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In 1962 30-year-old French film critic and budding auteur François Truffaut conducted an in-depth, eight-day interview with 63-year-old Alfred Hitchcock at Universal Studios. This resulted in a book that regarded the commercially successful Hollywood director, for the first time, as an artist. The tome became a cornerstone of 1960s/1970s cinephilia. In his new film that The Hollywood Reporter calls “catnip for film buffs,” Kent Jones, programming director of the New York Film Festival, looks back at that momentous meeting (which was recorded but not filmed) and asks other cinema luminaries (Wes Anderson, David Fincher, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, Richard Linklater, Peter Bogdanovich, Olivier Assayas, et al.) to reflect on the impact of the book and Hitchcock’s genius. Choice film clips illustrate their points.