Alfred Hitchcock (right) and Francois Truffaut in the film "Hitchcock/Truffaut." (Philippe Halsman/ Courtesy of Cohen Media Group)(Philippe Halsman / Cohen Media Group) David Fincher got it from ...

The documentary tells the story of a book, one of the best about film ever written, which ...

At one point in the book, Hitchcock explains his tropism toward “sophisticated blondes”: “I think the most interesting women, sexually, are the English women.” (Truffaut responds the only ...

Fifty years ago, Francois Truffaut published a book of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock. Film directors have been cribbing from it ever since. And now there’s a movie!

Kent Jones’ documentary is based on, and takes its title from, maybe the most useful book about film ever written. The book’s premise is simple: In 1962, director Francois Truffaut sat down ...

” At exactly that moment, Truffaut was still working it out with Hitchcock. Truffaut had expected that the book of interviews would take a week of meetings and a few months of research and ...

What followed was a week of interviews in a windowless Hollywood office that culminated in 27 hours of recordings in which Truffaut discussed Hitchcock’s artistry, film by film.

Culled from six days of interviews that French director François Truffaut conducted with his idol Alfred Hitchcock, the book "Hitchcock" immediately stood out from other books about movies when ...

Truffaut adapted the interviews into the 1966 book, "Hitchcock/Truffaut." That book, which analyzed each of Hitchcock's films, often frame by frame, became a touchstone for many young directors.

In 1962, the young French filmmaker François Truffaut spent a week interviewing his hero, Alfred Hitchcock, and turned the encounter into the seminal film book known in English as Hitchcock ...

The resulting book, Hitchcock/Truffaut, ultimately changed the perception of the director for many American critics and has become a necessary resource for filmmakers. Filmmaker and critic Kent ...

In Hitchcock's case, aside from "The Birds," his post-1962 films were not successes; and while Truffaut created some certifiable classics -- "Day for Night," "Small Change," "The Story of Adele H ...