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      • A key founder and proponent of the so-called auteur theory, which stated, very roughly, that the best films could be viewed as the work of one sensibility, Truffaut saw Hitchcock as a prime example of this theory in action. Their approximately 12 hours of discussions served as the basis of his influential study of the director, Hitchcock.
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  2. May 12, 2015 · “I indulged in a form of necrophilia,” the director Alfred Hitchcock told François Truffaut during a week-long series of interviews they did in Hollywood in 1962.

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    The audio tapes of the interviews have not been released commercially. However, portions of the tapes were used for a French radio broadcast by the station "France Culture".

    The following is an interview from the French "Apostrophes" television programme (13/Apr/1984), in which Bernard Pivot talks to Truffaut and Roman Polanski about Hitchcock. Truffaut had just released the "Definitive" version of the book and this would be his last public appearance — just six months later, he died from a brain tumour. The video is i...

    Jump up Lost in Translation? Listening to the Hitchcock–Truffaut Interview" in A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock (2011) edited by Thomas Leitch & Leland Poague72814
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  3. Listening to the HitchcockTruffaut Interview", Janet Bergstrom suggested that the audio recordings of the Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut interviews should be transcribed, as they often differ from what actually appeared in Truffaut's book.

  4. Aug 12, 2016 · In 1962, Truffaut, still young and radiant with technical discovery, interviewed Hitchcock about his work, using a translator. The transcript was published—Truffaut, who ended up obsessing...

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  5. Nov 12, 2015 · French New Wave director Francois Truffaut interviewed the film-maker Alfred Hitchcock over eight days in 1962. A new documentary brings to life their exchange – which survives as an audio...

  6. Dec 2, 2015 · 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 ...

  7. Fifty years ago, Francois Truffaut published a book of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock. Film directors have been cribbing from it ever since. And now there’s a movie!