Showing posts with label Hitchcock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hitchcock. Show all posts
Friday, 8 December 2017

RIP, continued.

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Anthony Harvey (1930-2917), aged 87.   Harvey directed one of our perennial favourites THE LION IN WINTER in 1968, I remember seeing it...
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Friday, 23 June 2017

People we like: Janet Leigh

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When I was doing those " People We Like " profiles here a few years ago (see label), one I somehow omitted was Janet Leigh - on...
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Monday, 3 April 2017

Hitchcock blondes driving to ......

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Here's Janet and Tippi driving towards their respective fates ..... the sense of doom created by Herrmann's great score builds as...
Friday, 10 March 2017

Stills of the day

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Irene Dunne and Cary in THE AWFUL TRUTH , 1937 - I just love them, they also did MY FAVOURTE WIFE and PENNY SERENADE , as per Cary & ...
Sunday, 18 September 2016

Hitchcock/Truffaut

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That recent documentary (by Kent Jones) on Francois Truffaut's 1962 interview with Alfred Hitchcock turns out to be a real treat. I h...
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Tuesday, 15 March 2016

Vertigo poster

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Here' an oddity - a poster for VERTIGO which I had not seen before ... was this an original from 1958? Was it ever used?
Monday, 14 March 2016

Eva Marie Saint

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Eva Marie Saint is perfect as the sleek, ice cool blonde Eve Kendall in Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST in 1959 - I like her pois...
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Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Still Notorious after all these years ...

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NOTORIOUS , Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 classic, does not look or feel like it is 70 years old. This is surely the high-point of Hitch...
Thursday, 31 December 2015

Midge's place ...

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Looking at VERTIGO once again on Blu-ray is  a revelation - like those other Hitchs on Blu, its the music that grabs one - those great sc...
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Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Class of '54 ....

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Audrey in Paris: SABRINA A quick look at those 1954 gals all going places ... Marlon (in DESIREE Napoleon costume) meets Marilyn (...
Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Rebecca at 75

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No, not REBECCA and those Forties dramas!  Fascinating too to see REBECCA again, this lush Forties romantic drama/mystery, typically Hi...
Monday, 1 June 2015

The annual Psycho re-watch, Rear Window too

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PSYCHO continues to be fiendishly re-warchable, in fact one should rewatch it every year, I catch it whenever it is on and get mesmerised ...