UO students, faculty, staff, and the community are invited to a free screening of Hitchcock/Truffaut followed by a Q&A with Director Kent Jones.

Thursday, April 11, 2019
7:00 p.m.
Bijou Art Cinemas (492 East 13th Avenue)
Free and open to the community

Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.  
6:15 pm – Priority seating with UO ID
6:30 pm – Community seating

“A resourceful, illuminating and very welcome documentation both of filmmaking and the making of history.” –The Hollywood Reporter

Winner – Best Documentary – Denver International Film Festival 2015
Nominee – Golden Eye Award – Cannes Film Festival 2015

Photo by Philippe Halsman/Magnum Photos

Synopsis

In 1962, Francis Truffaut persuaded Alfred Hitchcock to sit with him for a week-long interview in which the great British auteur would share with his young admirer the secrets of his cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting–used to produce the seminal book Hitchcock/Truffaut–this film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time and plunges us into the world of the creator of Psycho, The Birds and Vertigo.

Directed by Kent Jones. 2015 / 80 minutes

About Kent Jones

One of Variety’s "10 Directors to Watch for 2019"

Kent Jones is an internationally recognized filmmaker, film critic, and festival programmer.  He was named one of Variety’s 10 directors to watch for 2019 for his debut fiction film, Diane (2019), which won Best Narrative Feature and Screenplay at the Tribeca Film Festival. One of the great thinkers on directors and cinema history, Jones wrote and directed the documentaries Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) and Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007). He has collaborated on a number of film projects with Martin Scorsese–including A Letter to Elia (2010) and My Voyage to Italy (1999)–and was executive director of the World Cinema Foundation, a film preservation non-profit founded by Scorsese.  Jones is also known for his sharp and personal film criticism, collected in the 2007 book, Physical Evidence:  Selected Film Criticism. Since 2012, Jones has served as the director of the New York Film Festival, the premier showcase for international cinema in the United States. Photo By Karloz Byrnison, CC BY 2.0. Adapted from this image.