tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214297712303916286.post6349617497972077898..comments2023-04-16T07:57:04.629-04:00Comments on Screen Savour: Family Plot (1976)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214297712303916286.post-15092814937062522422009-11-07T14:35:55.808-05:002009-11-07T14:35:55.808-05:00Your Hitchcock reviews are quite enjoyable!....I h...Your Hitchcock reviews are quite enjoyable!....I haven't gotten around to reviewing too many myself but you have inspired me to take time for Hitch in my own blog (www.silverscreenstories.wordpress.com)<br /><br />keep up the good work!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214297712303916286.post-73686353705187814652009-05-30T12:05:13.746-04:002009-05-30T12:05:13.746-04:00Thanks, FilmDr! I'm only, what, 7 months late? Ha....Thanks, FilmDr! I'm only, what, 7 months late? Ha.<br /><br />I'd love to devote some analysis to some of my favorite scenes in my favorite Hitchcock films. It's a rather daunting task because so many film theorists have done it nicely before me and I hardly consider myself much of a theorist. But I don't feel I've written sufficiently on a few of favorite Hitchcock films, so I'll definitely revisit. Perhaps we could get around to that joint series that's been mentioned before — assign a few people some films and all of us dive on in. I've got dibs on <I>Rear Window</I>.<br /><br />Your point about Hitchcock slipping is well taken. I haven't been able to answer it to my own satisfaction, nor have I read anyone who can. I'm interested in the theory about losing control, both of his obsessions and his art, although that strikes me as only part of the equation. What makes it so fascinating to me is that the possibility of him losing control occurs around the same moment Truffaut begins his interviews (the early 1960s) and also around the same time Hollywood begins a fundamental shift away from the style of the 1950s and into the New Hollywood of the late 1960s. And also you can't discount that his reliable team from the 1950s — Herbert Coleman, Robert Burks, George Tomasini, Bernard Herrmann, and even his wife, Alma, who had become ill — was broken apart. It could just be too that the material wasn't there for him; his films toward the end (with the exception of <I>Marnie</I> and <I>Frenzy</I>, the better films post-<I>Birds</I>) exhibit the same sense of apathy that haunted his earlier, non-Hitchcockian films in Britain and Hollywood. The curious aspect of auteur is that it makes him such a transparent director but also such an enigma, and those who have written extensively about Hitchcock - at least who I've read - don't seem to settle on any solid answer either.T.S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00945932279787919282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214297712303916286.post-65287705326866651862009-05-30T10:06:40.154-04:002009-05-30T10:06:40.154-04:00Congratulations, T.S. for concluding your excellen...Congratulations, T.S. for concluding your excellent Hitchcock series! I hope that in the future you might consider writing further analyses of the major scenes of Hitch's canon. <br /><br />I still wonder if there is more to say about why and how Hitchcock lost his edge in some of these later films. Perhaps he lost the balance between his obsessions and his artistic control?The Film Doctor https://www.blogger.com/profile/03073505923746994988noreply@blogger.com