In August, I posted on The Front Row a text, previously published in the book “Action!: Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran,” put forth as the last interview ...

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 Jones ...

In 1962, the 30-year-old French New Wave director François Truffaut, whose Jules and Jim and The 400 Blows had recently garnered him international acclaim, wrote a letter to one of his filmic heroes, ...

With his documentary “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (December 2), New York Film Festival programming director Kent Jones takes us back to the legendary 1962 27-hour ...

Every self-respecting cinephile owns a dog-eared copy of Hitchcock/Truffaut, the legendary interview between French critic/filmmaker Francois Truffaut and the great Alfred Hitchcock, translated by ...

A Who’s Who of movie-buff directors (David Fincher, Wes Anderson, James Gray, Richard Linklater, Arnaud Desplechin, Martin Scorsese, etc.) schmoozes about one of the few really essential books ever ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In 1962 Francois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock sat down over eight days to talk about cinema, and those ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. The first trailer for director Kent Jones’ ...

The New Yorker has published an interview with Francois Truffaut conducted before his death in 1984. Cardullo centers the conversation around Truffaut’s first feature film, “The 400 Blows,” the ...

One of the highlights of this holiday movie season is Hitchcock/Truffaut, a new documentary about the seminal 1966 book-length interview with the master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock, conducted by the ...