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Hitchcock Year Revisited2 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: As Regular Shadowplayers may know, I spent 2009 watching all of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, one … more →

Tags: film, Alfred Hitchcock, For the Love of Film The Film Preservation Blogathon

The Death of Hitchcock24 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: Get out your handkerchiefs, this could get pretty emotional. I’m not kidding. Filming in Engla … more →

Tags: film, Literature, mythology, Hitchcock, Alma Reville, Bill Krohn, Charlotte Chandler, it's only a movie, Hitchcock at Work

The Pattern is Complete30 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: Here it is — the end of Hitchcock Year, as far as the films go. What an odyssey it has been. F … more →

Tags: film, Music, Literature, Alma Reville, Barbara Harris, Bill Krohn, Bruce Dern, Buddy-buddy, Cathleen Nesbitt

Nearly There...

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: A mini-fumetti to keep you going… … more →

Tags: film, Hitchcock, psycho, Fanily Plot

Soon...6 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: Hitchcock’s final film, later today… … more →

Tags: film, Hitchcock, Family Plot

Time Gentlemen Please23 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: FRENZY represents at least three things – 1) A return from the flaccidity of TORN CURTAIN and … more →

Tags: film, Music, Literature, Hitchcock, Repulsion, Jon Finch, Patrick Hamilton, the wicker man, anthony shaffer

Watch This Space8 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: My FRENZY post will appear later. Once I’ve written it. I am happy to report that I have now v … more →

Tags: film, Hitchcock, Frenzy, Family Plot

"Just carve them up like regular chickens..."17 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: Dialogue from ERASERHEAD, complimentary image from FRENZY. Does this make you feel festive, much? Wh … more →

Tags: film, Literature, Hitchcock, robin wood, eraserhead, Frenzy, Dan O'Bannon, Jennifer Jones

"I'm not going to fail in your bathroom."17 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: As we hear, Hitchcock was already planning THE SHORT NIGHT in 1968 while making TOPAZ. That unmade f … more →

Tags: film, Literature, Music, Politics, Television, Dany Robin, Edith Head, Frederick Stafford, Henry Bumstead

Topaz is Coming11 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: …before the end of the day, I swear! Hitchcock’s most despised film, possibly. We shall … more →

Tags: film, Hitchcock, Topaz

Kaleidoscope23 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: This 1999 BBC documentary in the Reputations series uses stills and extracts from Hitchcock’s … more →

Tags: film, Literature, Hitchcock, Patrick McGilligan, Norman Lloyd, Antonioni, Frenzy, Kaleidoscope / Frenzy, Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light

Alfred Christmas Presents14 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: Before we run out of Hitchcock Year, I just wanted to run through the episodes of Alfred Hitchcock P … more →

Tags: film, alfred hitchcock presents, barbara bel geddes, Bill Mumy, Claude Rains, David Wayne, evan hunter, Fay Wray, Hazel Court

The Spy Who Came Down with a Cold45 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: Nearly done, old boy… My inhalations and exhalations sound like the sand whirling around in a … more →

Tags: film, Music, Literature, theatre, Politics, Science, Albert Whitlock, alfred hitchcock presents, Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light

Minnie Q. Thief31 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: Like THE BIRDS, MARNIE was released by Universal on DVD in the wrong ratio at first. This was the fi … more →

Tags: film, Music, Literature, theatre, Science, Hitchcock, Sean Connery, Martin Gabel, marnie

Preview of Coming Attractions...3 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: What do we think of a guy who keeps a thing like this on his office desk? Mind you, I have a collect … more →

Tags: film, Hitchcock, marnie

Skull Daze25 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: LA PHRENOLOGIE BURLESQUE — that is the name of the nameless Georges Méliès film illustrated in … more →

Tags: film, Comics, Science, Hitchcock, Méliès, The Time Machine, George Pal, A Pictorial History of Horror Movies, The Golem and the Dancing Girl

Without Feathers34 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: Hitchcock slows down markedly after PSYCHO — at first because he spent a long time publicizing … more →

Tags: film, Music, Literature, Science, Hitchcock, frankenstein, Daphne DuMaurier, Rod Taylor, The Mist

The Taking of Pelham16 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: Why had he always been haunted by those underground caverns, by the drip of water in dim light, by t … more →

Tags: film, Hitchcock, Vertigo, alfred hitchcock presents, John Williams, Boileau and Narcejac, D'Entre Les Morts, tom ewell, The Case of Mr Pelham

Bad Business45 comments

dcairns wrote 3 years ago: Drawing by Alfred Hitchcock. PSYCHO of course was very good business, and intended as such. Inspired … more →

Tags: film, Music, Literature, Alfred Hithcock Presents, Anne Heche, Anthony Perkins, Bernard Herrmann, blackmail, David Byrne


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