Alfred Hitchcock Geek

CALLING ALL SEEKERS, PONDERERS AND EVOLVERS! Hitch at home with one of his three works by Paul Klee. Something’s changed in the air (or is it the water?). 2020 has been a time of both reck...

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IT FEELS LIKE THE BIGGEST JUMP CUT EVER:  On December 1, 2009, I dropped a thin line into the ocean of social media, hoping to connect with a film nerd or two. That was the birth of Alfred Hitc...

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FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT AND ALFRED HITCHCOCK IN THEIR FAMED INTERVIEW, WITH INTERPRETER HELEN SCOTT. PHOTO BY PHILIPPE HALSMAN. Alfred Hitchcock spoke reverently of the emotional power of montage...

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WHY IS IT ALWAYS GUTENBERG, GUTENBERG, GUTENBERG?  THE WORLD'S FIRST MOVIE, BY EADWARD MUYBRIDGE .   A few years ago, The Atlantic Monthly assembled a panel of historians to compile a ...

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Anatomy of the Gaze, yours truly, 2019 Scratch beneath the nitrate gloss of any given Alfred Hitchcock movie, and you’ll find it’s flabbergastingly erudite. So much so that if you’re goi...

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As mentioned in Part One of this Freak the Geek miniseries , I think there’s a scene that Justin Lin lifted directly from Hitchcock while making The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. (No harm...

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Car chases? Pshhhh, Hitch did it first, and usually did it better. Watch the video and see why. What could any movie that’s all about hot cars, teen angst and burning rubber have to do with ...

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HITCHGEEK ACADEMY: A PORTRAIT OF THE DIRECTOR AS A YOUNG MAN, PART 2 Young Hitchcock's view, as it were, of a German Zeppelin dropping bombs over London, June, 1915. > "A writer—and, I...

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In 1975, Alfred Hitchcock was the third-biggest investor in Universal Studios, making him a wealthy man—and a towering presence among its creative leadership. Meanwhile, there was a much y...

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Go to the podcast. "Alfred Hitchcock very much lived an artist’s life, and the boundaries between his daily life and art were very much blurred. He ate, drank and slept filmmaking. That'...

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Young Steven Spielberg When you sign up to become a Patron, you'll get the chance to break my brain. It's called "Freak the Geek" and here's how it works: you feed me the name of a Hollywood...

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Twickenham Studios, where Alma Reville's father worked as a costume maker.  If you think you know Hitchcock by his famous profile shot and jokey TV show monologues, you’d be quite wrong. ...

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Screen shot from this week's video. In many important (and obvious) ways, Alfred Hitchcock died on April 29, 1980. However, since then, he’s taken on a whole new life. With four full-lengt...

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Back in April, I gave a talk on Hitch and The 39 Steps at the beautiful Beaverton Public Library, which was presenting the play based on that film. It was the continuation of a habit I'd star...

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Dear fellow Hitchcock Geek, Since 2004, I've been publicly blogging, publishing, teaching, speaking and generally geeking out on Alfred Hitchcock. And I love it. But there's one aspect of the ...

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Aside from an introductory prologue, Hitchcock forewent his usual cameo appearance in The Wrong Man, though he did manage to sneak into some of the movie's posters and lobby cards. (This was f...

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EACH OF THESE IMAGES CORRESPONDS TO A FIGURE CITED IN MY CHAPTER IN CRITICAL INSIGHTS: ALFRED HITCHCOCK , EDITED BY DOUG CUNNINGHAM. TO GET THE FULL STORY, BUY THE BOOK! Figure 1. Hitch, p...

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From the 80s movie riffs in Stranger Things to the 90s sitcom metacomedy of Bojack Horseman, current television is mainlining a sophisticated form of nostalgia. These shows aren't just playing dr...

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“Klee could have made good storyboards, you know.” That's what Alfred Hitchcock once told his friend and biographer, Charlotte Chandler. Perhaps he felt that way because Klee, like him, was m...

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MURAL FROM THE TEMPLE OF LONGING, PAUL KLEE, 1922 (CLICK TO ENLARGE.) I CONFESS (1953), OPENING SEQUENCE. (CLICK TO ENLARGE.) This is Part 2 in a series. The beginning is a very goo...

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TWITTERING MACHINE, PAUL KLEE, 1922.  TURN THE HANDLE SLOWLY AND YOU MIGHT HEAR ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS’ SHOW THEME FUNERAL MARCH OF THE MARIONETTES . CRANK IT FAST AND YOU’LL HEAR...

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Alfred Hitchcock loved to make movies and he loved to eat—not necessarily in that order. Just about every one of his films features food as a supporting actor. In Blackmail, Suspicion, Shad...

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I recently sat down with myself in my living room in Northwest Portland to talk about Alfred Hitchcock’s life and films, and how he’s come to be viewed by history. I'd mixed a cavernous ...

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INDIANA GOVERNOR MIKE PENCE INDIANAPOLIS—Police in Indianapolis, Indiana have stepped up efforts to ward off a series of bird attacks in the vicinity of its state capitol buildings. In wh...

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THE CITYSCAPE FOR FRITZ LANG'S METROPOLIS, UNDER CONSTRUCTION. (CLICK TO ENLARGE.) Before Alfred Hitchcock was a director, he was a set designer in Britain’s silent film industry. While ...

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