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  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Spellbound (1945), Part 4

    by Brent Reid 27th December 2024

    Re-recordings There are two full length re-recordings of Rózsa’s Oscar-winning score First one was a guilty favour for missing out on a lucrative opportunity Second most complete to date, even …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Spellbound (1945), Part 3

    by Brent Reid 27th December 2024

    Soundtrack Miklós Rózsa’s Oscar-winning score is one of Hitchcock’s very best But his original recordings have never been issued outside of the film Massive publicity boost due to specially-recorded radio transcription …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Spellbound (1945), Part 2

    by Brent Reid 27th December 2024

    Home video Freudian thriller has had many distinct home video transfers Unfortunately all are flawed in some way and some omit red tinting Some releases mistakenly add misidentified “overture and …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Spellbound (1945)

    by Brent Reid 27th December 2024

    The Master of Suspense probes into the subconscious mind for a cerebral thriller Freudulent: Based on once popular but now largely debunked ideas on psychoanalysis Sigmund’s theories no longer universally …

  • Making of a Masterpiece: Spellbound (1945)

    by Mark Kermode 27th December 2024

    Psychoanalytical thriller sees Alfred Hitchcock delving into the subconscious His second collaboration with David O. Selznick led to clashes and compromise The film’s most ambitious sequence was designed by iconic …

  • Writing on a Classic: Spellbound (1945)

    by Brent Reid 27th December 2024

    Revisiting contemporary and modern critical appreciation Alfred Hitchcock delves into fashionable Freudian psychoanalysis True to form, the director sends a Wrong Man – or is he? – on the run …

  • Exposing Atrocities: Hitchcock and the Camps

    by Brent Reid 22nd December 2024

    Towards end of WWII, UK Ministry of Information commissioned a Holocaust documentary Hitchcock was brought on board as “treatment advisor” and helped shape its aesthetic But rapidly changing political priorities …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Bon Voyage and Aventure Malgache (1944)

    by Brent Reid 18th December 2024

    The Master of Suspense turned his talents towards French wartime propaganda He’d been stung by harsh accusations of abandoning Britain in her hour of need After making his anti-Nazi film …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Lifeboat (1944), Part 4

    by Brent Reid 18th December 2024

    Soundtrack and remakes Realistic: Score is Hitch’s canny exercise in minimalism Back at sea: Film’s star returns for the only radio version Sci-fi: Three quasi-remakes transpose story to outer space …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Lifeboat (1944), Part 3

    by Brent Reid 18th December 2024

    Home video This missing boat must be hunted down as it isn’t in any collections In the same boat: Almost all early DVDs have compromised audio Hitch’s original soundtrack can …

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