Tag: Hitchcock

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

The Lady Vanishes d. Alfred Hitchcock (1938) I’ve been impressed by Hitchcock’ lightness of touch in my stodgy reactions so far. He spoke of serving a slice of cake rather than a slice of life, and if it is cake then I am finding it most light, possibly angelic, but as we know “every angel…

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Hitchcock – Sabotage (1936)

Sabotage directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1936 The second in this season of Hitchcock films I’m seeing. This film is based on the novel The Secret Agent by Jospeh Conrad (somewhat confusingly the film he made right before this one and after last week’s film was called Secret Agent and had nothing to do with Conrad –…

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Hitchcock – The 39 Steps (1935)

directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1935(beware spoilers below) I must have seen this film many times over the years, but was fortunate to see it for the first time on a big screen recently. How that has awoken me to it. I really get it now. I’m thinking of it as a bubbling brook, maybe in…

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