter.com /sm-400-blows--ch-4_pd-335.html (406 words)

	Punknews.org \| 400 Blows / Year Future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		400 Blows are headed out on a tour of the U.S. west coast in support of their latest Gold Standard Labs release Angel's Trumpets and Devil's Trombones.
		Later in the year both 400 Blows and Year Future will be in Europe playing shows with the Locust and Kill Me Tomorrow.
		I glanced quickly ad the headline and thought it said '400 Years.' I like this band, but they are not 400 Years.
	www.punknews.org /article.php?sid=13489 (614 words)

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