François Truffaut Salutes Alfred Hitchcock at AFI Life Achievement Award

[DeepandJazzy]

Actually, Hitchcock didn't want really to be there. Receiving a prize for a life-achievement was like assisting to his funeral. And add the fact that he was an introverted man, who enjoyed intimacy and being surrounded only by his beloved ones and his health issues. No wonder he didn't seemed very friendly that night.

[annalovesfilm]

I love Truffaut!..and I also adore his accent. :) With Hitchcock they are my favorite directors.

[gabrielapriori1]

I fall in love of Truffaut watching this video!!! His accent is so funny and sexy!

[WheepyProductions]

1:02 Is it a start of smile ?

[Claypool62]

2 of the best directors ever in the same place!!!!! These guys understood cinema

[alecton]

Hitchcock is not impressed

[koolfrnd123]

A master praises a master

[284436]

I really wish they would show the whole vide

[joematters]

François Truffaut is one of the most beautiful film directors the world will ever know. He was a very beautiful man with a rare understanding of life on Earth. He had a beautiful heart for genius with the determination to explain the truths in teaching: a respect for love and how to cope with (the meaning of) pain. He portrayed rare and raw truths through his films by showing to us the importance of taking into consideration millions of perspectives at once.

[jazz4]

Hitchcock's face sums up we british...."stop giving me praise, you ass".

[CalicoSnot]

@jazz4 Hitchcock's face sums up US British.

grammar, please!

[SIngli6]

@jazz4

Yes. I can imagine him thinking: "What the bloody hell is this Frenchie wuffling on about?!

[Commando303X]

Hitchcock looks dead — is he sick...?

[wildsmiley]

@Commando303X He was. He died about a year after this tribute.

[Gallifrey1991]

"zey belong here more zan we". love Truffaut

[generalcircle]

Gooooooood Evennnnnning...

[15willywonka]

I love Francois Truffaut, I loved him in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I think I can understand his english a little bit.

[duckman531]

Why was Truffaut always so self conscious of his English? His English was always so easy to understand!

[snafflefilms]

give us a smile hitch you miserable fat fucker !.. that's Truffaut talkin and humouring you.. show some respect you twaty egoist... ps.. don't think your films are all that either... Spielberg took your technique and exploited it, revolutionising it and transforming your cinema into what we have now... too many locked off shots dude..

[nokiddingable]

@snafflefilms

The fact that Hitch doesnt "smile" when he gets complimented makes you call him "fat fucker"???? LMAO.

What a dimwit you are!!! LMAO at your endless stupidity.

[bill3979]

@snafflefilms You're a complete moron. If your understanding of film and your appreciation of Hitchcock is as limited as your comment indicates, you'll have a very short and unsuccessful career in filmmaking. 

[snafflefilms]

Oh I understand Hitchcock just fine thank you.. won a film award 2 weeks ago and i forget to mention i lecture film in the day and i'm an editor as a specialism.. I appreciate the work of hitch.. but let's face it.. it's half a century old now and unfortunately for him his techniques has been vastly superseded in this day and age.. I should also mention one of my faves is rear window.. so Bill... shove that in your pipe and smoke it...

[bill3979]

@snafflefilms His techniques have been superseded, as in replaced because they were inferior? I guess you think Shakespeare's work has been superseded by writers who use computers instead of pens. You say Speilberg "took his technique". If Hitchcock hadnt done it, there wouldnt have been any technique to take, would there? You appreciate his work? You say his films "arent all that".That's appreciation?

[snafflefilms]

ps.. you need to insert an apostrophe in the words hadnt and wouldnt.. now that's a primary school english lesson for you :)

[snafflefilms]

oh good lord.. I just realised I'm talking to an american here aren't I.... enough said.. please don't respond to me any further.. I have nothing to say to the weak and deadly impressionable yanks... thank you !! your country is lost 'partner' as are your people... you've allowed the jewish controlled media to slowly manipulate you and destroy your morals and ethics, not to mention your nation's mental capacities and standards of education. As an Englishman I'm entitled to diss Hitch haha

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@snafflefilms

You are entitled to shut up as far as i'm concerned, and thats coming from a french, a country that has enough self respect to keep its cinema alive with gov subventions if needed., unlike UK.

You are an idiot like there far too many in cinema business. Snobish pseudo lefwist caviar morons.

So since you're brit, retarded racist, you think you have more rights to "diss" Hitch? . As i said in my previous post to you, moron, your stupidity is endless.

[nokiddingable]

@snafflefilms

I see you like "Gloria". We all do.

And so just you'de know. Hitch was the first to give Cassavetes a chance to direct a movie. It was one of the episode of "alfred hitchcock presents".

In terms of influence he had. A bunch of modern directors admitted having been influenced by him: De Palma, Carpenter. and every single one who has scene for murder to shut, even Tarantino.Such an idiot, mama mia!!!! lol, lol and lol.

[bill3979]

@snafflefilms You're right. You have nothing to say-- of value. Change the subject to American "morals and ethics" after making a fool of yourself in your supposed "specialism", you pretentious fuck. As an Englishman, you're an asshole, plain and simple. Hitchcock chose to live in America didn't he, and did his best and most acclaimed work for American studios. Where would your snobby ass be if America hadn't bailed England out in WWII? Go fuck yourself.

[nokiddingable]

@bill3979

What an idiot.

Instead of beeing proud his country gave birth to a genius in cinema, that braindead finds more cool to bash Hitch. Maybe he thinking "ho, if i bash him, then the ppl will be impressed and will think "oh, that guy he bashes hitch and he does films too, he must be really talented". LMAO.

[nokiddingable]

@snafflefilms

Hey, dumbass, snafflerubbishitn.

Cassavetes was an american, did you know that?

All of you find cool to look down at america and americans, must be hard considering their contribution to movies! LMAO.

Thanks for the fun.

And shut the door on yr way out!

[bill3979]

@snafflefilms And you need to insert an apostrophe in "one's". Bwaahahahaha.

[bill3979]

@snafflefilms "his techniques has been vastly superseded"? Where do you lecture, on a street corner? Try "have been". That's first grade grammar, simple subject verb agreement. You're illiterate.

[snafflefilms]

Take the 's' off techniques.. hey it's friday night after some wines and I type quickly..

I'm most certainly not Illiterate my dear friend. Oh and you should try reading before criticizing ones grammar.. I did not say his films were 'not all that' infact I'm simply implying they're old fashioned by today's standards. It's hardly fair to compare the medium of film in it's infancy to the ancient english literature of Shakespeare.

[bill3979]

@snafflefilms You put the "s" on technique, not me.

Read your own comment. That's exactly what it says, that his films were "not all that".

[mauijim662000]

mankind waited far too long to give hitch the respect he deserved. this "gala" should have happened 10 or 15 years earlier. ditto for his knighthood.

[s291185]

When Truffaut had interviewed Hitchcock and later published the book, it became a handbook and a companion for all Hitchcock movies, other than knowing the man closely. Now Bert Cardullo, who teaches Drama and Film at a Turkish university has a series of interviews he has edited and published as a part of Conversations with a Film maker series, one of which is on Michealangelo Antonioni, which i am told has a rare interview. Visit uread.com and check out the books by Cardullo.

[iaralillylynosjohn]

Wow

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[gouvyrock]

fuck truffe aut!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[orsoyaphoto]

Unbelievable friendship and life long appreciation, mutual respect and cooperation.

All I wonder even more and more as one who has english as a second language, how they managed to communicate in that high level of creativity and movie history changing originality with Truffaut`s practice of english.

Far from judgement or criticism! I think its fascinating, high power mind connection.

Or Hitchcock was fluent in french... :)

God Bless Both!

[nokiddingable]

@orsoyaphoto

Great post.

They communicated with pure intelligence.

Yes 2 fantastic human beeing.

[orsoyaphoto]

Unbelievable friendship and life long appreciation, mutual respect and cooperation.

All I wonder even more and more as one who has english as a second language, how they managed to communicate in that high level of creativity and movie history changing originality with Truffaut`s practice of english.

Far from judgement or criticism! I think its fascinating, high power mind connection.

Or Hitchcock was fluent in french... :)

God Bless Both!

[ElOctopodo]

In his book, Truffaut actually tells that Hitchock looked so bad in this that even the TV tricks couldn't help to make the act less uncomfortable for the viewers. Seems he was right.

[EDMUNDO256]

mr. lacombe!

[nickstoli]

Thank you for posting this gem!

[predlycon]

"you respect him because he shoots scenes of love as scenes of murder... we respect him because he shoots scenes of murder as scenes of love!" CLASSIC!

[tomiguess]

Hitchcock is a weird motherfucker...Truffaut is too cool for school...the fact that he was self taught makes me even more impressed.

[m3talmilitia15]

Why is Hitchcock so rigid in this?

[FilipM1]

@m3talmilitia15 I believe he was quite ill. He died under a year later. Great director! "Rear window" is one of my favorite movies of all time.

[marco27c1]

@m3talmilitia15 This was in 1979. Hitchcock died in 1980. He was probably very ill.

[SinAutor]

Hitchcock looks dead at 1.22!!!

[kruskev]

damn truffaut dissed hitchcock he called him fat. ICE COLD

[GhostSnake]

he look like shit, truffaut i mean

[troglodyto]

yo don't disrespect truffaut. he did more for film than almost anyone else alive

[joliecide]

a legend paying homage to a legend

[iaralillylynosjohn]

@joliecide You said it so well..

[Effisiocin]

Hello...THIS VIDEO IS GREAT !

Which year is this video from ?

Thanks

[andreamalaguti64]

Hitchcock could hardly contain his emotions...

[captainkill1]

@andreamalaguti64 : thats just his manner. the way he was. A brilliant innovator in Cinema. I like Alfred Hitchcock presents the tv series as well.

[NonSequiturL]

Haha, Hitchcock looked so unamused.

[deadforever]

Thanks for this. Sadly Francois would die only 4 years later.

[nuggetstorm]

I hope Hitch is enjoying himself. I can't tell. Love him in any case.

[buri88]

awesome

[filmfanatic1017]

His novels on Hitchcock are amazing.  A must read for any fan of Hitch's.

[patricio00]

His novels? He has a book lenght interview but no novels...