First up on this week’s episode of our podcast, Noah Baumbach and Kent Jones discuss Jones’s new film Hitchcock/Truffaut, which opens in select theaters on December 2. After that, you’ll hear a Q&A from Closing Night of this year’s New Directors/New Films about Rick Alverson’s Entertainment, which opens at the Film Society on November 13. Subscribe to The Close-Up on iTunes and, if you like what you hear, leave us a review!

Hitchcock/Truffaut is a new documentary by Kent Jones (who is also the director of the New York Film Festival) that brings to the screen the eponymous interview book, first published in 1967. Featuring interviews with Martin Scorsese, Olivier Assayas, David Fincher, and more, the film is an insightful study of the book’s profound influence. Following a recent sneak preview, Jones joined Noah Baumbach (Mistress America, Frances Ha) on stage to talk about Hitchcock, film analysis, and filmmaking.

Rick Alverson’s follow-up to The Comedy is a darkly humorous road movie about a failed comedian (Gregg Turkington playing a variation of his own character, Neil Hamburger) on a hallucinatory journey across the Mojave Desert. Entertainment closed out New Directors/New Films earlier this year and, following a screening in the Walter Reade Theater, Alverson joined selection committee member Dennis Lim on stage to discuss it.