Word: hitchcocks
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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...
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...
Dial M for Murder, Hitchcock's improvement on Agatha Christie. Quincy House Dining Hall...
...Birds, by Alfred Hitchcock, Quincy House dining hall, 8, 10, March...
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...