Spellbound Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Starring Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, and Michael Chekhov USA, 111 min – 1945. Famous (among other things) for being one of the first Hollywood films to deal with psychoanalysis, Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound is the perfect blend of classic Hollywood romantic-murder-drama and Freud’s theories. The film is not so utterly in …
Rebecca Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Written by Robert E. Sherwood 1940, USA Another crucial film in the villain’s gallery (believe it or not there is a method to my madness) that haunts Hitchcock’s career is Rebecca, his first American film since his emigration in 1939, just as Europe was plunged into inferno and genocide. Based …
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Notorious Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Written by Ben Hecht Starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains Of the fourteen films that Hitchcock directed in the forties the critical consensus tends to focus on Shadow Of A Doubt, Hitchcock’s personal favourite of his fifty-three pictures, and Notorious, the romantic spy caper which features the alluring pairing of Ingrid Bergman …
With the notion of film canonization once again at issue, we thought it might be an appropriate occasion to check in on our staff’s collective opinion of the greatest films of all time. We had no idea what to expect; our contributors come from all over the world and come from vastly different backgrounds and …
The Tumblr round-up is a compilation of images, links, posters, stories, videos and so on, taken from the Sound On Sight Tumblr account. We simply do not have the man power nor time to write articles on every interesting movie related goody we find, so this is our way of still promoting some of the …
Young & Innocent Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Starring Derrick De Marney, Nova Pilbeam, George Curzon It is a matter of uncertain serendipity that my first film of the BFI’s Hitchcock season happened to be Young & Innocent, reputedly Hitch’s favourite of his British pictures, now widely considered as the first cohesion of style and substance that displays many of …
The Paradine Case Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Starring Gregory Peck, Alida Valli, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton The legendary producer David Selznick was a key figure in Alfred Hitchcock’s career. In an era when the producer was king he was one of the greats, the MGM enlisted executive of Gone With The Wind in 1939 after a period …
Saboteur Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Starring Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Norman Lloyd Hitchcock at war began in earnest with this 1942 thriller, a film rushed like many into production by the proudly patriotic studios, horrified at the sneak attack of Pearl Harbour in December 1941, Saboteur was released a remarkably swift five months later – that’s the efficiency of …
How do you measure the value of art? Influence, innovation, inspiration… Every ten years since 1952, the London based magazine Sight & Sound has compiled the lists of the best critics and filmmakers in order to compile the ten best “greatest” films of all time. The 2012 edition marks the first time since 1962 that …
Every month the Sound On Sight staff bands together to tackle a specific filmmaker, event and/or some sort of movie related theme. This month our focus shifts towards the “Master of Suspense”, Alfred Hitchcock. Rebecca Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood U.S.A., 1940 The inspiration to write about Rebecca and how …
Every month the Sound On Sight staff bands together to tackle a specific filmmaker, event and/or some sort of movie related theme. This month our focus shifts towards the “Master of Suspense”, Alfred Hitchcock. The Trouble With Alfred ’I don’t exactly hate women…’ Once you know those words came from the mouth of Alfred Hitchcock, …
Every month the Sound On Sight staff bands together to tackle a specific filmmaker, event and/or some sort of movie related theme. This month our focus shifts towards the “Master of Suspense”, Alfred Hitchcock. The Birds 1963, Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Screenplay by Evan Hunter, adapted by a novel by Daphne du Maurier. Upon seeing …
Every month the Sound On Sight staff bands together to tackle a specific filmmaker, event and/or some sort of movie related theme. This month our focus shifts towards the “Master of Suspense”, Alfred Hitchcock. **** Much has been written about the male gaze in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece, Vertigo. Laura Mulvey’s seminal essay “Visual Pleasures …
At the time of it’s release in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho was not warmly received by film critics, perhaps because it was too daring for the time. The consensus nowadays is that Psycho is a classic and cinematic art, and admired by just about every cinephile around the world. One of the film’s most essential …
More than any other filmmaker, Alfred Hitchcock is the quintessential 20th century movie director. He began his career in the days of silent pictures and continued all the way until 1976, with Family Plot. During his long career, he directed over 40 features and once said that any movie director could surprise his audience by …
The “Master o Suspense”, Alfred Hitchcock will finally get a bio-pic, courtesy of Sacha Gervasi, the director of Anvil! The Story of Anvil. According to 24 Frames, Gervasi is currently in negotiations with Ivan Reitman’s Montecito Pictures to write and direct a film based on Stephen Rebello’s 1990 book titled Alfred Hitchcock and the Making …
The Ring (1927, b/w) Director: Alfred Hitchcock When digital technology fails you, sometimes it’s good to fall back on the virtues of a 35mm print, a new piano score, and one of London’s finest cinemas. I watched Hitchcock’s The Ring, at the Barbican, after two recent screenings of new releases on poor quality DVDs. It …
It is horror season again, my favorite time of year, which means my dear friend Justine and I reprise our rivalry and do our best to out-watch each other, for no other prize other than bragging rights for the year. Really, it is an excuse for two horror fanatics to cram their brains with as …
There have been enough books and articles on Alfred Hitchcock and his work to fill a library wing. Doubtless little can be said here about one of the most examined careers in movies which hasn’t already been said several times over elsewhere. Still – and sadly, to those of us of a certain age — …
Hitchcock writing is always a challenge to read through the first time. But doing a decent job in remaking the writing into a movie? That is a challenge. The movie is being remade and the recent news is that director, Dennis Iliades who recently remade Last house on the Left is taking it over. Initially …
Undertones: Volume 1 Bring up Alfred Hitchock’s Vertigo (1958) in conversation to anyone who has seen it and you are bound to get one of two responses; complete and utter contempt over its baffling complexity or hyperbolic gushing over the film’s genius. Whatever your opinion of Vertigo, the film does have a lot of talking …
The Third Man is a testament to the power of moving images. Often enough in the minds of the public, the writing or the acting of a film are considered the only true artistic aspects, while the cinematography is pushed aside as merely a technical detail, only the paint and brush needed to create the …