... Whoa. Thanks. ... It's a vast subject that one can only chip away at. ... I believe Bill has read a few college papers I wrote on Lubitsch - I recently...
In Bill Krohn's wonderful Hitchcock book, it's made pretty clear that Hitchcock shot alternate versions of many scenes, refuting the notion that Hitch...
Thanks, and it's a big subject. I actually have the shooting ratio on Rear Window written down at home - I'll try to find it. It certainly was not as...
There are directors who do that = just shoot what they'll need. Re: Sleeping on the set. a) Making a big-budget movie IS boring - which is why he kept ...
On the other hand, a friend at paramount says that when he'd drop by the Star Trek: The Movie set, Robert Wise was frequently out cold. Catching some "z'"s....
... That was one soporific movie, too. I'm always envious when I hear about directors napping on set. I'm so amped up during production that I don't even...
... Thanks...I love this image, because it strengthens the idea that the "window" in "REAR WINDOW" is into the unconscious...that amazing shot of Stewart...
The opening is a good example of Hitchcock improvising: He shot two panoramics - one of which was supposed to be for the credits (all the shades still closed),...
... for ... publicists who ... family,' ... critic ... The TV quote whores don't bother me -- they are what they are -- as much as such Paulettes as Village...
... Thanks...Hitch's explanation of the Kuleshov effect and its relation to REAR WINDOW always seemed a bit off. For one thing, as you point out, the reaction...
... I think Bogdanovich and Lumet are the two most prominent contemporary directors I know if in this category. (Though Bogdanovich, so far as I know, ...
In his article on Thai films in last Nov/Dec's Film Comment, Bangkok-based Chuck Stephens wrote: "...as radically as the backward-scrolling credits at the...
... Yes. The point is that they connect with the view of the highway rushing toward you in the image. Maybe they just show the whole film backward in Thailand....
... I didn't read far into volume 2--up to about 1965 in the history--is volume 1 as hated? I know Rohmer disputed it, but I though de Baecque had some pretty...
hotlove ... I agree with both of you, but I think Fred's example was subtractive (take away the formal elements of greatness but leave great acting, and you...
By the way, Stephens' name is IN the closing crawl of that film. ... Bangkok-based Chuck Stephens wrote: "...as radically as the backward-scrolling credits at...
... week ... Dan, are you saying that the general culture level lost interest in film outside a Reagan-era commodity, or also that in academia the new crap...
... Since I just re-watched it a few nights ago, I might say "Marnie" approaches "Vertigo" in that department (his cherished unmade project "Mary Rose," ...
By the way, does this film ever turn up theatrically? I assume it played during the Hitchcock centennial, but outside that? I was hoping it was going to turn...
... The former: I don't know that lit-crit thinking had that big an effect on the culture at large. The mood of the 80s seemed different in general from the...
... From where I sat, there was a profound cultural shift in the U.S. around the time of Reagan's election in November of 1980. I'm not saying Reagan was the...
It was produced by AH and his partner Sidney Bernstein and distributed by Warners. (A tiny bit was actually shot here on the Warners ranch). It didn't do at...
It was produced by AH and his partner Sidney Bernstein and distributed by Warners. (A tiny bit was actually shot here on the Warners ranch). It didn't do at...
... From Bob Harris (who did the recent restoration of REAR WINDOW...and who has the Paramount production records), the shooting ratio was approximately 11 to...
Subject: NYTimes: When Movies Are a Way of Life When Movies Are a Way of Life New York Times May 16, 2003 By STEPHEN HOLDEN Anyone who ever binged and saw...
... You know, I find this story of Roberta and her ticket more mystifying with each repetition. In the first place, I've never seen "ushers" at MoMA, male or...
The new still on Jaime's site from "Two Lane Blacktop" prompts me to ask: what's the auteurist consensus on Monte Hellman these days? Even with championing...
