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     Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
For that alone.... http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/hitchcock-revealed-by-fox-searchlight/ | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.35.236.200 |
Wow! I haven't watched a Hitch film in ages. Well, apart from Psycho, which sort of doesn't count in a funny kind of way, seeing it's always on somewhere. It's like wallpaper. I want to see the ones I really liked more - Strangers on a Train, Shadow of a Doubt. Less simple, streamlined films with more going on in them. | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 62.255.207.128 |
Uncanny likeness and yet still Hopkins. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.29.244 |
Lord, I think a tremendous amount is going on in Psycho. Check out that analysis in Movie of a single scene! | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.208.112.204 |
I'm looking forward to this film. It sounds very interesting. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
I read recently that they have a Hitchcock season going on at the BFI in London shortly. Might be worth a visit, for Hitch fans in that neck of the woods. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.18.174.156 |
Alfred Hitchcock is engaged in an eternal struggle with Ingmar Bergman for Top Spot in my directorial affections while Billy Wilder looks on in wry amusement from his third place stronghold. 'Psycho' is in my Top 10 horror movies, Tony, and deserves to be in everyone's. There isn't a single wasted frame or less than perfectly constructed scene in the whole movie and it rewards endless rewatchings like no other slasher movie, not even 'Halloween'. Its status may be ubiquitous but it is entirely deserved. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.109.19 |
I rewatched Halloween recently and thought it was OK. Its tricks are gimmicky, however. Psycho is rich and edgy, and I can rewatch regularly. Its set-pieces are exquisitely crafted. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.29.144 |
The Hitchcock season at the NFT includes restorations of some films not seen for many years: http://www.bfi.org.uk/hitchcock/introduction.html | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.118.76.202 |
I wonder how Hopkins developed that Hitchcock chin. Usually an actor's sagging chin is lifted by cleverly hidden stretches of sellotape (a turtle neck sweater will come in handy), but here they clearly went for the opposite effect. I guess they CGI'd it.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.35.236.200 |
Ramsey - I wasn't talking about anything as interesting as depth, but the more mundane 'moving about/scenery/characters' sort of thing. Also I've not seen as many of his others as much as I have Psycho so they have more interest for me at this moment. That'll be a rubber chin, Hube. Funny, but my top ten doesn't exist any more - my interest in films is fluid, changes with my mood so much it feels almost futile to grab at any film in particular. I have to say 'the' top ten, not 'my', because I can recognise greatness without holding it to my chest so much. If that makes sense. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Hitchcock's three best films by far remain... well, Lady Gaga, tic 'em off for us! http://youtu.be/qrO4YZeyl0I ([2:22]"I want your PSYCHO, your VERTIGO stick Want you in my REAR WINDOW, baby, you're sick....") | ||
| Pete_a (Pete_a) Username: Pete_a Registered: 07-2011 Posted From: 108.231.165.81 |
"I wonder how Hopkins developed that Hitchcock chin ... I guess they CGI'd it" Far from, Hubert. Good old-fashioned prosthetic make-up, courtesy of my old mate Greg Nicotero. Coincidentally, I bumped into Greg just yesterday as we were both coming out of Bob's Big Boy (aka best burger in Burbank), and he told me the reason they released the "official" picture of the make-up so (relatively) early was the fear that in these days of cell-phone snaps'n'paps, some enterprising extra was certain to leak it anyway. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
I greatly miss Bob's Big Boy, Pete... there's only a few left now, and I've not been to the Burbank one yet, but it's good to know there's at least one left not too far away! (That's the original, right?) Memories of road trips with the grandparents, stopping at the once-ubiquitious Bob's. Always eating the signature Bob's Big Boy Sandwich (w/fries & salad & their distinctive 1000 Island Dressing - Jesus, I can taste it!) in that same back room they all had, that always had that same weird, gigantic portrait: a Mexican rancher flanked by (?) his two children... what's the story behind that, I still wonder?... | ||
| Pete_a (Pete_a) Username: Pete_a Registered: 07-2011 Posted From: 108.231.165.81 |
I think the Burbank one wasn't actually the first of the chain, Craig, but it is the oldest one still standing (built in 1948). It's very much worth a visit if you're in reasonable driving distance because it's a classic of streamline-revival diner architecture. It's also the place where David Lynch wrote the pilot of TWIN PEAKS! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
So he wrote the pilot for TWIN PEAKS in an old Bob's Big Boy... ha! Well, damn. You know, of course he did....  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.109.19 |
We have a Subway in Whitby. I once spotted Timothy Spall passing it. |