![]() These critics became directors in the late fifties they won international acclaim in the nineteen-sixties, and their success as filmmakers provided retroactive validation of their ideas and their tastes. ![]() ![]() Hitchcock’s critical renown as the best director ever (as suggested by “Vertigo” being named the greatest film ever in Sight & Sound’s 2012 poll) is due to the writings of a handful of French critics in the nineteen-fifties-including Truffaut. In the new documentary “Hitchcock/Truffaut,” opening today at Film Forum and Lincoln Plaza Cinema-about the immediate impact and enduring influence of François Truffaut’s 1966 book of the same title, a collection of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock-the director Kent Jones hits the nail on the head. Photograph by Philippe Halsman / Courtesy Cohen Media Group ![]() A new documentary on François Truffaut’s book of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock illuminates the relationship between the work of the French New Wave and that of directors for major Hollywood studios. ![]()
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