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Director Alfred Hitchcock during the filming of The Pleasure Garden (1925)

This just in from the British Film Institute:

The Genius of Hitchcock


Be the first to see Hitchcock's silent masterpieces, The Lodger and The Pleasure Garden, restored to their former glory by the BFI National Archive and presented with live performances of new orchestral scores by Nitin Sawhney and Daniel Patrick Cohen.

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World Premiere
The Pleasure Garden (1925/2012 Restoration Version)
Alfred Hitchcock's directorial debut, made when he was 25, follows the love lives of two dancers at a London nightspot.

Score by Daniel Patrick Cohen performed by Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble

Wilton's Music Hall, Grace's Alley, Limehouse, London E1 8JB

Thursday 28 June 2012, 19:30
Fully booked

Friday 29 June 2012, 19:30
Fully booked

Extra tickets have been reserved exclusively for BFI Members and Champions until 2 December 2011. Please call our Box Office on 020 7928 3232 or go to BFI Southbank to book your tickets.

World Premiere
The Lodger (1926/2012 Restoration Version)

A strange lodger may be a serial killer in Alfred Hitchcock's first suspense thriller.

Score by Nitin Sawhney performed by London Symphony Orchestra

Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS

Saturday 21 July 2012, 20:00
Booking available soon

Blackmail

Hitchcock's seminal thriller, Blackmail, is a rich evocation of London life. From its opening sequence with the police tracking down a wanted criminal through scenes on the London Underground, in Whitehall, the Lyon's Tea House at Piccadilly Circus and on to the climactic chase in and atop the British Museum the film is framed by a London we all to readily recognise.

Dates and venues to be announced.

To coincide with the BFI's restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's nine silent films, BFI Southbank is mounting a retrospective of all the extant features he directed. The season, running from August to mid-October, will take in both well-known classics and unfamiliar rarities like Murder (including the German version, Mary), Rich and Strange and his wartime propaganda shorts.

Images from the restored Hitchcock 9