Works of fiction have a way of disassociating from reality and creating their own worlds. There is a distance between real world and make-believe and that is perhaps the entire charm to fiction. Another aspect of fictional works is that they are often created from the point of view of […]
Alfred Hitchcock
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Hollywood loves stories about Hollywood, so the idea of a film about director Alfred Hitchcock’s experience making Psycho seemed like a sure winner: a snapshot rather than a life/career overview. It works and it doesn’t. Hitchcock’s attractions lie in its pastel-colored homage, its peek at the complicated nature of relationships, […]
Okay, I’ll admit it: The Birds never scared me—not even as a child. Still, on the 55th anniversary of the picture’s release, Alfred Hitchcock’s audacious film continues to hold its place as more than a curious experiment. Deemed “culturally, historically and aesthetically significant,” The Birds was added to The National […]
What do you do if you’re a priest, bound by the covenant of the church not to divulge confessions—even to authorities—and someone you know confesses that they’ve just committed a murder? Alfred Hitchcock’s off-the-beaten-path I Confess (1952) illustrates the dilemma engagingly. Based on Paul Anthelme’s French play “Nos deux consciences,” […]
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! Today I’m talking about the black and white masterpiece by Alfred Hitchcock. If you don’t know who Hitchcock is then you’re missing out on some of the greatest films ever made. The sheer volume of his output is amazing. Some of his work includes such classics […]
PSYCHO (1960, Dir: Alfred Hitchcock) When the “Master of Suspense” set out to make this movie it was to be a modest, low budget thriller shot by the crew of his popular TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents. As with almost all of his projects, it soon became something much more […]
There have been several important director/composer collaborations throughout cinema history and one of its most well established and unique was Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. For Psycho (1960), coined the “godfather of slasher films” by cineasts, Herrmann created a rapidly paced, macabre masterpiece of bright shrieking strings and brass cues […]