Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Sabotage originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. Early Hitchcock films are a great deal of fun to watch, not only did he cut his teeth in...
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) (rewatch; seen countless times, but it’s been awhile since I last sat down with it) What do you say for the movie that has everything? I came up in the last generation that had this...
Title: Sabotage Year: 1936 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder Synopsis: An undercover Scotland Yard detective investigates a potential terrorist syndicate who plan to stage a series of attacks throughout London but the plot...
In this episode, West returns to the composer / director collaborations of Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock with their 1960 classic, Psycho. Music in this episode includes: “Prelude” “The City” “Marion And Sam” “Temptation” “The Madhouse” “The Murder” “Finale” “End...
Every Monday, we’ll recommend a movie–it could be a classic, an overlooked recent treasure, an unfairly maligned personal favorite or whatever the hell we feel like–and we’ll tell you where to find it online. Number 17, an early sound film...
The Lodger, a 1927 silent thriller available now from the Criterion Collection, is only Alfred Hitchcock’s third feature film, yet so much of what we associate with him is already there. A sequence in which a character rifles through the potential...
In this episode, West returns to the composer/filmmaker collaborations of Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock and plays music from their 1959 film North By Northwest. Plus, an update from the Musical Notation Action Newsdesk! Music in this episode includes: “The...
I decided to undertake a movie challenge in 2017. This seemed like a good way to see some classic movies that I have unfortunately never seen. The Battleship Pretension Top 100 list provided such a challenge. I had only seen Vertigo...
I decided to undertake a movie challenge in 2017. This seemed like a good way to see some classic movies that I have unfortunately never seen. The Battleship Pretension Top 100 list provided such a challenge. Psycho feels infamous at this...
In this episode, West returns to the composer/director collaboration of Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock to play music from their 1958 film Vertigo. Music in this episode includes: “Prelude And Rooftop” “Carlotta’s Portrait” “Farewell / The Tower” “The Nightmare” “Scene...