Based on the original recordings of this meeting-used to produce the mythical book Hitchcock/Truffaut-this film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time and plummets us into the world of the creator of Psycho, The Birds and Vertigo.
In 1962, Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the original recordings of the encounter, HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT also features interviews with Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Martin Scorsese, Olivier Assayas, and many other directors whose lives were transformed by these two artists.ĭon’t miss this if you love anything about art. Now this extraordinary American/European engagement is the subject of a new documentary by Kent Jones and Serge Toubiana. It certainly changed Hitchcock’s reputation forever, and it has been on the bookshelf of every film student ever since.
It was an epochal book, a revolutionary book, that focused on form. Truffaut published the exchange in 1966 as Le Cinéma selon Alfred Hitchcock. In 1962, young François Truffaut spent a week in a room with Alfred Hitchcock at Universal Studios, learning about his movies work. If you see one film about the art of making a film, make it this one. Carey and Helen Kuhn Carey Chair in Modern Communication at the University of Notre Dame. Susan Ohmer is an associate professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre and the William T.
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