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 ...

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!

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 ...

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 ...

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.

” 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Those creators—Martin Scorsese, David Fincher and Wes Anderson—are among the interview subjects in Jones’ Hitchcock/Truffaut, which, like the book from which it takes its name, aims to use ...

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 ...