I seriously – and I mean seriously – need to watch the documentary detailed here. I just stumbled over it, but now I’m extremely excited. It is about Truffaut meeting Hitchcock, and the conversation they had. The film is said to be a fresh appraisal of Hitchcock, at the heart of which is an audio interview Hitchcock gave to Truffaut. Of course, the writers of cahiers du cinema were great admirers of Hitchcock’s work; when Truffaut sent him a letter asking for an interview, he was flattered. Their conversation went to the heart of film: two film-makers having a passionate engagement with cinema. Thus it takes me right back to the subject of my masters thesis, which I’m still very interested in. From what I gleam from the short video in the link, their conversation reveals alot about the cahiers groups’ approach to film, and the formation of auteur theory. I urgently need to get hold of this documentary, not to mention the book it is based upon.