MetaFilter posts tagged with Hitchcock

"The birds attacked me but Hitch was scarier."

xod — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:16:50 -0800

Tippi Hedren in make-up test stills for The Birds,*

Alfred Hitchcock on The Tomorrow Show

dhammond — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:34:50 -0800

"Long thought to be lost or destroyed, this complete recording of one of the few hour long interviews of Alfred Hitchcock has been found." From the description on the YouTube page:

Originally broadcast as one of the first Tomorrow Shows with Tom Snyder in the Fall of 1973. This recording appears to be from a second repeat of this show broadcast on Memorial day, 1980. The VHS (SP) tape itself was found to be in excellent condition. While properly stored in a climate controlled environment it apparrently had not been played in decades. Great care has been taken to make the digital transfer.

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Birds Minus Birds

vronsky — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:58:18 -0800

Give Us Today Our Daily Terror is an exact copy of Hitchcock’s 1963 film The Birds from which all the birds have been removed. Video: 1-2-3 Stills

And Introducing Seth Rogen as Cary Grant in North by Northwest!

dhammond — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:34:41 -0800

Hitchcock Classics as illustrated in the 2008 Hollywood Portfolio from Vanity Fair.

Hitchcock on Hitchcock

empath — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:48:23 -0800

Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Alfred Hitchcock reflects on his career in movies, discussing among other things, the origin of the term "MacGuffin", his creative process and what his earliest fear was.

The Key to Reserva

breaks the guidelines? — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:48:52 -0800

The Key to Reserva Scorcese films a “lost” Hitchcock script. Yes, it’s an advertisement. But really, this is good. via

Hitchcock Triple Feature

dhammond — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:21:39 -0800

Mother isn't quite herself today.

miss lynnster — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:31:04 -0800

No rm an Ba tes and that oh, so fam ous sho wer sce ne... FULL FILM –– Psy cho (1960) The Bates Motel today (scroll to bottom for best images) Who owns Norman Bates? Ed Gein, the "real" Norman Bates Dr. Philip Skerry (the guy who wrote a 400 page book on a 2 minute movie scene) Aaaah!

Virtuoso Vertiginousness

felix — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:08:45 -0800

Vertigo got you spinning? The answers to your problems and more are available at the Hitchcock DVD Wiki.

M Is For Montage

chlorus — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:51:41 -0800

How to make a film like Hitchcock would have. Also, a sociological perspective on guilt and innocence in Hitchcock's work - rituals of liminality (pdf). (via)

Charlie Parker, gunslinger

growabrain — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:57:11 -0800

Thomas Sutpen is one of Faulkner's most complex and intriguing characters. His blog, If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger, there’d be a whole lot of dead copycats includes nostalgic collections of rare photographs in serial form. Samples: They Were Collaborators (298) Great Con Artists of the 20th Century (14) Vietnam - Dramatis Personae (7) A is for Arbus (37) Collect 'em All (26) The Golden Age of Prurience (37) Poets are both clean and warm (18). Many wonderful others on the sidebar.

They never found her head

Astro Zombie — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:43:23 -0800

Dr. Crippen. He poisoned his wife, buried her in the basement, and then escaped with his female lover disguised as man and son aboard a ship. Then there was Patrick Mahon, who chopped up his mistress and stashed her in a trunk at Waterloo Station, among other places. The connection between these two men? Aside from addressing the problem of how to dispose of a body, they inspired Rear Window.

Hitchock Underground

lilbrudder — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:08:04 -0800

In 1999, to mark the centennial of Alfred Hitchock's birth in the Leytonstone district of London, 17 mosaics were installed in the entrance corridors of Leytonstone tube station. Each mosaic celebrates a different Hitchock masterpiece. True to form, Hitch makes several cameos among the mosaics.

Stills from Alfred Hitchcock's movies

matteo — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:28:36 -0800

Hitchcock Gallery. Stills from Sir Alfred's movies: Hitchcock blondes. Mothers in Hitchcock movies. Dangling and falling. Eyes in Hitchcock movies. Match cuts. 'Tunnel' shots. 'Pieta' shots. How to throw a punch. Also: Hitchcock & Psychoanalysis. (homepage)

Leonard J. South, Hitchcock's Camera Operator

PenguinBukkake — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:10:41 -0800

"Hitch was always trying to push the limits on techniques and to be different".
Cary Grant chased by a crop-duster plane in a corn field; Janet Leigh screaming in the shower; Tippi Hedren attacked by killer seagulls. The man behind lens? Leonard J. South (1914-2006) , Hitchcock's camera operator. More inside.

Michael, I'm On iTunes

eustacescrubb — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 05:38:53 -0800

iTunes Gets NBC Shows. And not just this season's: like a page out of Infinite Jest, iTunes and NBC are serving up classic NBC programs, including Knight Rider and Hitchcock Presents. (note: sorry - first link goes to iTunes Music Store -- no press releases available yet to link to.)

The killer is....

dirtylittlemonkey — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:58:22 -0800

Hitchcock's infamous shower scene from Psycho overlayed with the '98 remake by Gus Van Sant: .mov (via Waxy)

Hitchcockian Horrors

shoppingforsanity — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:38:20 -0800

On this day in 1963 Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" was released into the world, causing us to forever tread lightly around pigeons. Anyone wanna lend me $18,950 so I can celebrate?

Or he became me.

grimley — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:47:17 -0800

TCM is playing tribute this month to Archie Leach, better known to the world as Cary Grant. The range of films, the types of roles, the co-stars. Makes you long for another era of american film-making. Of interest to you architect types might be Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House of 1948, with the fabulous Myrna Loy - whose 1947 film The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer partly occupies that special message place on my answering machine. Grant's films with Hitchcock - especially North by Northwest with its great fake FLW house and fantastic Saul Bass titles - Cukor, and Hawks are well worth searching out. Don't miss his final role - Walk Don't Run - a film set at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and itself a remake of The More the Merrier of 1943. Who said that Hollywood couldn't do remakes?

One of the most interesting items to come out of the TCM documentary is Cary's embracing LSD in the early pre-illegal tests of it.

psychokid

crunchland — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 16:20:36 -0800

Alfred Hitchcock meets Star Wars Kid [note: 7 mb WMV (Windows Media) file]

Vertigo, Then and Now

y10k — Sat, 05 Apr 2003 21:01:21 -0800

Vertigo then and now is a collection of pictures from Vertigo, then and now. [via Scrubbles]