Hitchcock/Truffaut

February 10, 2016 · Scruffy City Hall · 8:00 p.m.

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 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.

“A film buffs nirvana… A resourceful, illuminating and very welcome documentation both of filmmaking and the making of history.” — Tood McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter

“‘A little slice of film buff-heaven.” — Fionnuala Halligan, Screen Daily

About the Filmmaker

Kent Jones was raised in western Massachusetts. A leading film critic and long-time Deputy Editor of Film Comment, he was appointed Director of Programming at the New York Film Festival in 2012. He has directed the feature documentaries Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (’07), A Letter to Elia (’10), and Hitchcock/​Truffaut (’15).