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Documentaries like Hitchcock/Truffaut

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The 3 reasons people love Hitchcock/Truffaut

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  1. You love Hitchcock's classics and want to see them again.

  2. You like two directors talking shop about how a scene works.

  3. You like hearing filmmakers explain what they learned from one book.

Picks that share your reasons

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  • Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film2001

    • Hitchcock's classics and want to see them again

    Good for you if you love Dr. Strangelove, 2001 and the films around them.

  • The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing2004

    • Hitchcock's classics and want to see them again

    Good for you if you like seeing how silent films and classics were put together.

  • They'll Love Me When I'm Dead2018

    • Hitchcock's classics and want to see them again

    Good for you if you love old Hollywood and the era of Welles.

  • I Am Not Your Negro2017

    • two directors talking shop about how a scene works
    • hearing filmmakers explain what they learned from one book

    Good for you if you want Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King through James Baldwin's eyes.

  • Chronicle of a Summer1961

    • Hitchcock's classics and want to see them again
    • two directors talking shop about how a scene works
    • hearing filmmakers explain what they learned from one book

    Good for you if you like black and white films that invented a way of filming.

  • 78/522017

    • hearing filmmakers explain what they learned from one book

    Good for you if you like learning how one scene from 1960 changed horror films.

  • Side by Side2012

    • two directors talking shop about how a scene works

    Good for you if you like hearing Nolan, Lynch and Scorsese argue film versus digital.

  • De Palma2016

    • Hitchcock's classics and want to see them again
    • two directors talking shop about how a scene works

    Good for you if you like a director telling candid stories about his own films.

  • Looking for Richard1996

    • two directors talking shop about how a scene works

    Good for you if you love Shakespeare's language spoken out loud.

  • No Direction Home: Bob Dylan2005

    • hearing filmmakers explain what they learned from one book

    Good for you if you like the sixties, from the folk scene to the protest years.

  • The Celluloid Closet1996

    • Hitchcock's classics and want to see them again
    • hearing filmmakers explain what they learned from one book

    Good for you if you like seeing a century of Hollywood through one lens.

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