Hitchcock/Truffaut

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Hitchcock/Truffaut is a documentary directed by Kent Jones (A Letter to Elia). It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and screened at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

In 1962, Francois Truffaut persuaded Alfred Hitchcock to sit with him for a week long interview in which the great British auteur would share with his young admirer the secrets of his cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting—used to produce the seminal book “Hitchcock/Truffaut”—this film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time and plunges us into the world of the creator of Psycho, The Birds and Vertigo.

Truffaut originally reached out to Hitchcock in 1962, penning a letter to the director that included the following. “Since I have become a director myself, my admiration for you has in no way weakened; on the contrary, it has grown stronger and changed in nature. There are many directors with a love of cinema, but what you possess is a love of celluloid itself and it is that which I would like to talk to you about. I would like you to grant me a tape-recorded interview which would take about eight days and would add up to about thirty hours of recording. The point of this would be to distil not a series of articles but an entire book which would be published simultaneously in New York and Paris, then, probably later, more or less everywhere in the world.”

Hitchcock/Truffaut is rated PG.