My Name is Alfred Hitchcock – Review
“I’m only going to lie to you once,” says, er, Alfred Hitchcock as he narrates his way through Mark Cousins’ documentary. It’s perfectly expected that a director who loved to toy with his audiences’ ...
Category Archives: Alfred Hitchcock
Six Of The Best: True Crime Films
There are five words that can really make a difference to your film viewing experience: Based on a true story. If we, as viewers, that what we’re getting is even just a little snippet of reality, it ...
Six of the Best: Hitchcock Villains
Alfred Hitchcock famously once said, “Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.” Nicknamed The Master of Suspense, he certainly endeavoured to provide the cinema going public with as much ...
78/52 – Trailer
In 78 setups and 52 cuts, the deliriously choreographed two-minute shower sequence in Psycho ripped apart cinema’s definition of horror. With a shocking combination of exploitation and high art...
New Releases for August
August is a bit of a mixed bag in terms of releases. The majority of the summer hopefuls are now behind us and its only the stragglers left. What this means is that some smaller films and a few selec...
The Hidden Cuts in Hitchcock’s Rope
The Hitchcock film Rope has been hailed as a classic of film making for over half a century now. At the time of release it was marketed as if it was a stage play. The gimmick was that it was shot as...
The Girl
As an accompaniment to our recent review of Hitchcock it is worthwhile looking at the other Hitchcock biography of very recent times. Broadcast on the BBC on Boxing Day 2012, the girl is in a way a f...