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LEVERETT HOUSE--Hitchcock's The Birds, Friday and Saturday, February...
There are celebrities--besides Finley, there's Ted Kennedy '54, George Plimpton '48, B.F. Skinner, Walter Jackson Bate '39, Leonard Bernstein '39, Derek Bok, Daniel Steiner '54, Burris Young '55, Alan Heimert, and Alfred Hitchcock (who is rear-projected--he's not really there). And the locations--inside the Library of Congress, the Fogg Museum, Grand Central Station, Harvard courtyards, Quebec City, the Plaza Hotel in New York, the New England Aquarium...
...Allen Poe's elegaic prose poem Ligeia. Since then he's made a number of films, including a feature called Negatives when he was a freshman here. But it's strange. He's no cinema pedant--far from it, and he doesn't major in Visual Studies. He likes Hitchcock, Mike Nichols, Woody Allen, Blow-up, nothing fancy. Nothing experimental or avant-garde for him. He makes full-length feature films on commercial subjects and with big-name stars. One purpose of Counterpoint was to supplement applications to the film schools at USC and UCLA, the two major feeders...
Counterpoint does demonstrate an active editing imagination in a number of short scenes. Several times Brown skillfully imitates Hitchcock's murder-in-the-shower sequence from Psycho, and there's an interesting scene at the headphones in Hilles Library. But they do this at Carpenter Center all the time...
SCIENCE CENTER B, Hitchcock's North by Northwest...