Shadow Of A Doubt master class with Guillermo Del Toro | Film | Recap | The A.V. Club Toronto
Shadow Of A Doubt master class with Guillermo Del Toro | Film | Recap | The A.V. Club Toronto:
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In his mammoth, 15-hour documentary on the history of the medium, The Story Of Film: An Odyssey, Mark Cousins calls Alfred Hitchcock “the premier image-maker of the 20th century.” More than Picasso, even! It’s, of course, a bold statement, but it’s substantiated by Hitchcock’s canon of memorable images—Detective Arbogast tumbling down the stairs inPsycho, the stitches of Fry’s jacket giving way as he hangs on for dear life on the edge of the Statue Of Liberty in Saboteur, Scottie casting his voyeuristic gaze across a lavish upholstered dining room in Vertigo, and so on.
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In his mammoth, 15-hour documentary on the history of the medium, The Story Of Film: An Odyssey, Mark Cousins calls Alfred Hitchcock “the premier image-maker of the 20th century.” More than Picasso, even! It’s, of course, a bold statement, but it’s substantiated by Hitchcock’s canon of memorable images—Detective Arbogast tumbling down the stairs inPsycho, the stitches of Fry’s jacket giving way as he hangs on for dear life on the edge of the Statue Of Liberty in Saboteur, Scottie casting his voyeuristic gaze across a lavish upholstered dining room in Vertigo, and so on.
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