by Steven DeRosa | Mar 9, 2023 | Blog Post
The Long-Awaited Release of Henry Mancini’s Unused Score I was excited when I learned that Quartet Records was releasing the complete original recordings for both Ron Goodwin’s and Henry Mancini’s scores for Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy. For...
by Steven DeRosa | Feb 4, 2022 | Blog Post
A Major Audio Problem with Kino’s Blu-ray of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rich and Strange In terms of picture quality, Rich and Strange has never looked better on home-video than it does on the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release. Sadly, the same cannot be said for the...
by Steven DeRosa | Aug 14, 2016 | Blog Post
Just as an off the cuff, here are my one hundred and seventeen reasons to celebrate Alfred Hitchcock on this day: his countless contributions toward creating the language of film. the MacGuffin (that plot device which has little significance to the audience,...
by Steven DeRosa | Apr 10, 2015 | Blog Post
ack! 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 the last Talk Back during the last New York run, and hope to be...
by Steven DeRosa | Feb 16, 2013 | Blog Post
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 closings that helped transform the British filmmaker into a...
by Steven DeRosa | Feb 1, 2013 | Blog Post
Since Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo is a film that garners such personal reactions, I wanted to begin this piece on something of a personal note. It’s not a matter of whether one likes the film or doesn’t. For those who truly connect with Vertigo, it’s because it...
