Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Prismark10 In 1962 Francois Truffaut the critic and filmmaker interviewed Alfred Hitchcock over eight days in 1962 at his offices at Universal Studios with an interpreter present although Hitchcock could speak French.The encounter led to Truffaut's 1967 book about Hitchcock's filming techniques and elevated his reputation from just being a commercially successful director of thrillers to an auteur.This documentary examines the encounter and revisits both Hitchcock and Truffaut as filmmakers but also interviews directors such as Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Wes Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich and Richard Linklater who talk about the importance of Hitchcock the director and what they learned from him.Film historian Kent Jones has made an entertaining film but it has too much ground to cover and skimps through Hitchcock's early years in Britain and surprisingly not one British director is interviewed. I wanted to learn more about the various techniques and how he got on with the actors, who Hitchcock likened to cattle.Given the age difference between the two men, Hitchcock was over twice as old as Truffaut, they got on very well with each other and sadly Truffaut died only a few years after Hitchcock's death.

morrison-dylan-fan 1997:After watching Hitchcock's superb Young and Innocent my dad showed me a fantastic looking book called Hitchcock/Truffaut,which along with having an interesting interview on the title,was also filled with startling still images.2016:Seeing a few tantalising clips of their new shows,I decided to take a look at Channel 4 on Demand for new eps.Expecting to find Comedy titles on the front page,I was surprised to discover that a doc had recently been made about the book!,which led to me ing Hitchcock/Truffaut.The outline of the doc:Despite coming from a completely different world of cinema, François Truffaut finds himself to become a huge fan of fellow film maker Alfred Hitchcock. Interested in being able to discuss Hitchcock work in depth, Truffaut asks Hitchcock if he can do an extensive interview with him,and turn it into a book.Hiring interpreter Helen Scott to help,Hitchcock and Truffaut get set to meet.View on the film:Whilst strangely offering no discussion on what was a major collaboration for Hitchcock, directors Serge Toubiana & Kent Jones use Bernard Herman's classic scores to underline the pace of conversations,from the lively,snappy exchanges over Psycho,to the quiet contemplation over Vertigo. Bringing the voices of the directors off the page,Jones and Toubiana unveil an extraordinary amount of audio and visual archive,with the level that Hitchcock let his guard down being highlighted in Hitchcock asking for the tape recorder to be turned off for "off the record" stories. Allowing others to in on this famous filmmaking encounter, Jones and Toubiana look at the impact of the book,and expand on some of the original conversations with energetic interviews from David Fincher and Martin Scorsese,as Truffaut meets Hitchcock.

George Wright HitchcockTruffaut is a documentary about director Alfred Hitchcock inspired by the book of the same name produced by François Truffaut shortly before his death in the early 1980's. The documentary shows pictures of Truffaut and Hitchcock during the course of Truffaut's extensive interview with Alfred Hitchcock as well as frames from some of his greatest films. This film provides a great understanding of Hitchcock as an artist or "auteur", a term associated with great directors who told their stories using the medium of film, not simply shooting actors performing a story. The visuals for Hitchcock were the essence of his art. He planned the sequence of a movie scene by scene and then used each scene in a series to make the film. As one of the interviewees pointed out, he "wrote" the story using the camera. We see modern directors, particularly Martin Scorsese and Peter Bogdonavitch, commenting on the artist's method of filmmaking. Scorsese saw Hitchcock as a ground-breaker who brought about a new sense of what film was about and freed it from the staid conventions that had grown up around it. Hitchcock himself was trained in filmmaking during the silent era when movies did not rely on sound but told the stories through the visuals. It was very revealing to see works like Saboteur, Vertigo and Psycho analyzed by showing the visual imagination behind the scenes that gripped audiences in each of these works. There was a great friendship between Hitchcock and Truffaut. Truffaut greatly respected and elevated the stature of the man, who had been overlooked to a large extent by Hollywood, which failed to give him an Oscar until he received a special award near the end of his life. Of course Hitchcock was very successful but his true artistry was overlooked by his huge audience, which didn't see the brilliant imagination behind the camera. This is a great documentary that anyone interested in movie making would benefit from viewing.

Danny Blankenship This documentary "Hitchcock/Truffaut" is interesting and informative for the way it details the way the master of suspense worked on his films as Hitch was an icon and inspiration to many as you and many others know his movies left a lasting impact! However many may not know that a 1966 book was published called "Hitchcock/Truffaut" it was a book on cinema and how that the work of Alfred had influenced French director and writer Truffaut. As during this film you the viewer get to hear the actual audio recordings of the interview for the book and see clips from many of Hitch's films and it gives in detail Alfred's background to the days even when he started in advertising. And it talks about how Alfred saw the world as a one world view director as often calling his actors and actresses cattle, clearly Alfred was demanding as discussed is how he shot his films with an emphasis on space and geography. And anyone who's watched a lot of Hitchcock movies know that his camera work was top notch the way he did scenes at angles the documentary talks of this also. Aside from the clips and talk of the impact of his movies other well known directors talk about how Alfred influenced their work as in the film Wes Anderson, David Fincher, and Richard Linklater to name a few give their take on Hitch. Overall good informative documentary that was an interesting look at the master of suspense.