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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Psycho, the Alfred Hitchcock film with the famous death-in-the-shower scene. Also Dementia (1955) by John Parker. Kirkland House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 5/11/1972 | See Source »

Elsewhere, Resnais has made more subtle acknowledgments. Suggesting his debt to the comics, he lists "Fearless Fosdick" in the credits of one film. Alfred Hitchcock, a hero of Resnais's, appears in Marienbad in an almost unnoticeable private joke: "We made a tribute to Hitchcock by putting his photographic silhouette in the hotel in Marienbad, waiting for an elevator which, of course, never comes...

Author: By Phil Patton and Sharon Shurts, S | Title: Alain Resnais: From Marienbad to the Bronx | 4/14/1972 | See Source »

Dial M for Murder, Hitchcock's improvement on Agatha Christie. Quincy House Dining Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 3/16/1972 | See Source »

...Birds, by Alfred Hitchcock, Quincy House dining hall, 8, 10, March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 3/9/1972 | See Source »

Yates and Goldman set a facetious tone throughout most of the film (Redford, admired by Segal for his "nerves of steel," suffers from gastritis). But the jokes do not so much supplement the tension as undercut it. Combining satire and suspense is a treacherous business. Only Hitchcock (as in North by Northwest) has really been able to manage it. His wit, visual sophistication and editorial wizardry are greatly missed in The Hot Rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Schlemiel Quartet | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

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