31 days of October. 31 articles devoted to the screen’s maestro of suspense and the macabre, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980). I’ll be jumping back and forth through five decades in this series. More than half of the films I’ve never seen before, but even the ones I have seen were viewed, researched and written about this [...]
Entries from October 2007
Psycho (1960)
October 31st, 2007 · 6 Comments
Tags: Based on novel · Femme fatale · Heist · Interrogation · Mother/son relationship · Murder mystery · Psycho killer · Psychoanalysis · Road trip · Small town · Woman in jeopardy
The Birds (1963)
October 30th, 2007 · 9 Comments
31 days of October. 31 articles devoted to the screen’s maestro of suspense and the macabre, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980). I’ll be jumping back and forth through five decades in this series. More than half of the films I’ve never seen before, but even the ones I have seen were viewed, researched and written about this [...]
Tags: Ambiguous ending · Based on short story · Beasts and monsters · End of the world · Road trip · Small town
North By Northwest (1959)
October 29th, 2007 · 6 Comments
31 days of October. 31 articles devoted to the screen’s maestro of suspense and the macabre, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980). I’ll be jumping back and forth through five decades in this series. More than half of the films I’ve never seen before, but even the ones I have seen were viewed, researched and written about this [...]
Tags: Drunk scene · Femme fatale · Hitman · Interrogation · Mother/son relationship · Paranoia · Road trip · Train
Family Plot (1976)
October 28th, 2007 · 5 Comments
31 days of October. 31 articles devoted to the screen’s maestro of suspense and the macabre, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980). I’ll be jumping back and forth through five decades in this series. More than half of the films I’ve never seen before, but even the ones I have seen were viewed, researched and written about this [...]
Tags: Based on novel · Black comedy · Dreams and visions · Woman in jeopardy
