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― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link
speaking of Shadow of a Doubt (as we were on Rear Window thread) -- LOVE that "zombie waitress" in the dive who looks at the ring:
http://truespies.org/mirror-stage/2007/08/12/alfred-hitchcock-presents-the-night-of-the-living-dead/
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
you are making me want to see shadow of a doubt again.
i want to watch it with morbs and alex in SF!
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
well, get the Castro to book it, ummm, next summer.
Also, gr8 opening shot of the Pulaski Skyway.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not sure which of these is best -- Hirsch & McAvoy on the train ain't bad -- but someone needs to be punished for casting ScarJo as Grace Kelly:
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/02/07/vanity-fair-hollywood-issue-2008/
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 8 February 2008 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw 'em earlier. I only really like Strangers and Seth Rogen doing North by Northwest.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 8 February 2008 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
they should remake it. jason segal in the james mason role.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 8 February 2008 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd love McAvoy's fingers around my...neck.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 8 February 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I still don't think much of V compared to RW and NxNW, but I don't think I'd recognized just how good Kim Novak is - she carries the thing.
― gabbneb, Friday, 8 February 2008 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Seth Rogan replacing Cary Grant in NxNW would be an improvement. Renee Zellweger looks surprisingly right in Vertigo. And the casting of that Lifeboat pic is sorta epic.
― Eric H., Friday, 8 February 2008 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Seth Rogan replacing Cary Grant in NxNW would be an improvement
why must you continuously disappoint me?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 8 February 2008 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
OK, what kind of baiting is that statement? It's the best (intentional) joke in the spread.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 8 February 2008 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
NxNW = Hitchcock's least interesting classic movie, so you could cast Renee Zellweger in Cary Grant's part and I'd call it an improvement.
― Eric H., Friday, 8 February 2008 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^ Bottomless pit of Rong.
Wd rather see Rogen/Segel do Rope, tho.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 8 February 2008 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
NxNW: TOO SCREWBALL :p
(Eric, we love you, but you braek heart. Hitchcock got the wrong-man-chase movie right, at last, w/ NxNW.)
Using Eva Marie Saint is a nice touch, but I hope the forog didn't have to use the Tallulah on-set "hairdressing" joke.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 8 February 2008 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
fotog
(if you don't know the joke, Hitch was told by crew that Bankhead wasn't wearing underwear)
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 8 February 2008 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
What's the best of his earliest work? My daughter bought a 4-DVD set of his earliest films (for $5!) -- I think it has about 17 or 18 features on it and a couple of "AH Presents" episodes.
― Rock Hardy, Friday, 8 February 2008 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Bottomless pit of Rong is slagging on Vertigo. Why does no one call that out?
― Eric H., Friday, 8 February 2008 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
The best of Hitchcock in public domain in the U.S. (which is what that set's no doubt filled with) is probably The Lady Vanishes (gasp! a screwball!) and maybe The 39 Steps, though I liked Sabotage too.
― Eric H., Friday, 8 February 2008 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
How early? 20s/30s? I like Sabotage an inordinate amount but it's probly the 1st Man Who Knew Too Much or The 39 Steps.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 8 February 2008 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Rear Window does the light and breezy but still totally suspenseful thing WAY better than NxNW. C'mon people!
― Eric H., Friday, 8 February 2008 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I've got that 5-movie box with Juno and Rich and Strange on it to watch over the weekend.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 8 February 2008 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I would agree RW is greater, but cmon, they're significantly different stylewise!
Eric defines screwball broader than retro box sets define "noir."
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 8 February 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
This is the collection.
(7.0) Blackmail (UK-1929) - Anny Ondra/Charles Paton/Cyril Ritchard (6.2) Champagne (silent-UK-1928) - Betty Balfour/Gordon Harker/Jean Bradin (5.8) Easy Virtue (silent-UK-1928) - Isabel Jeans/Franklin Dyall/Ian Hunter (6.3) The Farmer's Wife (silent-UK-1928) - Jameson Thomas/Lillian Hall-Davis/Gordon Harker (6.2) Jamaica Inn (UK-1939) - Charles Laughton/Maureen O'Hara/Robert Newton (4.7) Juno and the Paycock (UK-1930) - Barry Fitzgerald/Maire O'Neill/Edward Chapman (8.1) The Lady Vanishes (UK-1938) - Margaret Lockwood/Michael Redgrave/Paul Lukas/Dame May Whitty (6.9) The Man Who Knew Too Much (UK-1934) - Leslie Banks/Edna Best/Peter Lorre (6.3) The Manxman (silent-UK-1928)- Carl Brisson/Malcolm Keen/Anny Ondra (5.9) Number Seventeen (UK-1932) - Leon M. Lion/Anne Grey/John Stuart (6.1) Rich and Strange (UK-1931) - Henry Kendall/Joan Barry/Percy Marmot (6.2) The Ring (silent-UK-1927) - Carl Brisson/Lillian Hall-Davis/Ian Hunter (7.2) Sabotage (UK-1936) - Sylvia Sidney/Oskar Homolka/Desmond Tester (6.7) Secret Agent (UK-1936) - John Gielgud/Peter Lorre/Madeleine Carroll/Robert Young/Lilli Palmer (5.7) The Skin Game (UK-1931) - C.V. France/Helen Haye/Edmund Gwenn (8.0) The 39 Steps (UK-1935) - Robert Donat/Madeleine Carroll/Peggy Ashcroft (7.1) Young and Innocent (UK-1937) - Nova Pilbeam/Derrick De Marney/Percy Marmot
ALSO-- ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: (#13) The Cheney Vase (S.1, 12/25/55) - Carolyn Jones Darren McGavin/George Macready/Ruta Lee (#268) The Sorcerer's Apprentice (S.7, ???) - Diana Dors/Brandon De Wilde/Larry Kert
BONUS: 55 minutes of Hitchcock movie trailers
― Rock Hardy, Friday, 8 February 2008 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
YES
in the uk we have one box that has all the BIP films, and another coming out next week with all the gainsborough ones (ie pre-BIP) and gaumont films (ie post-BIP) plus the ones he did after gaumont.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 8 February 2008 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I hate a lot of movies, so I have to.
― Eric H., Friday, 8 February 2008 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
is NXNW supposed to be "suspenseful"? I see it as a long romantic comedy (with some dead spots).
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 8 February 2008 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Is NxNW supposed to be "romantic"?!
― Eric H., Friday, 8 February 2008 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
or "funny"?!
It's a romp, guys.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 8 February 2008 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Cary Grant drunk = height of comedy in 1959
Martin Landau as gay man = height of comedy in 1959.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 8 February 2008 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
If Hitch says so, I'll buy it.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 8 February 2008 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
xp: yes and yes and it is. (I'd love to sit thru The Awful Truth / NxNW in a theater with Eric and he could explain why everyone was delusionally laughing for four hours.)
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 8 February 2008 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Martin Landau was supposed to be gay in NbyNW??? What did I miss???
― Mr. Que, Friday, 8 February 2008 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link