n avril 1962, François Truffaut adresse une longue lettre à Alfred Hitchcock : "Cher monsieur Hitchcock... A Los Angeles, Hitchcock achève son 48ème film, Les oiseaux. Il télégraphie à Truffaut pour lui fixer la date de leur premier rendez-vous : le 13 août 1962, jour de son 63ème anniversaire, dans ses bureaux à Universal. En travaillant il y a quelques années sur les archives de Truffaut pour les besoins d'un film du Carrosse, on a retrouvé une boïte. Cette boîte contenait 52 bobines d'une demi-heure : les entretiens originaux Hitchcock et Truffaut, avec la complicité d'Helen Scott. Voici donc les enregistrements des conversations entre Hitchcock et Truffaut.
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Friday, August 14, 2020
LES ENTRETIENS HITCHOCK-TRUFFAUT
In April 1962, François Truffaut sent a long letter to Alfred Hitchcock:
"Dear Mr. Hitchcock ...
During my discussions with foreign journalists and especially in New York, I realized that we often get a little superficial idea of your work. On the other hand, the propaganda that we made at Cahiers du Cinéma was excellent for France, but inadequate for America, because it was too intellectual. Since I started directing, my admiration for you has not weakened, on the contrary, it has grown and changed. I've seen each of your films five to six times, and now I watch them more from a manufacturing perspective. A lot of filmmakers have a love for cinema, but you have a love for film and that's what I would like to talk to you about. I that you grant me an interview on the tape recorder which would continue for a week or so and would total about thirty hours of recording, and this in order to draw not articles, but an entire book which would be published simultaneously in New York and Paris, and then probably all over the world. "
In Los Angeles, Hitchcock completes his 48th film, The Birds. He telegraphed to Truffaut to set him the date of their first meeting: August 13, 1962, his 63rd birthday, in his offices at Universal.
Truffaut, who does not speak English, arrives accompanied by Helen Scott, an American friend who, he tells Hitchcock, "practices simultaneous translation with such speed that we will have the impression of having spoken together without intermediary".
For a whole week, several hours a day, Truffaut talks with Hitchcock about his entire career, film by film, covering all his work up to the Birds.
The Hitchcock-Truffaut interview book published in 1966 has been constantly reissued. It is without doubt still the most famous cinema book today. It is available from Gallimard in an edition revised and corrected in 1983 by Truffaut, one year before his death.
While working a few years ago on the Truffaut archives for the needs of a film of the Coach, we found a box. This box contained 52 half-hour reels: the original Hitchcock and Truffaut interviews, with the help of Helen Scott.