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	The Spanish Prisoner: For once, a movie of Hitchcockian proportions
		Fortunate are the artists whose names have mutated into adjectives.
		While I don't think "tarantinoesque" is quite an established word yet, "Hitchcockian" undoubtedly is. The funny thing is that not only can it be applied to the movies made without any contributions from Alfred Hitchcock himself, but the best movies of this type (for example, Charade) are made by other people.
		David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner is an exemplary specimen of the genre, not only being a tense thriller in its own right, but also providing some serious subtext to go along with all the precise movements of the clockwork plot.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V118/N29/prisoner.29a.html (491 words)

	Film Listings Archive: Contemporary Belgian Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It has a neorealist, documentary-like quality that distinguishes it from the highly stylized, formalist, Hitchcockian exercises with which Chabrol would follow it, but its play with motifs of doubling and exchange was obviously inspired by Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, and it remains "as germinal to Chabrol's oeuvre as Breathless is to Godard's" (Robin Wood).
		A lush Hitchcockian thriller set in Provence, the big-budget A double tour was Chabrol's first film in colour, and his first foray into what would become favourite territory: provincial bourgeois morality and criminality.
		Chabrol's fondness for Hitchcockian motifs is in evidence, while two of the principals of Le Beau Serge, his 1958 debut film, have prominent roles: Bernadette Lafont, as the widowed Hélène, and Jean-Claude Brialy, as a gay uncle who collects glass eyes.
	www.cinematheque.bc.ca /archives/chabrol.html (1632 words)

	Wellington Film Society - FRENZY
		Part of the wry Hitchcockian charm, however, is the way the shooting tactic acts as a guide to the director's own areas of interest in the picture.
		Even the two men's friendship and its multiple betrayals, which Hitchcockians such as Chabrol or Truffaut would possibly have seen as the true centre of the film, is here allowed to amount to little more than a device to bring the two ends of the plot together.
		The cement that holds the bricks in place is provided by the return trip to his lost London of the 1930s; and perhaps by that Hitchcockian trait, more marked now that he is no longer using star players, of casting a cold eye on all his characters.
	filmsociety.wellington.net.nz /db/screeningdetail.php?id=106&sy=2002 (1124 words)

	kamera.co.uk - book review - Pocket Essentials: Alfred Hitchcock by Paul Duncan - reviewed by Deryck Swan
		Aside from adding a personal touch to his book largely missing from these pocket guides, Duncan's little reverie is a remarkably shrewd way into the flavour of Hitchcock's work.
		It's being used to illustrate a quintessentially Hitchcockian dilemma.
		They refer to the visual language that Hitchcock used.' For this author saying Brian De Palma is 'Hitchcockian' means little more than saying he tilts the camera every now and then and circles his onscreen lovers as they kiss.
	www.kamera.co.uk /books/pocket_essentials_alfred_hitchcock.php (742 words)

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		Many filmmakers have attempted to absorb elements of Hitchcockian structure in their films--basically because Hitchcock did various formal tropes so well and with commercial success.
		In _Vertigo_, to give one instance, Hitchcock solves the problem of how to communicate his main character's response to heights by creating an elaborate visual effect, which is achieved by simultaneously zooming the camera's lens in one direction while tracking the camera in the other.
		He takes another sequence from _Strangers on a Train_, in which Bruno appears to Guy, once again stiff and menacing as his is in the tennis match, but this time in front of the Jefferson Memorial.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.994/kolker.994 (1642 words)

	Perfect Blue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I first read of Perfect Blue in an advertisement for a showing at the now-closed UC theatre which called it "Hitchcockian." I thought at the time that this what quite a billing for a piece of Japanese animation to live up to, considering the relative disdain that medium has for intricately crafted storytelling.
		As it turns out, there is no better word than Hitchcockian to describe this extremely gory suspense film.
		The story definitely heads some places that weren't obvious to me, and the result is the best animated film from Japan (outside of the works of Hiyao Miyazaki, director of Princess Mononoke and Sprited Away) for several years.
	www.stoneschool.com /Reviews/PerfectBlue.html (357 words)

	IGN: The Stax Report: The ''Hitchcockian'' Edition
		This week marks the 104th birthday of the master of suspense, filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, so this column is in honor of that occasion.
		One pet peeve I have about contemporary psychological thrillers is when they're hyped as being "Hitchcockian" when it seems obvious that neither the filmmakers nor the critics making such comparisons seem to know what the term really suggests.
		A psychological thriller in and of itself is not Hitchcockian.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/433/433582p1.html (839 words)

	zizek/ripley
		Features like this attest to the fact that Wagner was a Hitchcockian avant la lettre: in Hitchcock's films, we also find the same visual or other motif that insists, imposing itself through an uncanny compulsion and repeating itself from one film to another, in totally different narrative contexts.
		According to Svetlana, Stalin's daughter, the last gesture of the dying Stalin, significantly preceded by the cast of the evil gaze, was the same gesture as in Wagner's last operas, the gesture of threateningly raising the left hand:
		It is the reference to this pre-ontological realm that allows us to approach the quintessential Hitchcockian scene which was never shot - precisely because it renders the basic matrix of his work directly, its actual filming undoubtedly would have produced a vulgar, tasteless effect.
	www.lacan.com /hitch.html (3933 words)

	'Rear Window' - Still a Joy
		As much as I admire all of these, especially "Vertigo," I can't imagine that any one of them will top the feelings of exhilaration that are prompted by "Rear Window," this most bittersweet of Hitchcockian suspense-romances.
		Make no mistake about it: "Rear Window" is as much of a romance as it is a brilliant exercise in suspense.
		In a very general way, it effortlessly demonstrates all that we now understand to be the splendor of the Hitchcockian cinema of the absurdly logical.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/100983hitch-window-reflect.html (1266 words)

	Red Lights DVD Movie and Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A brilliant Hitchcockian exercise from director Cedric Kahn: A middle-aged couple drives south from Paris to pick up their kids at camp.
		Very old fashioned feel to it, the Hitchcockian comparison is appropriate.
		The way the film unraveled was masterful, and the conclusion wrapped everything up nicely leaving no loose ends, as I feared it would.
	www.new-release-dvds.com /red_lights/asin_B0007IO6G4 (710 words)

	kamera.co.uk - feature item - One Hundred Years of Hitchcock by Paul Duncan
		When people describe a Brian De Palma or Richard Franklin or whoever film as being Hitchcockian they are usually referring to certain camera movements and angles.
		After Janet Leigh is killed we are not let off the hook until the end of the film, over an hour later.
		However, the Hitchcockian directors mostly concentrate on the shock aspects of
	www.kamera.co.uk /features/hitchcock.html (2675 words)

	PMC: Kolker.994 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Unlike the film's references to more recent mad killer movies, which audiences readily recognize, the Hitchcockian quotations are coveted.
		To set the scene for Scorsese's Hitchcockian reclamations, I needed first to address larger notions of cinematic form.
		The structural base of this sequence is the shot/reaction shot--a look at the character and a cut to what the character is looking at--the basic way Hitchcock builds a viewer's comprehension of his character's situation (a construction basic to all cinema, that Hitchcock used with particular finesse).
	www.uvm.edu /~hag/presentations/iom/kolkerqt994.html (1469 words)

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		This snappy, sophisticated romantic thriller begins innocently enough, as a contingent of eccentric tourists spend the night in a picture-postcard village inn nestled in the Swiss Alps before setting off on the train the next morning.
		In a wonderfully Hitchcockian twist on "meeting cute," attractive young Iris (Margaret Lockwood) clashes with brash music student Gilbert (Michael Redgrave) when his nocturnal concerts give her no peace.
		She gets him kicked out of his room, so he barges in on hers: True love is inevitable, but not before they are both plunged into an international conspiracy.
	www.writeinstyle.com /mall/dvd/433908.html (1075 words)

	Roadgames (1981): Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edwards, Grant Page - PopMatters Film Review
		On an obvious level this is established by the connection between Curtis and her famous Hitchcock, damsel-in-distress mother, Janet Leigh.
		What cements Roadgames ' Hitchcockian overtones, though, is the way Franklin borrows the basic premise of Rear Window (1954), replacing its apartment block window setting with the windscreen of a truck.
		Nevertheless, Roadgames is ultimately a clever Hitchcockian soufflé that "is full of air, but rises nicely," to quote a self-congratulatory metaphor Franklin uses on the featurette.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/r/roadgames-dvd.shtml (1484 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
		But the boy is no newcomer to the Iranian desert and he uses his knowledge to evade her.
		This Hitchcockian pursuit leads through ancient ruins, goat herders' cottages, underground aqueducts and finally to the boy's house and a gruesome end.
		The boy's desire for revenge and the woman's deteriorating health and increasing disorientation mean that the original reason for the chase is quickly forgotten.
	starbulletin.com /2004/09/17/features/story5.html (252 words)

	101 Greatest Films of Mystery & Suspense - Otto Penzler - eBooks
		It includes the finest Hitchcockian suspense movies, the toughest gangster flicks, the wittiest "Thin Man" titles, the bleakest noir films and the best of the '80s and '90s.
		The finest Hitchcockian suspense movies, the toughest gangster flicks, the wittiest Thin Man titles, the bleakest noir films, and the best of the '80s and '90s.
		This survey is enhanced by the extensive knowledge and sharp style of Otto Penzler, who Booklist calls "a mystery superbuff." In reviews both savvy and engaging, Penzler presents a slew of interesting facts for each and every film encouraging you to see these classic films for the first, or maybe the hundredth, time.
	www.ebookmall.com /alpha-titles/101-Greatest-Films-of-Mystery-Suspense-Penzler-ibooks-cr.htm (434 words)

	MrJoaquin.com ~ A Joaquin Phoenix FanSite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		But the director doesn't display the spirit of a natural entertainer; while intellectual notions abound, he never grabs the audience by the hand to pull them into the tale emotionally, which spells muted potential with the general public internationally.
		The three imitations, who can be identified by staples in their arms, are all pretty crazy, suggesting that the cloning process hasn't quite been perfected two decades from now.
		The threat of the clones naturally binds Elena and John closer together as they face the smiling malevolence of her owners, and it's at this point that the Hitchcockian template of the endangered couple on the run kicks in.
	www.moxzii.com /joaquin/iaal (12454 words)

	Halloween - 25th Anniversary Edition - Review (The Babysitter Murders, John Carpenter's Halloween)
		That night, as bookish virgin Laurie Strode babysits while her not so virginal friends Annie and Linda are in the house across the road, heavy-breathing Myers starts his murderous campaign again, and it seems that the only thing coming between him and his selected victims is Dr Loomis - and a rather large knife.
		The film made a whole generation of filmgoers terrified of familiar residential streets, cosy domestic interiors, and pre-marital sex.
		A monument to Hitchcockian suspense, it brings terror out of the gothic castle and into the suburban streets and homes where it belongs.
	www.moviegazette.co.uk /cinereviews/475 (1056 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes: The Vine: Can You Handle It?
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	DVD Times - Rebecca: Criterion Collection
		However, the film is nonetheless Hitchcockian, perhaps more so than the man himself gave credit for.
		Mrs Danvers is up there with Norman Bates as a great Hitchcockian villain, and Anderson plays the part in a weirdly subhuman way, as if Danvers (the 'Mrs' seems utterly bizarre) was a visitor from another planet of some kind.
		Despite being the only Hitchcock film to win an Oscar for best film, its pleasures are often literary, rather than cinematic, and the Hitchcockian touches present were his act of rebellion against Selznick's domineering stance, rather than an organic union of director and material.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=3577 (1427 words)

	SCREEN-L Archives - August 2001, week 4
		Hitchcockian ambiguity: ROPE, THE LODGER, SABOTEUR, UNDER CAPRICORN, et al.
		Hitchcockian ambiguity: ROPE, THE LODGER, SABOTEUR,UNDER CAPRICORN, et al.
		Re: Hitchcockian ambiguity: ROPE,THE LODGER,SABOTEUR,UNDER CAPRICORN, et al.
	bama.ua.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0108d&L=screen-l (249 words)

	Egoyan's Journey
		And Hitchcockian cinema is almost founded on that principle.
		In some ways it is anti-Hitchcockian in science, but very Hitchcockian in tone.
		So that was a way of acknowledging that we were about to enter into that zone.
	www.horschamp.qc.ca /egoyan.html (3899 words)

	NPR : 'PI' AND 'WHATEVER'
		Mondello says that "Whatever" is a gritty and vivid picture that will probably scare the heck out of the parents of teenagers nationwide -- but its story is a little unfocused.
		"Pi," on the other hand, is an extremely well-written movie with equal parts Kafkaesque paranoia and Hitchcockian suspense.
		Though neither film is likely to challenge any of the summer blockbusters at the box office, Mondello says that both movies are worth a look.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1034276 (171 words)

	IGN: Fade Out
		September 23, 2004 - Milla Jovovich, fresh off her second portrayal of videogame heroine Alice in the Resident Evil sequel, has made a pact to star opposite Billy Bob Thornton (how does this guy get all the chicks!?) in writer-director Michael Cristofer's Fade Out, according to today's Hollywood Reporter.
		The trade describes Fade Out as a "Hitchcockian thriller" that centers around "a screenwriter (Thornton) with a history of mental illness who suspects his wife (Jovovich) of infidelity only to find her missing.
		When he begins to write a script about his suspicions of her whereabouts, he loses the ability to tell the difference between reality and the plot of the project he's working on."
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/550/550504p1.html (276 words)

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		IT had the trappings of a Greek tragedy with a touch of Hitchcockian mystery thrown in.
		It effectively ruined the opening show for the Greeks.
		It is time the Government took note of the alarming spread of the practice at home and tackled the problem on a war-footing.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20040828012300600.htm&date=tss2735/&prd=tss& (780 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on What Lies Beneath at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A new term has cropped up in the dictionary (“Hitchcockian”), every hot director with a macabre sense of humor is dubbed the New Master of Suspense and, let’s face it, we’ve all seen more than our fair share of shower scenes.
		What Lies Beneath is a creepy ghost story with only a few drops of blood, the kind of movie to make you toss your popcorn and clutch the person sitting next to you in the theater (who, hopefully, is someone you know).
		If you strap yourself in for the ride knowing it’s going to be Hitchcockian in the best sense of the word, then you’ll have a wonderful, white-knuckled two hours.
	www.epinions.com /content_9848589956 (1241 words)

	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Confidentially Yours (1983)
		This wasn't always evident in his own work -- unlike Brian De Palma for example, Truffaut worked in other genres and had a style all his own -- but he wasn't above making an occasional thriller in the Hitchcockian vein.
		It was a cross, actually, between a Hitchcockian thriller and film noir.
		It was filmed in fl and white, which accentuates the nightmarish predicament of the characters and the decadent world they inhabit.
	www.rinkworks.com /movies/m/confidentially.yours.1983.shtml (205 words)

	HIGH ANXIETY (1977) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		To pull off a good satire of a satirist, especially of Hitchcock's stature, then the material must be brilliant.
		Most of them happen when Brook's deviates from the Hitchcockian material and goes for his own.
		Brooks is hired as a psychiatrist for the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous.
	www.softcom.net /users/chuckmc/entertainment/movies/highanxi.htm (313 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Paint It Black : Main
		In this Hitchcockian thriller, a wealthy and naive young sculptor learns that people are n...
		In this Hitchcockian thriller, a wealthy and naive young sculptor learns that people are not always nice and helpful.
		His first mistake is to fall for the seductress who runs the gallery that has an exclusive on his work.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/26260/moviemain.jhtml (189 words)

	The Oakland Press: Marquee: King story's 'Window' has Hitchcockian tones to it, too
		The Oakland Press: Marquee: King story's 'Window' has Hitchcockian tones to it, too
		The first shot after the credits of "Secret Window" is an elaborate one.
		Then the camera moves smoothly in to the shore and across the grounds and in through a window of the cabin, and it regards various rooms before closing in on a large mirror that reflects a man asleep on a couch.
	www.theoaklandpress.com /stories/031204/mar_20040312016.shtml (991 words)

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