Rope (film) Rope (film) Rope is a 1948 American psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton. The film was adapted by Hume Cronyn with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents. The film was produced by Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions. Starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger, this is the first of Hitchcock's Technicolor films, and is notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as a single continuous shot through the use of long takes.
Hitchcock/Truffaut (film) 3.5 stars out of 4, saying, "My only problem with "Hitchcock/Truffaut" is that it's too short at 80 minutes." Peter Debruge of "Variety" called it "Accessible yet intelligent". Todd McCarthy of "The Hollywood Reporter" stated that "this documentary will be a top draw wherever films about filmmakers are welcome." At the 38th Denver Film Festival, it won the Maysles Brothers Award for Best Documentary Film. Hitchcock/Truffaut (film) Hitchcock/Truffaut is a 2015 French-American documentary film directed by Kent Jones about François Truffaut's book on Alfred Hitchcock, "Hitchcock/Truffaut", and its impact on cinema. Truffaut interviewed Hitchcock over eight days in 1962 at