Alfred Hitchcock Ben Hecht consulted Robert Millikan of the California Institute of Technology about the development of a uranium bomb. Selznick complained that the notion was "science fiction", only to be confronted by the news of the detonation of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in August 1945. Hitchcock formed an independent production company, Transatlantic Pictures, with his friend Sidney Bernstein. He made two films with Transatlantic, one of which was his first colour film. With "Rope" (1948), Hitchcock experimented with marshalling suspense in a confined environment, as he had done earlier with "Lifeboat" (1944). The film appears to
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