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...
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...
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...
James Stewart IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, VERTIGO, REAR WINDOW, THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, HARVEY, THE MAN FROM LARAMIE, THE NAKED SPUR Jimmy Stewart proves his worthiness to be on this list every Christmas....
Alfred Hitchcock was primarily a director of thrillers. His films contained intrigue, espionage, obsession, sexual desire, and, most of all, murder. Sometimes this murder was expected by the audience, other times welcomed. In some films, the murder would come out...