In 1962 Hitchcock and Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting—used to produce the mythical book Hitchcock/Truffaut—this film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time and plummets us into the world of the creator of Psycho, The Birds, and Vertigo. Hitchcock’s incredibly modern art is elucidated and explained by today’s leading filmmakers: Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Arnaud Desplechin, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, James Gray, Olivier Assayas, Richard Linklater, Peter Bogdanovich and Paul Schrader

We will be screening Hitchcock classic THE BIRDS on Sunday March 27th. Please also join us on 27th April when we screen Truffaut's DAY FOR NIGHT from 35mm in collaboration with the UWE film society.

"Fascinating" ★★★★ Mark Kermode, The Observer

"A seminal encounter brought vividly to light" ★★★★ Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

"Brings a new understanding of the language of the movies" ★★★★ Kate Muir, The Times

"Is to film geeks what a sauce-stained copy of the Moro cookbook is to budding chefs" ★★★★ Time Out