“ If you think you can hide your prurient interests as a director, you’re crazy,” says David Fincher, one of several directors testifying before the camera.
Throughout “Hitchcock/Truffaut,” one gets the feeling that the visual nature of directing forces a filmmaker to deal with his or her obsessions, explicitly or implicitly. surprise.” This is one of the most interesting passages in the film, a moment where the interviewer and the subject exchange places, comparing notes as footage of Truffaut’s film plays onscreen. We hear Hitchcock discuss, in directorial terms, movies such as “ Sabotage,” “ Vertigo” and “ The Lodger.” We also hear Truffaut describing a scene from “ The 400 Blows” as a follow-up to Hitch’s description of “suspense vs. Jones supplements his film clips and interviews with audio from the original 27 hours of interview recordings (17 hours of which are available online). Hitchcock is in the air that today’s directors breathe, and “Hitchcock/Truffaut” aims to remind us of this fact. Though Hitchcock made his last movie (“ Family Plot") 40 years ago, he continues to influence in an almost transparent manner. The film is also a completely entertaining and informative gift to movie lovers, a work constructed with care, humor and insight.
Jones’ take on “Hitchcock/Truffaut” is equal parts adaptation, CliffsNotes guide and commentary by a slew of directors influenced by Hitchcock’s work. Fast-forward to 2015, where film critic and documentarian Kent Jones brings us the movie version of this essential book.
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