Film Comment (2012) - Hitchcock Olympiad
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- magazine article: Hitchcock Olympiad
- author(s): Richard Combs
- journal: Film Comment (01/Nov/2012)
- issue: volume 48, issue 6, page 30
- journal ISSN: 0015-119X
- publisher: Film Society of Lincoln Center
- keywords: "39 Steps to the Genius of Hitchcock" - edited by James Bell, Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Hopkins, Barbara Bel Geddes, Bernard Herrmann, Betty Compson, Blackmail (1929), Bodega Bay, California, British Film Institute, Cary Grant, Charles Barr, Doris Day, Douglas Gordon, Downhill (1927), Esme Percy, Essays, Franz Waxman, François Truffaut, Graham Cutts, Gus Van Sant, Herbert Marshall, Ivor Novello, James Stewart, John Gielgud, Kim Novak, Leytonstone, London, Madeleine Carroll, Mary Rose, Matthew Sweet, Miklós Rózsa, Motion pictures, Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941), Murder! (1930), Neil Brand, North by Northwest (1959), Notorious (1946), Olympic games, Psycho (1960), Raymond Burr, Rear Window (1954), River Thames, London, Roger O. Thornhill, Sabotage (1936), Secret Agent (1936), Sight and Sound, Soundtrack: "Que Sera, Sera" - by Doris Day, Stage Fright (1950), Suzanne Pleshette, The Birds (1963), The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), The Manxman (1929), The Mountain Eagle (1926), The Pleasure Garden (1925), The Ring (1927), The White Shadow (1924), Tippi Hedren, Universal Studios, Vertigo (1958), Young and Innocent (1937)
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Abstract
Blackmail is one of five of his silent films that have been restored by the British Film Institute's National Archive and presented with new scores at live performances around town; his boxing film The Ring (27) played at the Hackney Empire in East London, a venue that Hitchcock apparently visited in his youth. [...]the resurrection and restoration of the "Hitchcock 9" should reveal something interesting about Hitchcock's silent cinema: it's all show and (The Lodger and Blackmail apart) no thrills. Here the Olympics had strangely little presence (elsewhere the aggressive corporate branding was inescapable).
