Tag Archives: Alfred Hitchcock

“Yeah, and I’m buddies with Alfred.” — Eminem on Alfred Hitchcock

Posted on August 13, 2025 by sheila

For Alfred Hitchcock’s birthday. “It got silent, then all these voices said ‘Come follow me into the gates of Hell.’ I heard ’em yell ‘Welcome to the Norman Bates Motel!’ I ring the bell for service and I was greeted … Continue reading →

Posted in Directors, Movies, Music, On This Day | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Eminem, England, Psycho | 1 Comment

April 2024 Viewing Diary

Posted on May 1, 2024 by sheila

To Be or Not to Be (1942; d. Ernst Lubitsch) It’s 82 years later. 82 years. And it’s still a little bit shocking this film even exists. The film lampoons Nazis, and Hitler, and tyranny, which – in 1942 – … Continue reading →

Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Claude Chabrol, comedy, crime movies, documentary, film noir, France, Ginger Rogers, historical drama, Indigo Girls, Jimmy Stewart, Joel McCrea, John Garfield, Johnny Depp, Michael Curtiz, Patricia Highsmith, Patricia Neal, Pre-Code, Radu Jude, Romania, romantic comedy, women directors | Leave a comment

The phone dominates: Marnie and After Hours

Posted on July 13, 2023 by sheila

Here’s the shot in Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie which I reference in my Criterion essay on Martin Scorsese’s After Hours. There’s also a moment where Paul (Griffin Dunne) is running down the street holding a crumpled note in his hand. Scorsese … Continue reading →

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February 2023 Viewing Diary

Posted on March 6, 2023 by sheila

Reboot (2022) Allison and I watched it together when I was in New York for the first half of this month. I adore this series and am so bummed it wasn’t picked up for Season 2. We had a blast … Continue reading →

Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Aline MacMahon, Aubrey Plaza, Australia, Barbara Stanwyck, biopic, Boris Karloff, Brad Pitt, Busby Berkeley, Charlotte Bronte, comedy, Douglas Sirk, drama, Emily Bronte, England, film noir, France, Fred MacMurray, Ginger Rogers, Gold Diggers of 1933, Greta Garbo, Hugh Grant, Hungary, Ireland, Joan Blondell, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Kay Francis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Loretta Young, Madonna, Mervyn LeRoy, musicals, Pre-Code, Quentin Tarantino, reviews, William Powell, William Wellman, women directors | 18 Comments

2022 Books Read

Posted on January 6, 2023 by sheila

Some re-reads this year, but a lot of new-to-me authors as well. New novels written by faves. Been a year of upheaval and transitions. I’ve managed to keep up my regular reading schedule. I just don’t feel right if I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged A.S. Byatt, Alfred Hitchcock, Anne Fadiman, art, Australia, Biography, books read, Canada, Christopher Hitchens, Edmund Burke, Elinor Lipman, England, entertainment biography, essays, Eve Babitz, friends, Germany, Greece, Hitler, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Joseph Cornell, Lorrie Moore, Machiavelli, Master and Margarita, Memoirs, Michael Curtiz, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mitford sisters, nonfiction, Paul Zindel, politics, Quentin Tarantino, Robert De Niro, Russia, Ryszard Kapuściński, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, The Beatles, Tom Wolfe, true crime, Victor Klemperer, Victor Serge, war, William Hazlitt, William Wordsworth, WWII, YA fiction | 10 Comments

Happy Birthday, Alfred Hitchcock

Posted on August 13, 2022 by sheila

PETER BOGDANOVICH: But you never watch your films with an audience – don’t you miss hearing them scream? ALFRED HITCHCOCK: No. I can hear them when I’m making the picture. Hitchcock and Cary Grant

Posted in Directors, Movies, On This Day | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, England, Peter Bogdanovich | 6 Comments

January 2022 Viewing Diary

Posted on February 14, 2022 by sheila

Crossfire (1947; d. Edward Dmytryk) Went on a little Robert Mitchum kick, thanks to the Criterion Channel. Crossfire came out the same year as Gentleman’s Agreement, and both films deal with anti-Semitism, which was very much on American minds at … Continue reading →

Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, art, Asghar Farhadi, Barbara Stanwyck, Cary Grant, documentary, drama, Elvis Presley, film noir, Gloria Grahame, historical drama, Iranian film, Ireland, Isabelle Huppert, Jane Austen, Jean Arthur, Jean Harlow, Joachim Trier, Joan Fontaine, Johnny Flynn, literary adaptation, Mary Astor, Mildred Dunnock, musicals, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, romantic drama, Steven Spielberg, Sweden, thrillers, William Powell, women directors | 14 Comments

July 2021 Viewing Diary

Posted on August 3, 2021 by sheila

Sally, Mary and Irene (1925; d. Edmund Goulding) For some reason, I forgot to include this gem in my June viewing diary. Considered lost forever, it is one of Joan Crawford’s earliest films – and one where she is actually … Continue reading →

Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Billy Wilder, Bong Joon-Ho, comedy, dance movies, documentary, drama, France, Fred MacMurray, Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Jack Lemmon, Japan, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Blondell, Joan Crawford, Juliette Binoche, Marilyn Monroe, Mervyn LeRoy, Miriam Hopkins, Pre-Code, Shirley MacLaine, silent films, thrillers | 16 Comments

April 2021 Viewing Diary

Posted on May 2, 2021 by sheila

Jewel Robbery (1932; d. William Dieterle) This glittering pre-Code, starring William Powell as a jewel thief, and Kay Francis as a married woman in love with her jewels, is such a subversive delight. Powell is devastatingly charming and Francis is … Continue reading →

Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, comedy, Costa-Gavras, David Lynch, documentary, drama, England, France, Greece, historical drama, horror, Jack Nicholson, Joanna Hogg, Joel McCrea, Kay Francis, literary adaptation, Martin Scorsese, Memphis, Monte Hellman, Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, Pre-Code, Roman Polanski, Russia, sci-fi, short films, Stalag 17, Tilda Swinton, Ukraine, Warren Oates, westerns, William Holden, William Powell, women directors | 15 Comments

Gleaming Baubles In Sewer Grates: Three Scenes

Posted on January 7, 2021 by sheila

1. Strangers on a Train (1951; d. Alfred Hitchcock) 2. The X-Files, “Arcadia”, directed by Michael Watkins 3. Supernatural, “Tall Tales”, directed by John Shiban

Posted in Movies, Television | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Strangers On a Train, Supernatural, X-Files | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Alfred Hitchcock

“Yeah, and I’m buddies with Alfred.” — Eminem on Alfred Hitchcock

April 2024 Viewing Diary

The phone dominates: Marnie and After Hours

February 2023 Viewing Diary

2022 Books Read

Happy Birthday, Alfred Hitchcock

January 2022 Viewing Diary

July 2021 Viewing Diary

April 2021 Viewing Diary

Gleaming Baubles In Sewer Grates: Three Scenes

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