Sight and Sound (1997) - H: Hitchcock

Details

• article: H: Hitchcock
• author(s): David Thomson
• journal: Sight and Sound (01/Jan/1997)
• issue: volume 7, issue 1, page 26
• journal ISSN: 0037-4806
• publisher: British Film Institute
• keywords: Film criticism, Films, Motion picture criticism, Motion picture directors & producers, Motion pictures, Alfred Hitchcock

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Abstract

Thomson highlights Alfred Hitchcock's films. Hitchcock depends on a vertical scale from being inches above Barbara Bel Geddes' hooded, hurt eyes in Vertigo, to the sudden sky shot of Cary Grant anting out of the UN building to flee murder, in North by Northwest. He liked to be a starched-faced humorist, the fat boy striving to mask a naughty grin, a solemn devotee of dirty jokes, double entendres and that icy discord in things that is not s much amusing as disquieting and revelatory.