Great minds think alike, and great minds think for themselves. In 1962, film critic and French New Wave director François Truffaut sat down with Alfred Hitchcock to record a week-long interview about Hitchcock’s entire body of work. I would have given anything to just stand in the corner and listen. And now I don't have to, because all 25 audiotapes of the interviews are on YouTube, thanks to user French Moviegoer. Take a listen below: These sessions inspired one of the best books on filmmaking, Hitchcock/Truffaut, the first edition of which was published in 1966 and has been in print ever since. It was a testament to commercial filmmaking being taken seriously, and to the influence of American cinema on the rest of the world. At the time, Hitchcock had been deemed a director of entertaining movies, but many said he lacked substance. Sure, he got his fifth directing Oscar nomination for Psycho, but was being a storyteller who was focused on the audience actually artistic? In 2015, documentarian Kent Jones made a documentary about the book and the interviews. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 19 October, 2020