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  1. Kent Jones (born 1957) [1] is an American film critic and filmmaker . Biography. Kent Jones grew up in Berkshire County, Massachusetts before attending McGill University in the late 1970s. He then transferred to New York University where he studied filmmaking.

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  2. Author Spotlight. Kent Jones is a filmmaker and writer. His documentaries include A Letter to Elia (2010), codirected with Martin Scorsese, and Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015), and he made his fiction debut with the critically acclaimed Diane (2018). He is also the author of several books of criticism.

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  4. Mar 28, 2019 · Home. Features. General. ‘Diane’ Director Kent Jones on How He Pulled Off the Perilous Transition from Film Critic to Filmmaker. One of the world's most revered film critics and programmers,...

  5. Dec 1, 2015 · Tweet. Kent Jones ’ enthralling documentary “Hitchcock/Truffaut” excavates a landmark in the history of film culture as he tackles with verve and visual élan the eight days in 1962 when the prodigiously gifted former film critic Francois Truffaut interviewed his idol, the great British-born Hollywood stylist Alfred Hitchcock.

  6. Mar 28, 2019 · Film critic, documentarian, and New York Film Festival director Kent Jones has a range of knowledge and influence that’s virtually unrivaled in the critical industry. In his writing, Jones displays a remarkable knack and hunger for tactile detail, examining a film’s aesthetic—and, truly, its soul—with a lively exactitude.

  7. Dec 1, 2015 · Kent Jones, now a critic, filmmaker, and director of the New York Film Festival, was among those budding cinephiles on whom Truffaut’s book made a major impression. And tomorrow, Jones’s...

  8. Nov 30, 2015 · Interview: Kent Jones By Steven Mears on November 30, 2015 While touring America with Jules and Jim in 1962, critic-turned-filmmaker François Truffaut was perplexed by journalists constantly asking why Alfred Hitchcock was so revered in Cahiers du Cinéma .

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