![]() ![]() These are photographs of what the people were talking about (to adapt a famous phrase of Hitchcock’s), and insistent reminders of what is at the core of the “pure cinema” that was their ongoing subject: images that both stand alone and link with other images. Influential film critic, leading New Wave director and heir to the humanistic cinematic tradition of Jean Renoir, François Truffaut made films that reflected his three professed passions: a love of cinema, an interest in male-female relationships and a fascination with children. The Alfred Hitchcock–François Truffaut interview in the summer of 1962-actually a six-day series of conversations between the two directors, filled with mutual interrogation, self-scrutiny, and self-disclosure on both sides-is legendary, and, as it turns out, it’s going to take repeated efforts and various media to adequately and accurately “print the legend.” It took five years for Truffaut to shape the transcription of their always interesting and substantive but meandering discussion into what he called the “Hitchbook,” supplemented by carefully chosen illustrations from the films. ![]()
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