Hitchcock in Vanity Fair

[Strang]

I went Saturday and it was great.  Other than the applause at the end, which is always stupid in a movie theater.  Unfortunately, they didn't stick to the schedule they posted on their site, so I couldn't steal In Bruges afterwards.

I think the weirdest part about this "inappropriate" laughter is that the same people are clapping at the end and coming back every week and probably talking about how great Hitchcock is.  You can't have it both ways.  You can't laugh at the acting or the green screen and then laud the director's accomplishments and clap enthusiastically at the end.

[Shawn]

Absolutely.  

Seeing the films on the big screen for the first time, I've been consistently amazed by what Hitchcock was able to accomplish on such a low budget way back when.  

I just don't get how they can't put into perspective that the effects were in their infancy.  I found some of are still very effective (like the man getting hit by the passing train in The Lady Vanishes).  There's something much more invigorating to me about pulling off an in-camera lo-fi effect than a quickly done cgi enhancement.

[Shawn]

The one I'm most looking forward to is Dial "M" For Murder in 3-D

I saw that at The Charles a long time ago and was pretty disappointed.  Not with the movie, of course, but the 3-D part.  It really didn't seem worth the awful glasses over glasses situation I have to deal with.

They did show it for free a few months ago.  Maybe that would've been worth it.

Was it the red & blue, or dual strip version you saw?  I saw the dual strip version tonight, and it was pretty cool (like the great grandfather of modern 3-d)

[Tom K.]

I think the weirdest part about this "inappropriate" laughter is that the same people are clapping at the end and coming back every week and probably talking about how great Hitchcock is.

Well, yes, inappropriate laughter is definitely annoying, but there's also an extent to which Hitchcock intended certain things to be funny.

I caught ROPE at The Charles a few weeks ago and there's no way that Hitchcock didn't intend more than a couple of those laughs.  Until the emotionally heavy climax there's quite a lot of intended humor there.  There's more than a little bit of camp in John Dall's performance.  And given what he was implying about Brandon's relationship with Phillip it's not as though Hitchcock was being subtle.

[Rev. Danny]

The one I'm most looking forward to is Dial "M" For Murder in 3-D

I saw that at The Charles a long time ago and was pretty disappointed.  Not with the movie, of course, but the 3-D part.  It really didn't seem worth the awful glasses over glasses situation I have to deal with.

They did show it for free a few months ago.  Maybe that would've been worth it.

Was it the red & blue, or dual strip version you saw?  I saw the dual strip version tonight, and it was pretty cool (like the great grandfather of modern 3-d)

SHUT YOUR STINKIN' TRAP!!

[nate.3.0]

So, Hitchcock fans I'm sure are more than familiar with this incredible career spanning book, but have you ever heard the raw tapes?

Doing such an extensive interview through an interpreter is mind numbing to me.  I just don't have the patience at all (okay, that's a lie.  If I had the chance to interview Truffaut back in the day or Goddard, I would arduously sit there with a translator, eating up every second).