‘Hitchcock/Truffaut’ series at BAMPFA

Kent Jones’ excellent 2015 documentary “Hitchcock/Truffaut” skillfully recounts the impact of the classic film book that stemmed from a series of interviews between Alfred Hitchcock and French filmmaker Francois Truffaut, an admirer.

The film is serving as the jumping-off point for a series highlighting both masters at the Berkeley Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).

There will be 11 more films screened over the next six weeks, many of which are discussed extensively in “Hitchcock/Truffaut,” including Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” (July 24, Aug. 25) and, happily, “The Wrong Man” (Aug. 12), sort of the forgotten child of Hitch’s 1950s run of great films, starring Henry Fonda as a man arrested for a crime he did not commit.

On the Truffaut side, it’s terrific to see my second-favorite film of all time, the 1960 noir “Shoot the Piano Player,” listed on July 29 (Orson Welles’ “The Lady From Shanghai” is No. 1, if you must know), and also his tribute to Hitchcock, 1968’s “The Bride Wore Black” (July 31, with score by Hitchcock mainstay Bernard Herrmann).

Truffaut introduced Hitchcock as the latter was awarded the American Film Institute’s lifetime achievement award shortly before Hitch’s death at age 80; sadly, Truffaut died of cancer just four years later at 52.

[...] black and white is where Kubrick made his reputation, first as a still photographer for Look and Life magazines, among other publications, and then as a gritty filmmaker in the 1950s and ’60s known for stark images in films such as “The Killers” (filmed at the now-defunct Bay Meadows racetrack in San Mateo), and, of course, “Dr. Strangelove.”

The Yerba Buena Arts’ six-feature-film series (plus shorts) begins at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 15, with the masterpiece about World War I, “Paths of Glory.”