Word: hitchcocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rear Window. Probably the most difficult thing for me is to choose only one Hitchcock film. So many are fabulous, especially from the 50s (North by Northwest, Vertigo, and Strangers on a Train). But this little shown film with Jimmy Steward and Grace Kelley is my favorite. It combines all of Hitchcock's strengths: suspense, great plotting, complex direction, and an ability to force the audience to discover its dark and immoral sides by involving it with characters engaged in unsavory activities (here, voyeurism). Yet none of his other films go so far in lending a sinister touch to mundane...
...small independent company making up stories in order to take advantage of the locations, or fighting off gunmen sent out by the competition, his picture has a pleasant authenticity. There is also a nicely handled romantic triangle involving O'Neal, Burt Reynolds as a star and Newcomer Jane Hitchcock as a comically nearsighted actress. What goes wrong with the picture is an overreliance on slapstick, the nearly lost silent film technique, as a device to evoke the spirit of the time. Bogdanovich apparently does not quite trust his film's softer side to grab interest, especially...
...everyone knows about the McGuffin-Alfred Hitchcock's pet name for the object (microfilm or rare jewels) that kicks off the action in a suspense film. Less renowned, but just as important, is "the clock." This is movie shorthand for the deadline toward which villains push their mean plans and against which the virtuous struggle mightily. Two-Minute Warning, which concerns a sniper (Warren Miller) in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, has more clocks than a Swiss trade show...
...Today: HITCHCOCK'S Sabotage at 7:45 and Murder at 6 & 9:10; Fri-Sun Notorious at 4:05 and 8:20, Rebecca...
...Hitchcock's Rebecca and Wait Until Dark, Sat at 8 & 10 respectively...