Word: hitchcocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...needs makes up the story (although we don't learn this until the film ends); by showing how his warped vision limits the success of his life-style, Chabrol has created one of the few truly original and important single characters in recent narrative films (others are Ferguson in Hitchcock's Vertigo, John T. Chance in Hawks' Rio Bravo, Bannion in Lang's The Big Heat...
Hour of the Wolf. Ingmar Bergman's best film in a long time poses some weighty questions and has the sense to treat them violently in stark and terrifying images reminiscent of Hitchcock (Bergman's favorite director). If you are interested in current discussions of artistic impotence, the dementia of Bergman's protagonist (Max von Sydow) becomes the film's focal point. I found myself more involved by his wife (Liv Ullman) who, in loving him, tries to share his madness but cannot ultimately follow...
...initial theatrical engagements, they stuck a plea for gun control arbitrarily before the credits, then decided not to open the film at all. In the depths of his soul, film critic Bogdanovich probably doesn't care. After all, many films by his idols were mishandled by ignorant distributors--Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry and Ford's 7 Women among them; Howard Hawks' Scarface had a social-conscious message tagged on in order to compensate for its violence; and finally, Bogdanovich can hardly complain about being opened at the Center, Boston's only great cheapie theatre, the one which first...
...down on their subjects. In any case, Targets owes nothing to Hawks, despite a televised quotation from The Criminal Code, followed by Bogdanovich's line, "That man sure knows how to tell a story." Hawks never pulled away from action in his life. Targets relies instead on some elementary Hitchcock principles involving point-of-view shots...
...afraid of my father. I feel this constant reproof, this constant comparison. I feel that only when I'm no longer in his shadow, when I'm no longer afraid of him, that only then will I finally be able to do something myself." Alfred Hitchcock gave one of the less-known reasons why he has filmed his thrillers over the years. "I spent three years studying with the Jesuits. They used to terrify me to death with everything, and now I'm getting my own "back by terrifying other people...