Hitchcock/Truffaut

Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM, built around one of cinema's most consequential conversations. In 1962, François Truffaut sat down with Alfred Hitchcock for a marathon series of recorded interviews. The book that came out of those sessions became required reading for filmmakers worldwide.

Director Kent Jones weaves the original recordings with fresh commentary from directors who grew up with the book open on their desks: Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Richard Linklater, Paul Schrader. Each one takes a specific film or sequence and explains, shot by shot, what Hitchcock was actually doing — how the cuts create dread, why the camera moves when it does, what Hitchcock understood about an audience that most directors still miss.

This is less a biography than a masterclass assembled from two generations of obsession. If you care about how films are constructed, not just how they feel, stream Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) in full on iFILM.