There’s something wonderfully surreal and slightly unsettling about many of the Czech and Polish Hitchcock film posters. (The Birds) (Psycho) (Rear Window) (The Birds & Psycho) (Frenzy) (The Birds) (Rebecca) (Vertigo) (Family Plot) (Hitchcock film festival) To my mind, they seem to generate the same uneasy feeling that Tom Adams’ artwork for his series of Agatha Christie book covers do. As a child, these book covers used to give me the heebie-jeebies!
For anyone who’s interested, I’ve just set up an “On This Day in Hitchcoch History” RSS feed: //the.hitchcock.zone/rss/onthisday.xml The feed should give you a list of individual events for the current day. If you’re not seeing the correct day, then you can include an UTC offset to the end of the URL. Just add a comma followed by the number of hours offset you want to add/remove from UTC/GMT – e.g.: //the.hitchcock.zone/rss/onthisday.xml,-9 //the.hitchcock.zone/rss/onthisday.xml,+12
Reading the advert, I’m not 100% sure if the seller is claiming this is the actual car used in the film or not, but the Marreyt Classics web site has a LHD Aston Martin DB 2/4 Convertible up for sale… Whether or not it was used in the film, it would be the ideal car for a quick weekend jaunt up to Bodega Bay… The fully retractable hood would come in handy should the local… (read more)
Tony Macklin, former editor of the “Film Heritage” magazine, has just posted a 1976 audio recording of an interview he had with Hitchcock… The Hitch interview was one of two in which I was a bit intimidated. (The other, of course, was Sam Peckinpah.) A critic friend of mine had interviewed Hitch and said the master had led him to a freezer, and he had thought for an instant that Hitch was going to lock… (read more)
Just when I thought I’d seen every Hitchcock publicity photo ever, I stumbled across this one. Taken to promote “The Birds“, it shows Hitchcock and Suzanne Pleshette… The rear caption reads: “School days are re-enacted by director Alfred Hitchcock with Suzanne Pleshette playing her screen role of a pretty school-teacher.”
