{"id":10851,"date":"2011-02-14T21:34:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T21:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=10851"},"modified":"2016-06-29T04:00:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T03:00:37","slug":"the-hitchcock-and-truffaut-tapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/02\/14\/the-hitchcock-and-truffaut-tapes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hitchcock and Truffaut Tapes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1962 Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut<\/a><\/strong> carried out a series of extensive interviews with Alfred Hitchcock<\/a><\/strong> at his offices in Universal Studios.<\/p>\n

Recorded to audio tape, the content was eventually edited down into Truffaut’s famous book Hitchcock<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A landmark meeting of two great directors, the conversations cover Hitchcock’s life and career in great detail as they discuss films such as Blackmail<\/a> (1929), The 39 Steps<\/a> (1935), Sabotage<\/a> (1939), Rebecca<\/a> (1940), Shadow of a Doubt<\/a> (1943), Lifeboat<\/a> (1944), Spellbound<\/a> (1945), Notorious<\/a> (1946), Rope<\/a> (1948), Strangers on a Train<\/a> (1951), The Birds<\/a> (1963), Rear Window<\/a> (1954), Vertigo<\/a> (1958), North By Northwest<\/a> (1959) and Psycho<\/a> (1960).<\/p>\n

Truffaut did not speak much English, so he hired Helen Scott of the French Film Office in New York to act as the translator for the sessions.<\/p>\n

The half hour sessions were subsequently broadcast on French radio and in 2006 Tom Sutpen started posting audio files on his blog ‘If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n