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Settling the Score: The Music for Frenzy
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 decades, there was...
Strange Sounds in Kino’s Rich and Strange Blu-ray
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 audio on this...
Alfred Hitchcock’s 117th Birthday — #Hitchcock117
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,...
39 Steps Back on Stage
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 doing that...
Hitchcock’s Ghost: James Allardice
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 household word...
An Inconsequential Yarn: Writing Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO
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...