One of Hitchcock's trademarks has been his habit of shooting on location and working the location itself into the plot. It was an accident - or was it? She sets out to murder the five men who were responsible - or were they? Jeanne Moreau plays a widow whose husband was shot and killed as they stood on the church steps together. He claims his film is consciously made in the style of Hitchcock.Ī lot of the Hitchcock elements are there. Now, with "The Bride Wore Black ," Truffaut has completed his study. The result was Truffaut's fascinating book, "Hitchcock/Truffaut," in which the two directors discuss every single film Hitchcock ever made. Two years ago, he persuaded Hitchcock to agree to 50 hours of interviews. Truffaut, long an admirer of Hitchcock, has seen his films time and again. When Jean-Luc Godard made " Breathless" (1960), he dedicated his first film to Monogram Pictures, the Allied Artists subsidiary that specialized in B action movies and Charlie Chan. DeMille's vulgarity and Stanley Kramer's phony liberalism, but ignored the true Hollywood masters of action and suspense: John Ford, Howard Hawks, Don Siegel, Hitchcock. The new generation of French filmmakers has argued for a long time that we Americans haven't honored our best directors.
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