Synopsis
The greatest story Hitchcock ever told
Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015 Directed by Kent Jones
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히치콕 트뤼포, Хичкок–Трюффо, Hitchcock Truffaut, 双雄对谈：希区柯克与特吕弗, Хичкок/Трюффо, Хичкок/Труфо, Хичкок - Трюфо, 希区柯克与特吕弗, Hitchcock E Truffaut
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FranceU
Cannes Film Festival
Theatrical
04 Sep 2015
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USAPG-13
05 Sep 2015
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FranceU
10 Sep 2015
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CanadaPG
21 Sep 2015
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Spain
10 Oct 2015
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18 Oct 2015
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16 Nov 2015
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21 Nov 2015
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21 Jan 2016
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04 Apr 2016
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29 Jun 2016
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Australia
29 Jun 2016
- TheatricalPG
Belgium
18 Oct 2015
- Theatrical Gent International Film Festival
Canada
10 Sep 2015
- TheatricalPG Toronto International Film Festival
Estonia
21 Nov 2015
- Theatrical
France
19 May 2015
- PremiereU Cannes Film Festival
05 Sep 2015
- TheatricalU Deauville Film Festival
Germany
16 Nov 2015
- Theatrical
Italy
04 Apr 2016
- Theatrical
Netherlands
21 Jan 2016
- Theatrical12
Spain
21 Sep 2015
- Theatrical Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival
UK
10 Oct 2015
- Theatrical London Film Festival
USA
04 Sep 2015
- TheatricalPG-13 Telluride Film Festival
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Modern cinema was born with Alfred Hitchcock, and this makes most every director who has followed - one of his children.
None of them, more adoring of their ‘father’ than François Truffaut.
After the French auteur’s first three genre defining features: “400 Blows,” “Shoot the Piano Player,” and “Jules and Jim,” he approached Hitchcock at the apex of the master of suspense’s own career.
Beginning with a fan letter sent during production of “The Birds,” Truffaut commenced a series of intense research culminating in a week long series of interviews with Hitchcock in Hollywood.
The result of those interviews would become perhaps the most important book on film ever published, “Hitchcock/Truffaut.”
Documentarian Ken Jones’ movie of the same title examines…
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I haven't read the book and the recordings it's based on, but as far as this documentary goes, it was pretty good. For the most part it's less about the book itself and more a collection of interviews with great directors such as Wes Anderson, David Fincher, Olivier Assayas, Scorsese, among others giving their thoughts on the book and commenting on the careers of both directors while giving us a background on how the whole meeting between the two came about. There are some interesting facts and most of the inputs is pretty good, but I can't deny the fact that I was hoping for more.
All in all, a good look at the meeting of these two titans that at the same time serves as a good movie story. Those who have read the book may not find anything new though.
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55/100
More like Hitchcock/Scorsese, really, as a huge chunk of the slim running time is devoted to Marty's (predictably lucid) analysis of Vertigo. The actual book gets comparatively short shrift, which isn't too surprising since that topic much more readily lends itself to an essay (or even a book of its own) than to a movie. False advertising aside, though, Jones provides a reasonably absorbing overview of Hitchcock's career, even if he focuses on a handful of key films (the big ones, surprisingly, rather than lesser-known auteurist faves) at the expense of numerous others. You'd never even know Hitch made The Trouble With Harry.
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A movie directed by a film critic (Kent Jones) about a book of film criticism in which none of the talking heads are film critics. One of the things (just one) that makes the book so essential is that its a discussion of the craft of filmmaking from two (very different) filmmakers. In adding commentary from a wide variety of other directors, Jones highlights that element of the book while widening and updating its focus: it isn't just a conversation between Hitchcock and Truffaut, but between those two men and David Fincher, and James Gray and Kyoshi Kurosawa and Arnaud Desplechin etc. Rather than a mere supplement to the book, a video essay adding moving pictures to the book's conversations,…
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David Fincher is so cunty in this, I love him. His observations give this doc the most value for me, as the precious 80-minute self-contained film school it is.
Fincher:
If you have some kind of understanding of color and design and light, directing is really three things:
You’re (1) editing behavior over time, and then (2) controlling moments that should be really fast and making them slow, and (3) moments that should be really slow and making them fast. (!!!)If you think that you can hide what your interests are, what your prurient interests are, what your noble interests are, what your fascinations are..if you think you can hide that in your work as a film director, you’re…
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Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book 'Cinema According to Hitchcock' influenced their work.
Jean-Luc Godard: We've now come to admit that a Hitchcock film can be just as important in the history of art as the publication of a book by Gide, of Aragon.Martin Scorsese: It was a spell that was cast with those films in the 50s and 60s. And its a special, blessed time for me, because I saw them as they came out.
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[Discussing VERTIGO]
Martin Scorsese: I can't really say that i believe the plot & i don't take any of it, the story, seriously. I mean as a 'realistic' story. So, the plot is just a line that you can hang things… -
Lovely supplement to a text that's maybe become a bit taken for granted over the years.
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Made this my first viewing of 2023 because it’s my film school and I’ll be needing it for finally writing my first script this year 😌✨✨✨✨✨
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I love watching documentaries about Hitchcock almost as much as I love watching his movies…almost!
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A welcome tribute to one of the all-time great titans of cinema, Hitchcock/Truffaut is an insightful, informative & illuminating documentary that borrows its narrative from a series of interviews which were conducted by French filmmaker François Truffaut in an attempt to dissect & discern the style, themes, motifs & visual storytelling that define an Alfred Hitchcock film.
Directed by Kent Jones, the film provides an interesting glimpse into the mind of the Master of Suspense and his approach to storytelling. Before getting to the good bits, it offers a brief overview of both filmmakers, their early years in the film industry, and the events that led to the interviews which in turn resulted in the seminal book of the same name. And it…
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A phenomenal passage of cinematic theory and technique from one generation to the next.
In 1966, these two artists sat down to discuss their beliefs on filmmaking. At the time Hitchcock had developed over forty features while François Truffaut had completed only three, including the achievement film The 400 Blows.
Not only did Hitchcock have a profound influence on Truffaut, he had an enormous impact on the following generation of filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and David Fincher. As a Fincher fanatic, it is so interesting to hear his thoughts on the Master of Suspence. Fincher describes Hitchcock’s talents by explaining what the director does in three simple elements: edit performances over time, make short moments long, and…
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