Hitchcock was trained in Germany during the silent period at UFA in the Weimar Republic. It was there that he was greatly influenced by German Expressionism. Fritz Lang was probably his most admired director. read more
“It’s wonderful that Truffaut got Hitchcock to talk because directors of his generation didn’t often,” says Jones, head of the New York film festival, and the director who collaborated on Martin Scorsese’s survey of Italian cinema, My Voyage to Italy. read more