Hitchcock in the New Age
Posted by charley on July 5th, 2008I guess I’ve always been a movie lover, probably through my Dad’s obsession with keeping a large collection of video taped movies off the telly, of which I once spent an entire summer holiday writing a list of each and every tape with what was on it.
I think we still have that somewhere, but after 5 years of not keeping it up to date it’s probably useless. Now I’m doing a Film Studies module at Uni, where my love of movies is getting greater by the day. I’m beginning to download, I mean buy films every day and have found a new obsession with Memento, adding it to my ultimate favourites where Garden State and Eternal Sunshine sit proud.
The first film we watched in Lectures was Psycho, an absolute classic in my opinion, which prompted me to discover more Hitchcock masterpieces. My Dad’s always been a big fan and encouraged me to get interested in it! So how impressed was I when Vanity Fair brought out these fantastic pictorial remakes of classic Hitchcock movies? Very! They’re not only beautiful, but they stick to Hitchcock’s very unique style without diminishing it. Jodie Foster’s in particular sticks out for me purely because of the colours, magical…
