Psycho and Birds “Legacy Series” DVDs
A quick update — the two US DVD sets of “Psycho” and “The Birds” that were due for release in September are now slated for a release next year.
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)
More remakes and movie news
Just catching up with more movie news… The Lodger (IMDB) David Ondaatje (IMDB) is directing a contemporary version of the Marie Belloc Lowndes novel (available to download at Project Gutenberg). Number 13 (IMDB) Not a remake of Hitchcock’s unfinished film, but a film in which “the director gets caught up in a Hitchcockian dilemma when he ends up in a love triangle with two crew members while making the film — when the lead actor… (read more)
Birds remake
The rumours have been circulating for what feels like a couple of years now that Michael “Pearl Harbor” Bay was wanting to produce a remake of “The Birds“, along with actress Naomi Watts. I’m sure I also read that Bay was intending to go back to the original short story by Daphne du Maurier for the remake, even though none of the characters in the story even remotely resemble Melanie Daniels. Du Maurier’s story instead… (read more)
Blackmail free tomorrow in Trafalgar Square, London
Just stumbled across this on the BFI website… …so, if you’re in London tomorrow evening, it might be worth catching this free screening of Hitchcock’s early masterpiece “Blackmail“!
31 Days of Hitchcock
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a couple of weeks now… Joe Valdez has set himself the task of watching and reviewing a different Hitchcock film every day in October. You can catch up with his reviews at thisdistractedglobe.com. Joe’s not used a category for his Hitchcock-a-blog-o-thon, but you find all of the posts by doing a search for “Hitchcock” on his blog.
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)
Poll results: Favourite Hitchcock actress
The results from the first mini poll are in… …and the winner was Hitchcock’s own favourite blonde, Grace Kelly… Don’t forget to vote in the current poll (“Hitchcock baddies”)!
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)