![]() ![]() “Hitchcock/Truffaut,” the book in which the master of suspense exposed his most private creative mind in interviews with François Truffaut, is turning fifty, and has become the inspiration for an eponymous documentary, by Kent Jones, which has just been released on HBO. A rare highlight in this overcooked season is Alfred Hitchcock’s birthday, which will fall on Saturday this year, ending an eerily Hitchcockian week. ![]() Desperate vacationers crack open books they’ve spent all year piling other books on top of the music of the early month is perplexing, at best. The cineplex is filled with movies that-like cans of split-pea soup bought immemorially long ago-reëmerge after being dismissed as too paltry for early summer and too lousy for a fall release. ![]() Photograph by Philippe Halsman / MagnumĮarly August is traditionally the back shelf of the year’s cultural pantry. A half century after its publication, Alfred Hitchcock’s conversation with François Truffaut in “Hitchcock/Truffaut” remains one of the most enthralling studies of creative thought in print. ![]()
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