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2018 ***1/2 It's 1986 for some reason, and a team of paranormal investigators are making a big name for themselves all over Scotland. ...
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I’m sure none of you except for JPX knows that I’m a bit of a germ-a-phobic. It’s annoying, but manageable. Though, since I met JPX and list...
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Early Hitchcock (his "British period") was awesome.
Hitchcock was like John Woo and Paul Verhoven, in that he was a foreign director working on very small budgets who got the attention of Hollywood because his stuff was so amazing-looking, so they brought him over (like with Woo or Verhoven) to see what he could do with real Hollywood resources. The immediate result was Rebecca (A David O. Selznick extravaganza -- Selznick had just made Gone With The Wind and was basically the Joel Silver of the late 30s) with Olivier and Joan Fontaine; Olivier got an Oscar. Then Hitch had nowhere to go but up and he became basically the proto-Spielberg, making perfectly-crafted smash-hit popcorn movies with the biggest stars of each decade that were beloved by critics and picked apart in academia.
But go back before all of that to the Brit movies and you get absolute gems like The Thirty-Nine Steps and The Lady Vanishes which show you his early pictorial and narrative genius in its raw, black-and-white form.
(I'm a big Hitchcock fan in case this wasn't clear. But who isn't?)
Also check this After Effects Rear Window assembly; pretty mind-blowing.
http://vimeo.com/37120554
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