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National Post (23/Jul/1999) - Alfred Hitchcock's home movies promise to be a scream

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Alfred Hitchcock's home movies promise to be a scream

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is holding a celebration of what would be Alfred Hitchcock's 100th birthday on Aug. 13. The event in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater includes screenings of Hitchcock's home movies, unusual trailers (including the so-called "policy" trailer for Psycho), screen tests, costumes tests and documentary footage of Hitchcock shooting Frenzy (1972). Most of the items, donated to the Academy Film Archive by the Hitchcock estate, have never before been screened for the public. The program, From the Hitchcock Collection, will be hosted by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich and will feature an appearance by Janet Leigh, who received an Oscar nomination for her work in Psycho (1960). The opening of an exhibition of additional items from the late director's estate, including production designs, architectural plans and sketches (several in Hitchcock's own hand), annotated scripts, letters, telegrams, production and casting memos, designs for posters and advertising campaigns, scrapbooks, photographs and costume sketches, will also open Aug. 13. The event continues until Oct. 31. On Aug. 20., a restored print of Rebecca, which won best picture and cinematography Oscars in 1940, will be screened in the Goldwyn Theater. Rebecca received 11 Academy Award nominations, including nods for lead actors Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine, supporting actress Judith Anderson and screenwriters Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison. Rebecca marked Hitchcock's U.S. directorial debut. Hitchcock is also being remembered by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Television & Radio, American Cinematheque, Universal Studios, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the British Film Institute in London.

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