Alfred Hitchcock was so prolific a director that very few years go by without a handful of his 53 feature films celebrating a significant anniversary. 2024 is no exception: his first version of The Man Who Knew Too Much turns 90 this year, Lifeboat drifts into its 80s, Dial M For Murder rings up 70 years, and Marnie – the baby of the bunch – is now a sprightly 60 years old.
Released just months after Dial M, Hitchcock’s sweatiest masterpiece Rear Window also celebrates 70 years of voyeuristic thrills this year. To celebrate, here’s an exclusive extract from regular Empire contributor Neil Alcock’s new book, Hitchology: A Film-by-Film Guide to the Style and Themes of Alfred Hitchcock. An accessible introduction for newcomers to Hitchcock and an insightful companion for devoted fans, Hitchology has been described by Empire’s editor Nick De Semlyen as “incisive, fresh and thunderingly entertaining.”
Have a read below, and look...
Released just months after Dial M, Hitchcock’s sweatiest masterpiece Rear Window also celebrates 70 years of voyeuristic thrills this year. To celebrate, here’s an exclusive extract from regular Empire contributor Neil Alcock’s new book, Hitchology: A Film-by-Film Guide to the Style and Themes of Alfred Hitchcock. An accessible introduction for newcomers to Hitchcock and an insightful companion for devoted fans, Hitchology has been described by Empire’s editor Nick De Semlyen as “incisive, fresh and thunderingly entertaining.”
Have a read below, and look...
- 4/12/2024
- by Neil Alcock
- Empire - Movies
This week's Empire Podcast has more guests than the Overlook Hotel, all chatting to Chris Hewitt about their new movies. First, producer Jordan Peele tells Chris why he was so taken by Dev Patel's directorial debut, Monkey Man, that he came on board to help it get a theatrical release. Plus, they also talk why Peele is no longer acting. [15:40 - 30:56 approx] Then, Rufus Sewell — who plays Prince Andrew in Scoop, a film based on the infamous 2019 Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis — and director Philip Martin talk about the task of playing one of the most famous men on the planet. [44:28 - 59:38 approx] And finally, while The First Omen — the prequel to The Omen, which shall henceforth be known as The Second Omen — is a terrifying tour de force, Chris' interview with its stars, Nell Tiger Free and Bill Nighy, is anything but as they talk about being dressed by the Vatican, being hit by lightning,...
- 4/5/2024
- by Chris Hewitt
- Empire - Movies
If you were to find yourself on the corner of Prospect St and 36th St Nw in the Washington D. C. district of Georgetown in the 1950s or ’60s, a cursory glance down a perilous flight of stairs would have you thinking twice about continuing your merry little jaunt. The seventy-five steps would later be christened The Exorcist Steps, thanks to the dramatic finale of the late William Friedkin’s 1973 Horror classic. However in the decades pre-plunging priest, this vertiginous staircase was known locally as the Hitchcock Steps, so suspenseful would be your descent, and so ingrained in the public’s consciousness was the director.
The shadow of Alfred Hitchcock looms large over cinema. His fifty-three films serve as influential landmarks of the film industry and, over his six decades, drew a line in the Hollywood sand between innovators and imitators. Vanguarding his way across the silent era via the...
The shadow of Alfred Hitchcock looms large over cinema. His fifty-three films serve as influential landmarks of the film industry and, over his six decades, drew a line in the Hollywood sand between innovators and imitators. Vanguarding his way across the silent era via the...
- 3/18/2024
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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