Always watching – Jorge Luengo Ruiz celebrates the voyeurism of Alfred Hitchcock as evidenced by scenes from The 39 Steps (1935), Young and Innocent (1937), The Lady Vanishes (1938), Rebecca (1940), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Notorious (1946), Strangers on a Train (1951), Rear Window (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Trouble with Harry (1955), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), Marnie (1964), Topaz (1969), Frenzy (1972) and Family Plot (1976).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FthEJGR61c8
‘Movie overanalysers’ The Film Theorists explore the deft editing of camera tilts, whip pans, push-ins, blurred and dark screens (inspired by Hitchcock’s Rope [1948]) that made Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman seem like one long continous shot.
Which it wasn’t, obviously.
When they met it was moider.
Liam Geraghty, Of Lyric fm’s Culture File, writes:
Thought some of your readers might be interested in the rarely heard story of when Alfred Hitchcock came to Sean O’Casey’s place for dinner. Culture File has the story here. Artist Philip Barrett also did a comix version of our story (above). To win the original artwork just follow @CultureFilePod and RT this tweet.
Culture File broadcasts weekdays on RTÉ Lyric fm 6.40pm
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9mMm2Z3SL0
Nifty editing at the UK movie blog, Ultraculture results in this synching together of 36 death scenes from Alfred Hitchcock movies – all timed to climax at once.
Deaths occur from 2.05. Good evening.
