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Michel Gondry
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François Truffaut
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Hitchcock
Entretiens Hitchcock - Truffaut Audi
One of the more curious passages in Hitchcock/Truffaut takes center-stage in Part Eight of The Hitchcock/Truffaut Tapes. Before the exploration of his largely triumphal career in Hollywood commences, Alfred Hitchcock is asked to render a few observations on the current state of Cinema in Great Britain, as well as his own role in its history. Before the Master of Suspense can get an answer rolling, however, a somewhat less-than-restrained François Truffaut proceeds -- seeming aware of how awkward his interruption is -- to offer his own remarkably strident view: To him, British cinema before the arrival of Hitchcock in the late 1920s had been at best a languid affair; a strain of cinematic expression overwhelmed and brought low by a frightful inanition that seemed to have telling implications about Britain's national character.
Interview: Alfred Hitchcock and Huw Wheldon (BBC, 05/Jul/1964) -
The following interview, between Alfred Hitchcock and Huw Wheldon, was filmed for the BBC television programme "Monitor" and was first broadcast on 05/May/1964. Let’s start, Mr Hitchcock, by discussing this whole business of frightening the audiences. Do you find that audiences are frightened by different things now from the things that frightened them when you started, what, 30 years ago... 35 years ago, making films? No, I wouldn’t say so, because after all they were frightened as children. You have to remember this is all based on “Red Riding Hood”, you see?
Video of the Day: Wes Anderson 101
Earlier this year the Mueseum of Moving Image ‘s website, Moving Image Source , published a five-part video series produced by Matt Zoller Seitz detailing Wes Anderson and his various stylistic contributions to film. Working under the thesis that Anderson is the most influential filmmaker of the post-Boomer generation, Seitz explores his pantheon of artistic heroes. As true fans already know, Anderson’s mentors aren’t limited to cinema, but rather, a host of creative mediums.