Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
Country: FR/US
Technical: col/bw 79m
Director: Kent Jones
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
Directors look back at the influence on their craft of the French critic-turned-director's collection of interviews with the celebrated director, who for the first time was shown to be more than just a showman, but a visual artist whose fears and desires are unabashedly exposed through his work.
Review:
Brilliantly concise and pointedly illustrated exegesis of the Truffaut book, embellished with bits of home movie footage, sequences from Truffaut's own films, and testimony from the likes of Fincher and Scorsese. Vertigo and Psycho get the lion's share of the time, but there is considerable scope given to the selection of material, for once not neglecting the British period.
Country: FR/US
Technical: col/bw 79m
Director: Kent Jones
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
Directors look back at the influence on their craft of the French critic-turned-director's collection of interviews with the celebrated director, who for the first time was shown to be more than just a showman, but a visual artist whose fears and desires are unabashedly exposed through his work.
Review:
Brilliantly concise and pointedly illustrated exegesis of the Truffaut book, embellished with bits of home movie footage, sequences from Truffaut's own films, and testimony from the likes of Fincher and Scorsese. Vertigo and Psycho get the lion's share of the time, but there is considerable scope given to the selection of material, for once not neglecting the British period.
Country: FR/US
Technical: col/bw 79m
Director: Kent Jones
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
Directors look back at the influence on their craft of the French critic-turned-director's collection of interviews with the celebrated director, who for the first time was shown to be more than just a showman, but a visual artist whose fears and desires are unabashedly exposed through his work.
Review:
Brilliantly concise and pointedly illustrated exegesis of the Truffaut book, embellished with bits of home movie footage, sequences from Truffaut's own films, and testimony from the likes of Fincher and Scorsese. Vertigo and Psycho get the lion's share of the time, but there is considerable scope given to the selection of material, for once not neglecting the British period.