The trouble with Alfie: Can we ever truly know Hitchcock? | Movies | Arts | National Post
The trouble with Alfie: Can we ever truly know Hitchcock? | Movies | Arts | National Post:
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Looking at all the renewed interest in Alfred Hitchcock — a 3D re-master of Dial M for Murder, a massive Blu-ray box set, a forthcoming feature film starring Anthony Hopkins and HBO’s own TV movie about the director’s relationship with leading lady Tippi Hedren, The Girl, airing this weekend — it’s easy to say that the Master of Suspense is back. But that’s a bit disingenuous. Alfred Hitchcock never left.
From the article:
Looking at all the renewed interest in Alfred Hitchcock — a 3D re-master of Dial M for Murder, a massive Blu-ray box set, a forthcoming feature film starring Anthony Hopkins and HBO’s own TV movie about the director’s relationship with leading lady Tippi Hedren, The Girl, airing this weekend — it’s easy to say that the Master of Suspense is back. But that’s a bit disingenuous. Alfred Hitchcock never left.
While Hitchcock’s films have been exhaustively dissected, the subject of countless books, scholarly symposiums and Simpsons parodies, the director’s own personality remains largely elusive. Even his major biographies, Donald Spoto’s The Dark Side of Genius and Patrick Milligan’s Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light, cast him as a mysterious figure, lurking in the shadows of his own life. The recent curiosity in the man himself presents an opportunity to penetrate the dark fog of indecipherability shrouding Hitchcock.
Hitchcock hid in plain sight.
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