Notorious
A model of restraint compared to his more action-orientated thrillers, NOTORIOUS finds Alfred Hitchcock in a subdued, quasi-romantic mood, writes Gavin Midgley.
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North by Northwest
Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite plot, the innocent man on the run, is given the most expansive treatment in NORTH BY NORTHWEST. It is THE 39 STEPS on steroids; it is Hitchcock trying to out-Hitchcock himself, writes Gavin Midgley.
Rebecca
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” Although it was his first American endeavour, Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s gothic novel REBECCA displays all the masterful touches of his earlier British classics.
The Pleasure Garden
Mismatched lovers, girls who look a bit similar, canny canines, dodgy flats in Brixton … Hitchcock’s THE PLEASURE GARDEN provides plenty of visual cues to what was to come, writes David Perilli.
Hitchcock: Capture and Suppression
Hitchcock was a relentless explorer of human limitations – those of his characters, as well as those of his audience. Emma Wilkinson looks at themes of entrapment and suppression in his greatest films.
Psycho
Against a backdrop of generally stale modern horror releases you’ll find Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO fresher, wittier and more unsettling than ever at this year’s Cambridge Film Festival, writes Patrick Fowler.
The 39 Steps
Screening in Sawston on day 1 of CFF: Robert Donat stars as “wrong man” Hannay in this, the most popular of all adaptations of Buchan’s novel, which found favour with the author himself despite its many liberties.
For the Grand Illusion's next trick: THE LADY VANISHES
Called Hitchcock’s first Hitchcock, classic suspense screens in 35mm at the Grand Illusion when THE LADY VANISHES.
The Trouble With Harry
Harry’s a corpse, and everyone who stumbles across him seems to have an alternate explanation for his death. Alfred Hitchcock’s black comedy screens at the Grand Illusion in 35mm.