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There were also scenes that make Hitchcock movies look harmless. One player refused to go out into the field, making a path to the Mister Softee ice cream truck instead; he has since left the team. In another game, we yielded five runs in the last inning when we had a five-run lead, before losing in extra innings...
Strangers on a Train" and "Rope," two homoerotic Hitchcock thrillers that were featured in the recent documentary The Celluloid Closet. Brattle Theatre, double-features...
...editing table. Try to imagine these scenes in single long takes, and you start to appreciate editing's vital contribution: it gives films the collision of images that creates a collision of emotions. It has been the primary technical touchstone for great directors (Alfred Hitchcock, Alain Resnais, Martin Scorsese) and vibrant movie movements (the Soviet silent cinema). From the brilliantly intercut chase scenes in D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) to the dizzyingly allusive montages in Oliver Stone's JFK and Natural Born Killers, editing is moviemaking...
Nabokov liked to shock as well as enchant. A biology professor who suspects his wife of adultery frightens her to death by putting a skeleton in her bed. There is a boyish cruelty similar to Alfred Hitchcock's in many of Nabokov's mock-gothic tales. He was an ardent hunter of clichas and kitsch, and a mischievous parodist of traditional literary forms. The familiar 1952 story Lance sends up science fiction whose "Star tsars, directors of Galactic Unions, are practically replicas of those peppy, red-haired executives in earthy earth jobs." The little-known 1924 tale The Dragon turns...
...There may not be as many fans as we like," says Mattingly, "but the ones who come have been loud, knowledgeable and supportive." He has a point. At the game on Sept. 20, the crowd cheered louder and louder for starter Sterling Hitchcock as he dazzled the Blue Jays inning after inning. In the upper deck, where a fan could stretch out, enjoy the game and catch a foul ball without much competition, two teenage girls serenaded Yankee batters by mellifluously calling out their names: "Mattingly ... Strawberry...Velarde..." In the Hitchcockian suspense of the ninth inning, the fans were...