Word: hitchcocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nevertheless makes for some nice, subdued thrills. That is exactly the sort of thing that Willard sorely lacks. It is a movie with a good idea-a young man who uses rats to avenge the oppressions of his elders-but it would have needed a combination of Bunuel and Hitchcock to carry it off. Instead it has Daniel Mann (I'll Cry Tomorrow), who manages, despite a good performance by Bruce Davison, to make the movie look like something disinterred from the cellar of TV's Twilight Zone...
...minor controversies that did exist were like that which surrounded the appearance of Hitchcock's Life boat in the spring of '44-unfortunately, many felt, Walter Slezak in the role of a Nazi gunboat captain had been spotlighted too sympathetically...
...area of information handling, allowing physicians to store complete medical records and retrieve them at the touch of a few keys on a typewriterlike office terminal. Now computers are being put to even greater use by physicians seeking to plan treatment programs for their patients. Doctors at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover, N.H., have programmed their Honeywell computer to sort through some 20,000 different radiation-treatment plans and extract the ten most suitable for a particular tumor patient...
...drink well. You were the only one to explain England to us. You were one of the first to show us what Hitler really was. And now that you are an American, America is beginning to appreciate food and drink." Who could this be but Movie Director Alfred Hitchcock, as eulogized by French Cinematheque Chief Henri Langlois at the Great Fisheye's investiture last week as a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur...
Among the "classics" canonized in Confessions of a Cultist are Aldrich's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, Hitchcock's The Birds, Preminger's Advise and Consent. All are auteur genre items; Sarris rarely has the flexibility of such British auteurists as Raymond Durgnat to admit that non-auteurs can produce great films. Each has raw narrative material of questionable significance, and a blatant commercial bent which made the few respectable critics feel rotten and cheated the morning after, unless trash was all they expected...