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Hitchcock Update (w/c 29/Oct/2007)

Over at MacGuffin, Ken Mogg’s latest entry in “The Editor’s Week” (27/Oct/2007) discusses “Young and Innocent“. A little bit of trivia from that film — in the mine shaft sequence, Nova Pilbeam later said in interviews that the hand that reaches out for hers didn’t belong to the hero (Derrick De Marney) but to her future husband Penrose Tennyson, who was an uncredited Assistant Director on the film.

Hitchcock Update (w/c 22/Oct/2007)

Over at MacGuffin, Ken Mogg’s latest entry in “The Editor’s Week” (20/Oct/2007) continues his in-depth discussion about “Frenzy“. Just picking up on the theme of “waste”, in his interviews with Truffaut, Hitchcock said: I’d like to try to do an anthology on food, showing its arrival in the city, its distribution, the selling, how it’s fixed up and absorbed. And gradually, the end of the film would show the sewers, and the garbage being dumped… (read more)

Hitchcock Update (w/c 15/Oct/2007)

Over at MacGuffin, Ken Mogg’s latest entry in “The Editor’s Week” (13/Oct/2007) continues his in-depth discussion about “Frenzy“. “Frenzy” is one of my guilty pleasures — whenever I watch it I always enjoy it more than I feel I should. But then again, most of the characters in the film seem to be indulging in guilty pleasures, greed and excess. The food motif has been well discussed, but I’d not picked up on the Rusk/breadstick… (read more)

Hitchcock Update (w/c 08/Oct/2007)

Over at MacGuffin, Ken Mogg’s latest entry in “The Editor’s Week” (06/Oct/2007) is the first part of an in-depth discussion about “Frenzy“. I’m sure many of you have already pre-ordered this, but Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 3 is released on DVD this week in the US (Amazon USA). This week… 8th October French actress Claude Jade (“Topaz“), who died last year, would have been 59 years old today. Actor Nigel Bruce (“Rebecca” and “Suspicion“) died… (read more)

Hitchcock Update (w/c 01/Oct/2007)

Over at MacGuffin, Ken Mogg’s latest entry in “The Editor’s Week” (29/Sep/2007) catches up with some of the observations he’s received from Hitchcock fans around the world. Just to pick up on the children’s song in “The Birds“, in the documentary “All About The Birds“, writer Evan Hunter said: The crows are gathering behind her on the jungle gym and I have the kids sing a song. I asked my kids, what’s a… they were… (read more)

Hitchcock Update (w/c 24/Sep/2007)

Over at MacGuffin, Ken Mogg’s latest entry in “The Editor’s Week” (22/Sep/2007) discusses the film “The Ipcress File”. I remember reading somewhere that Hitchcock was keen to make an anti-James Bond film — one in which the viewer sees the mundane side of espionage (rather than the glamorous and STD risky lifestyles of Messers Connery and Moore). Also, “The Ipcress File” contains many camera shots from weird angles, including one from above a light bulb… (read more)

Hitchcock Update (w/c 17/Sep/2007)

Over at MacGuffin, Ken Mogg’s latest entry in “The Editor’s Week” (15/Sep/2007) continues the discussion about “The Manxman“. A big “thank you” to screwball for creating the Desktop Wallpaper of the Week (click to view different sizes): This week… 18th September Many happy returns to cinematographer Jack Cardiff, 93 years young today! 19th September Many happy returns to actress Rosemary Harris, who celebrates her 80th birthday! Harris appeared in several episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents“,… (read more)

Hitchcock Update (w/c 10/Sep/2007)

I’ve been meaning to start regularly blogging about Hitchcock, so here goes! I’m planning to cover news from the previous week and details of upcoming DVD releases, as well as any birthdays or anniversaries in the coming week. As reported at MacGuffin, the actor Hansjörg Felmy (who played the role of Heinrich Gerhard in “Torn Curtain“) died on 24/Aug/2007. Oddly, the report of his death at Variety states he appeared in “Alfred Hitchcock’s cold war… (read more)