Variety (2012) - Spellbound by the notorious Mr. H
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- article: Spellbound by the notorious Mr. H
- author(s): Justin Chang
- journal: Variety (03/Dec/2012)
- issue: volume 429, issue 4, page 14
- journal ISSN: 0042-2738
- publisher: Reed Business Information, Inc. (US)
- keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville, Anthony Hopkins, British Film Institute, David O. Selznick, Helen Mirren, Hitchcock (2012), Janet Leigh, Motion picture directors & producers, Motion pictures, Movie reviews, Psycho (1960), Sacha Gervasi, Scarlett Johansson, The Birds (1963), Tippi Hedren, Vertigo (1958)
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Abstract
On Aug. 1, the day of the Sight & Sound announcement, Tippi Hedren appeared at the Television Critics Assn.'s press tour to discuss "The Girl," an unsettling HBO/BBC drama about her tempestuous dealings with Hitchcock while making "The Birds" and "Marnie." "The Girl," directed by Julian Jarrold, is one of two pictures this season to turn the Master of Suspense's behind-the-scenes drama into biopic fodder, the other is Sacha Gervasi's "Hitchcock," a genial farce about his struggle to wrestle "Psycho" to the screen.
Article
More than three decades after his death, Alfred Hitchcock is having quite a year.
In July, the British Film Institute presented restorations of nine Hitchcock silents, followed by a threemonth retrospective of the director's work. The timing couldn't have been better At the height of all the Hitch hullabaloo, "Vertigo" topped the once–a–decade critics' poll run by the BFI's Sight & Sound magazine, knocking "Citizen Kane" from its long–held perch as the greatest film of all time.
Not all the attention has been quite so favorable. On Aug. 1, the day of the Sight & Sound announcement, Tippi Hedren appeared at the Television Critics Assn.'s press tour to discuss "The Girl," an unsettling HBO/BBC drama about her tempestuous dealings with Hitchcock while making "The Birds" and "Marnie." At the time, I noted the irony of Hitchcock being saluted for "Vertigo" – by far his most personal and confessional work, the film in which he most directly acknowledged his desire to tame, control and possess his beautiful blonde muses – even as one of those muses was speaking none too flatteringly, about the collaboration that launched and torpedoed her career.
"The Girl," directed by Julian Jarrold, is one of two pictures this season to turn the Master of Suspense's behind–the–scenes drama into biopic fodder, the other is Sacha Gervasi's "Hitchcock," a genial farce about his struggle to wrestle "Psycho" to the sc...
