Kent Jones & Noah Baumbach Chat About Hitchcock/Truffaut

Kent Jones’s new documentary, Hitchcock/Truffaut, based on the interview session between the two filmmakers, will open tomorrow from the Cohen Media Group.

In 1962 Hitchcock and Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting—used to produce the mythical book Hitchcock/Truffaut—this film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time and plummets us into the world of the creator of Psycho, The Birds, and Vertigo. Hitchcock’s incredibly modern art is elucidated and explained by today’s leading filmmakers: Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Arnaud Desplechin, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, James Gray, Olivier Assayas, Richard Linklater, Peter Bogdanovich and Paul Schrader.

Jones was joined by Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha, Kicking and Screaming) at the Film Society of Lincoln Center to discuss the documentary, and the Q&A is now available to watch online.