The police kept the crowds outside at bay.' The guests, who had been invited by telegram, were checked in at the door by Universal’s security men. 'There was no coffin – it had been removed to an unknown destination. In the preface to that revised edition, Truffaut recalled a memorial Mass in a small church on Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills, shortly after his friend’s funeral in 1980. The erudite but unstuffy conversations between both men also revealed that Hitchcock was a director of supreme technical wizardry, albeit one whose creative vision was not easily realised, being rather the product of great effort and concentration.Ī revised edition appeared in France in 1983, published in English the following year (Interestingly, both directors are credited authors). The original book of interviews was published in 1966 and offered an illuminating portrait to the cinema-going public of the man who had been, until then, the relatively mysterious director of successful suspense films such as Psycho and The Birds. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.

We need your consent to load this YouTube content We use YouTube to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Hitchcock agreed and the result was this fascinating series of interviews, recently the subject of an acclaimed documentary. The brilliant French director Francois Truffaut (1932-1984) first interviewed his equally illustrious idol, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) in 1955 for the magazine Cahiers de Cinema.Įager to meet him again in 1962, the Frenchman wrote to the veteran director expressing his wish to ask him some 500 questions solely concerning his career.

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