Word: hitchcocked
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...Ardant, Truffaut remarked that he had been "seduced by her looks." One can see why, although she is striking in a way more reminiscent of a Helmut Newton heroine than a Hitchcock one--if only she had been given the chance to do more than look good...
...Christine, who has the body of a '58 Plymouth Fury but the mind of a Victorian murderess. At birth, on the Chrysler assembly line, she mysteriously killed a mechanic who dared to drop cigar ash on her upholstery. (Alfred Hitchcock once tried, unsuccessfully, to work a scene like this into a movie; now the trick has been solved.) Two decades later, Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon), nerd of high school nerds, owns Christine-and is possessed by her. In a trice this four-eyed Faust is transformed into a cool dude with clear skin, wrap-around shades, slick black hair...
Another artist of atrocity, Brian De Palma, took notes from the Hollywood siren too. Much of his cinematic vocabulary comes straight from the old masters: the razor-slick strategies of a Hitchcock murder sequence, the sass and spitfire of a Howard Hawks comedy, the swooping voyeurism of a Vincente Minnelli crane shot. Here De Palma applies his film-school expertise to Oliver Stone's script to fashion a big, bloody, entertaining tragicomedy that functions both as tabloid journalism (The Rise and Fall of a Drug King) and as cautionary fable. Tony Montana may be exterminated by the hired guns...
...life with half a loaf, is a constant that puts the narrator's more transitory emotions in humorous perspective. Among them is a case of heebie-jeebies brought on by a side trip to Ireland. In a set piece that could be mistaken for a parody of Hitchcock, Kate makes her way in a balky rental car to a coastal castle...
...PSFU DO HITCHCOCK thriller, romantic melodrama, and Gethic tale combined into one. Robin Davis new movie I Married A Shadow defies definition. On one hand, the movie is a refreshing thriller that portrays characters as more than mere props to be clanged, banged, and shuffled through "the story." There are times, however when the different emotional undercurrents flooding the film work at cross-purposes...