FILM 1599: HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT
TRIVIA: Kent Jones
said that Brian De Palma declined to
participate because of De Palma
(2015): "...Noah Baumbach
and Jake Paltrow just did a
movie about him. They worked on that film for about 4 years. I asked [De Palma]
and he said he wanted to save what he thought about Hitchcock for their
movie." [2015]
Interpreter Helen Scott (1915-1987) is uncredited in this documentary
although her voice is heard throughout. Born in New York, she was brought up in
Paris where her father worked for the Associated Press. Decorated for her work
on the Free France resistance radio in Brazzaville, Congo, during World War 2,
she later worked for the French Film Office in New York and helped Truffaut
when he needed help with communicating in English.
Kathryn Bigelow was asked to speak in this film but she declined saying
she was "too shy".
Famous writer and screenwriter William Goldman feels that the book this
film is about ruined Hitchcock as a filmmaker. He pointed out that it made
Hitchcock self conscious and concerned with being an artist in a way that
destroyed his ability to engage audiences and be the great director he had been
up to that point.
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