Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut
“HITCHCOCK / TRUFFAUT” My rating: B+ (Opens Feb./ 27 at the Tivoli)
79 minutes | MPAA rating: PG-13
By now it’s an article of faith among film lovers that Alfred Hitchcock was far more than a mere maker of suspense movies.
He was a true cinema genius who used the medium to plumb the depths of his own soul, his phobias, his impish sense of humor.
There’s no shortage of film-themed documentaries that have dealt in some way with Sir Alfred and his career, but “Hitchcock / Truffaut” introduces a new element by allowing Hitch to comment on his movies.
In 1965 French NewWave filmmaker Francois Truffaut sat down with his idol in an office at the Universal Studios in Hollywood. For an entire week they talked movies, aided by a translator. The result was Truffaut’s classic 1966 book Hitchcock by Truffaut.
Fifty years later the audio recordings that were the basis for that book have been utilized by filmmaker Kent Jones for this documentary. (more…)
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