The resulting book, Hitchcock/Truffaut, ultimately changed the perception of the director for many American critics and has become a necessary resource for filmmakers. Filmmaker and critic Kent Jones ...

With his documentary “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (December 2), New York Film Festival programming director Kent Jones takes us back to the legendary 1962 27-hour ...

François Truffaut was a revered member of the French New Wave, but few people know about the filmmaker’s longtime friend and colleague, Helen Scott. Serge Toubiana, the president of Unifrance and the ...

A Who’s Who of movie-buff directors (David Fincher, Wes Anderson, James Gray, Richard Linklater, Arnaud Desplechin, Martin Scorsese, etc.) schmoozes about one of the few really essential books ever ...

Given his credentials — a widely admired essayist, chairman of the New York Film Festival’s selection committee, a noted documentary filmmaker, and a key player in The Film Foundation — and the ...

The first trailer for director Kent Jones’ wonderful documentary Hitchcock/Truffaut has been released online. Having recently seen the film at the Toronto International Film Festival, I can confirm ...

You know what this is? Nirvana for movie lovers. Film historian Kent Jones, the director of the New York Film Festival, triumphantly takes us back to 1962 when the young French filmmaker Francois ...

"Nouvelle Vague" reimagines the making of Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless," one of the most celebrated films of the 20th ...