Fincher, Scorsese And More In Hitchcock/Truffaut Trailer

In 1962, François Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock met and for a week, the two iconic filmmakers delved into the secrets of the mise-en-scène, i.e. the arrangement of all the elements that will determine how a particular scene will look and feel like, meaning the placement of the actors, the camera placement, the lighting, the décor, etc. Taped and printed, Hitchcock/Truffaut became one of the seminal books for film students and lovers across the world.

Now, with Hitchcock/Truffaut, documentarian Kent Jones tries to through a series of interviews with such filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Richard Linklater, and Wes Anderson, illustrate the greatest cinema lesson of all time.

Hitchcock/Truffaut opens on December 2nd.

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.

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