Directing is like sex, the old saying goes – you never get to see how the other guy does it. But in 1962, François Truffaut spent a week in a room at Universal Studios interviewing Alfred Hitchcock.

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.

He occasionally takes over Hitchcock/Truffaut, but since the film only rarely slows down and lets us hear artists pick apart approaches and technique, Scorsese’s sustained arias win the day: He ...

The unmissable documentary Hitchcock/Truffaut begins its run at the Vancity Theatre today (December 18)—"an early Christmas present for movie lovers," in Straight critic Ken Eisner's words—with ...

Closing out the cinematic year we’ll get perhaps the finest love letter imaginable. Kent Jones, who is busy heading up the New York Film Festival, premiered his documentary Hitchcock/Truffaut — which ...

But don't expect many such thorough explications. Jones's film, which comets through Hitch highlights before getting caught up in the gravity of Psycho and Vertigo, is no substitute for the book ...

They could have called it Hitchcock/Truffaut/Scorsese/Fincher. Less an adaptation of one of the great books about film than a feature-length recommendation, Kent ...

Sometimes it takes an outsider’s perspective to see clearly what has always been right in front of you. The filmmakers of the French New Wave - who revolutionized world cinema in the late 1950s and ...