As Regular Shadowplayers may know, I spent 2009 watching all of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, one a week — plus all the TV shows he personally directed for good measure. But for the benefit of… more →
shadowplaywrote 1 year ago: As Regular Shadowplayers may know, I spent 2009 watching all of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, one … more →
wrote 3 years ago: Get out your handkerchiefs, this could get pretty emotional. I’m not kidding. Filming in Engla … more →
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 →
wrote 3 years ago: A mini-fumetti to keep you going… … more →
wrote 3 years ago: Hitchcock’s final film, later today… … more →
wrote 3 years ago: FRENZY represents at least three things – 1) A return from the flaccidity of TORN CURTAIN and … more →
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 →
wrote 3 years ago: Dialogue from ERASERHEAD, complimentary image from FRENZY. Does this make you feel festive, much? Wh … more →
wrote 3 years ago: As we hear, Hitchcock was already planning THE SHORT NIGHT in 1968 while making TOPAZ. That unmade f … more →
wrote 3 years ago: …before the end of the day, I swear! Hitchcock’s most despised film, possibly. We shall … more →
wrote 3 years ago: This 1999 BBC documentary in the Reputations series uses stills and extracts from Hitchcock’s … more →
wrote 3 years ago: Before we run out of Hitchcock Year, I just wanted to run through the episodes of Alfred Hitchcock P … more →
wrote 3 years ago: Nearly done, old boy… My inhalations and exhalations sound like the sand whirling around in a … more →
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 →
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 →
wrote 3 years ago: LA PHRENOLOGIE BURLESQUE — that is the name of the nameless Georges Méliès film illustrated in … more →
wrote 3 years ago: Hitchcock slows down markedly after PSYCHO — at first because he spent a long time publicizing … more →
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 →
wrote 3 years ago: Drawing by Alfred Hitchcock. PSYCHO of course was very good business, and intended as such. Inspired … more →