tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214297712303916286.post680878709551246185..comments2023-04-16T07:57:04.629-04:00Comments on Screen Savour: Under Capricorn (1949)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214297712303916286.post-32940607415164887162008-11-08T17:13:00.000-05:002008-11-08T17:13:00.000-05:00Yes, I can well understand why it caused you heada...Yes, I can well understand why it caused you headaches and many sleepless nights. LOL! That's true Dark City Dame, many do consider it one of the master's "most psychologically complex and lavishly haunting productions." It's not a dismal film, but it's one of teh weaker Hitchcocks, for the reasons T.S. reports in yet another definitive Hitchcock examination.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214297712303916286.post-5384282024578861662008-11-06T09:23:00.000-05:002008-11-06T09:23:00.000-05:00Oh! this Hitchcock film caused me "endless headach...Oh! this Hitchcock film caused me <I>"endless headaches"</I> and "many" <I>"sleepless nights,"</I> but I finally, watched {it} Hitchcock's 1949 film (<B>"Under Capricorn"</B>)<BR/>to the end!... Phew!<BR/>With that said,...<BR/><BR/>... T.S. said, "It wasn't until I began digging around the Hitchcock coves on the Internet that I discovered a small band of Under Capricorn loyalists who see the film as one of Hitchcock's most psychologically complex and lavishly haunting productions." <BR/><BR/>This is "true" because I have discovered some of these same <B>UC</B> loyalist(s) while searching the internet and reading books about Alfred Hitchcock's 1949 film <B>Under Capricorn</B> and all I can say is...long live!..."Stranger on a Train," "The Lady Vanishes,"<BR/>The 39 Steps" "Rear Window" N by NW <BR/>etc, etc, etc...I guess to each his (or her) own! (This is just my opinion about the film "Under Capricorn" it may not be that <B>"bad!"</B> after all?!?)<BR/>dcd ;-)ratatouille's archiveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06369967577590947967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214297712303916286.post-31620606813750392232008-11-05T21:10:00.000-05:002008-11-05T21:10:00.000-05:00I really like Cardiff's particular style of ci...I really like Cardiff's particular style of cinematography - the shadowy color. I've been noticing it a lot lately in 50s American films like War and Peace & The Barefoot Contessa - I'd already seen the Powell/Pressburger movies, but I guess I just attributed the flair more to Powell or something. You're right about it "popping" - for some reason it makes me think of those ViewFinder toys I used to like as a little kid in the 80s.Joel Bockohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.com