Writing with Hitchcock

It's back! If you missed this show during its last run -- or have been waiting to see it again -- now's your chance. Part-spoof, part-homage, and 100% entertaining! I had the pleasure of hosting ...

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It was forty-seven years ago today that Alfred Hitchcock's ghostwriter, James Allardice, died suddenly of a heart attack. For a little more than a decade, Allardice penned the introductions and c...

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The most anticipated Blu-ray release of the year shipped a few weeks ago—Universal’s Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection. I’ve gone through the individual titles to give an extensive re...

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Mock up of the bogus 3D Blu-ray packaging complete with Rear Window binocular cut-out glasses included. In 1953 while under contract to Warner Bros., Alfred Hitchcock embarked on a screen adaptat...

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I've always had a fondness for Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage, while being fully aware that it is in many ways the darkest of what has long been known as the classic thriller sextette from the direc...

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It's hard to believe that thirteen years have passed since what seemed like a year of centenary celebrations for Alfred Hitchcock in 1999. I hope you will come and join me as I mark Hitchcoc...

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This weekend, New Yorkers have a rare opportunity to see Vertigo the way Alfred Hitchcock intended—in 35mm IB Technicolor, with its original soundtrack. The Museum of the Moving Image in Astori...

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I can't think of a better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than combining two things that I love—Hitchcock and beer—but even more specifically, talking about Hitchcock movies and e...

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On this day in 1904, Archibald Leach was born. He left an indelible mark on cinema and our culture as Cary Grant. He was, in the opinion of so many of his fans, the personification of elegance. S...

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A few tips from the Master of Suspense to guide you through your champagne toast into 2012: Tip #1: When popping the cork, aim away from your guests (or the camera).  Tip #2: Try not to spil...

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A bit of fun with the Twelve Days of Christmas from a Hitchcockian perspective. Thanks to Eboni Cameron, Edri Hill and Tyena Smith for lending their voices and enthusiasm. Merry Christmas!

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John Michael Hayes would have turned 92 this week, so I thought I'd share some excerpts of our conversations for Writing with Hitchcock. Hayes discusses what the collaboration did for he and Hitc...

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Writing with Hitchcock: Mondays with Hitchcock — Fall 2011: If you're in the New York area I hope you will join me this fall for Mondays with Hitchcock . I've put together two programs for West...

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If you're in the New York area I hope you will join me this fall for Mondays with Hitchcock. I've put together two programs for Westchester Community College, six sessions each, where we'll be sc...

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We were discussing the similarity of the technique used in creating these two "trick shots" which reveal simultaneous action from The Man Who Knew Too Much and Vertigo at the WWH Facebook page, a...

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To mark the 58th anniversary of John Michael Hayes beginning work on Rear Window I decided to visit the actual Greenwich Village courtyard that was used as the model for the spectacular set of th...

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Early in his career Hitchcock said that his method of preparing a screenplay with his writers generally stripping the story down to the bare essentials which he would outline on a single page. Th...

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Before deciding to make this a two-part entry and include a few words about screenwriter Joseph Stefano, I had intended this piece to be strictly about Hitchcock's assistant director and associat...

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Recently on our Facebook page we discussed our favorite kisses in Hitchcock's films, and so here we have the Hitchcock Kiss, with a nod to Joel Gunz whose recent posts on hit Alfred Hitchcock Gee...

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Thirty-one years go yesterday, Alfred Hitchcock passed away. I do not think he would be at all surprised to know that the mark he left on cinema and on pop culture continues and shows no signs of...

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I can hear the pitch now … why remake when we can make it a sequel? It’s 2012…and Hank Conway…um, I mean McKenna, now in his mid-60s has arrived in Washington DC to attend the Kennedy Cen...

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It's that time again! We're having another contest. This time your assignment is to put yourself in L.B. Jefferies's shoes, grab your trusty camera, and snap some shots of Hitchcock locations. I'...

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In case you missed last Saturday's BBC 4 broadcast of To Catch a Thief(which will be online until 1/15/2011), here's my brief review. Naturally, as I cover the writing and production of To Catch ...

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A Christmas treat courtesy of hulu.com...the Alfred Hitchcock directed episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Back for Christmas, followed by a little background on Hitchcock's favorite crime. Enj...

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