Spellbound Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Starring Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, and Michael Chekhov USA, 111 min – 1945. Famous (among other things) for being one of the first Hollywood films to deal with psychoanalysis, Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound is the perfect blend of classic Hollywood romantic-murder-drama and Freud’s theories. The film is not so utterly in …
True Blood Review- Season 4, Episode 8: “Spellbound” Written by Alan Ball Directed by Daniel Minahan Airs Sundays at 9pm (ET) on HBO This week on True Blood: Sookie and Eric get stoned on each other’s blood, Marcus shows some good, and later bad, judgment, Tommy takes the money and runs, Mikey’s Ghost Nanny takes …
More than any other filmmaker, Alfred Hitchcock is the quintessential 20th century movie director. He began his career in the days of silent pictures and continued all the way until 1976, with Family Plot. During his long career, he directed over 40 features and once said that any movie director could surprise his audience by …
Undertones: Volume 2 In the 1940s the consumption of alcohol was predominantly glamorised on the silver screen. Starlets sipped sensuously on their g & t’s whilst detectives downed shots of whiskey before departing the office on a hot lead. If this was an accurate portrayal of the time, one has to ask how the hell …