Kent Jones, Hitchcock/Truffaut

In Hitchcock/Truffaut documentarian and New York Film Festival director Kent Jones (Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows) examines the extraordinary effect of the 1967 English publication of transcripts from French-critic-turned-filmmaker Francois Truffaut’s 27 hours of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, Vertigo). Just as method acting did in the 50's, it forever changed cinema, the auteur theory, and Hitchcock’s standing. Jones talks about his documentary’s origins and why he sought soundbites from Martin Scorsese, Olivier Assayas, David Fincher, Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, and other contemporary filmmakers.

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