François Truffaut Salutes Alfred Hitchcock at AFI Life Achievement Award

[@dragoniguana]

One of the greatest directors of all time saluting another. Just magical.

[@paddy9i99]

Amen. Truffaut and Hitchcock together, both masters of their craft.

[@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.

[@philippebeauchamp2827]

Hitchock' seems really pleased about the compliments.... -__-

[@baptistebauer2346]

Philippe Beauchamp I read in the Truffaut's book about hitchcock that he was very sick at this time, furthermore they improve the scene with editing according to Truffaut. The atmosphere was horrible apparently :/ (sorry for my english ^^)

[@lesfilmsapapi]

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

[@andreamalaguti64]

Truffaut complimented Hitchcock more than once, even if this might be the only time he did it in public. The book he mentions is SUPERB; and that shall stay through the years.

[@andreamalaguti64]

Hitchcock could hardly contain his emotions...

[@annalovesfilm]

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

[@joliecide]

a legend paying homage to a legend

[@zack11993]

Alfred Hitchcock was in very ill health at the time and would die months later. Ingrid Bergman commented, "They always give it to them too late."

[@escoltarevista4290]

Good to hear him speaking English

[@cs8499]

Truffaut: praises Hitchcock Hitchcock: 👁️👄👁️

[@jamesdrynan]

Many people's point of reference for Truffaut is his appearance in Spielberg's " Close Encounters... " He was an icon of France, regarded as the founder of French New Wave films. A director, screenwriter, actor, producer and film critic, his interviews with Hitchcock are required reading for cinema lovers.

[@filmfanatic1017]

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

[@gabrielapriori1]

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

[@KrishnaBM9999]

No one elevated hitch more than him

[@010598ad]

yeah he seems SO happy

[@nickstoli]

Thank you for posting this gem!

[@Gallifrey1991]

"zey belong here more zan we". love Truffaut

[@jondstewart]

He spoke better English than he thought and second-guessed himself. He just spoke it with an Inspector Clusseau accent. Same thing with his Close Encounters character Lacombe. He spoke fluent English to a degree, but still wanted an interpreter for long and complex sentences.

[@debarunsarkar3863]

Once in a lifetime experience, two pioneers masters of cinema truffort and alfred Hitchcock complementing each other at a same time.

[@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.

[@flannerymonaghan-morris4825]

He also just looks so bored out of his mind…

[@troglodyto]

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

[@mariebdo2703]

As a French I feel so embarassed about his accent haha ! Jean-Pierre Léaud has the same accent. Well thank you for finding it charming :) I miss François just as I would have lost my dad.

[@mariebdo2703]

***** Hey you found me ! :)

[@dfg1999]

His accent was good. I mean his French accent completes him!

[@tomascruz1353]

His accent is very heavy but, just imagine Truffaut speaking fluent English, it would be so bizarre, he’s so French and I personally love that

[@duckman531]

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

[@christianterraes8334]

Un homme formidable

[@buddyvillaruel]

Good times

[@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.

[@284436]

I really wish they would show the whole vide

[@WheepyMAW]

1:02 Is it a start of smile ?

[@generalcircle]

Gooooooood Evennnnnning...

[@marco27c1]

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

[@wildsmiley]

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

[@girlwhostares]

He seems TRIFLE excited...

[@georgepierson4920]

Alfred Hitchcock looks like he is ready to throw up with excitement.

[@RideMyBMW]

Truffaut: The beginning and end of French cinema...

[@robertpetrie6847]

RideMyTruck I wouldn't say the beginning of french cinema, he is the beginning of the French new wave though

[@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747]

I got into french New Wave after watching The Last Metro soon I wanted to watch all of them as I had fallen in love with french cinema (I'm still to complete the list as several titles are hard to find). But seeing recent french films makes me depressed, they're so bad and exactly what Goddard and Truffaut standed against when they started making films.

[@pititoucheep]

@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 check out Celine Sciamma, Arnaud Despeshin, Olivier Assayas, Ladj ly, Justine Triet, Xavier Legrand, Bruno Dumont

[@TheSFHAA]

It's much funnier with the youtube subtitles switched on

[@CINAMASTER1]

Hilarious

[@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.

[@SIngli6]

@jazz4 Yes. I can imagine him thinking: "What the bloody hell is this Frenchie wuffling on about?!

[@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".

[@Aes85]

After listening to his last sentence I would love to know what Truffaut would have thought about Tarantino and his movies. Sadly, we will never know.

[@snafflefilms]

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

[@sennedt4446]

when was this....?

[@twomindz79]

Bergman or Rossini at the start ? Can never tell ..

[@HovaNirvana]

I’m confident that was Bergman.

[@rogerkincaid931]

Hitch seems very elated.

[@jazz4]

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

[@JohnDoe-tm9wz]

Hitchcock could have played Mr Freeze

[@vampirebrianne]

@TravisBickle, as an Englishman, yoy do a fine job of displaying, intolerance, arrogance, and over inflated ego.

[@sabimegeorges7629]

So, whenever I hear the name of François Truffaut, I can only of one film:"L'homme quit aimait Les femmes" and I want to laugh about Bertrand Maurane

[@patricio00]

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

[@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?

[@umjetnaplavusa100]

google brought me here

[@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...

[@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.

[@mstfvevo]

o7

[@NonSequiturL]

Haha, Hitchcock looked so unamused.

[@diuga1]

@andreamalaguti64 Hahahahh

[@bill3979]

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

[@m3talmilitia15]

Why is Hitchcock so rigid in this?

[@alecton]

Hitchcock is not impressed

[@Commando303X]

Hitchcock looks dead - is he sick...?

[@damianlatimer5753]

Don't say that. And yes he was sick

[@SebColina]

hitchcock looks like droopy dog

[@davidgnt]

Never compare F. Truffaut to the very king Alfred Hitchcock. By the way, and even if I understand that English people can like his accent, believe me it's really irritating for the French people who like english, and a legend would speak a correct english. p.s : I'm french