Hitchcock/Truffaut

About the movie

In 1962 Hitchcock and Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting—used to produce the mythical book Hitchcock/Truffaut – this film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time and plummets us into the world of the creator of Psycho, The Birds, and Vertigo. Hitchcock’s incredibly modern art is elucidated and explained by today’s leading filmmakers: Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Arnaud Desplechin, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, James Gray, Olivier Assayas, Richard Linklater, Peter Bogdanovich and Paul Schrader.
Two of the greatest directors in the history of movies are the main subject of this unique documentary, in which some of the biggest movie-making names of our present pay their tributes to their predecessors. Directed by Kent Jones, known for collaborating with Martin Scorsese on award-winning movies such as A Letter to Elia, My Voyage to Italy and Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows.

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