François Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock/Truffaut which opens in Berkeley on Dec. 11 In 1966, François Truffaut published a book about the work of his fellow director, Alfred Hitchcock. Simply entitled “Hitchcock/Truffaut,” it went on to become one of the most famous of all film tomes, one considered indispensable by many cinéastes (though to my […]
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Counting crows: Why are there so many in Berkeley?
Crows staging in a tree after sunset, Alfred Hitchcock-style: their numbers have increased significantly in the Bay Area. Photo: Elaine Miller Bond “Why are there so many darn crows in Berkeley these days?” We get that question a lot at Berkeleyside, and Golden Gate Audubon gets it too. It’s not just Berkeley. Crows are on […]
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Big Screen Berkeley: The Wrong Man, Hitchcock’s gem
The Wrong Man, starring Henry Fonda: one of the least Hitchcockian films of all the famous director’s movies, starring Henry Fonda: one of the least Hitchcockian films of all the famous director’s movies Though auteur theory was still little more than a glimmer in François Truffaut’s eye, the American public was quite familiar with Alfred […]
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Big Screen Berkeley: Hitchcock’s “Sabotage” still shocks
“Sabotage”: From its opening shot of a dimming light bulb, the film defies expectations “Sabotage”: From its opening shot of a dimming light bulb, the film defies expectations According to the unattributed dictionary definition that prefaces Alfred Hitchcock’s Sabotage, the word sabotage means ‘wilful destruction of buildings or machinery with the object of alarming a […]
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Big Screen Berkeley: Suspicion
Cary Grant brings Joan Fontaine her milk in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Suspicion”. Cary Grant brings Joan Fontaine her milk in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Suspicion”. Though he’s been dead for more than 30 years, Alfred Hitchcock remains an instantly recognizable pop culture icon. His French acolyte Claude Chabrol, on the other hand, could have walked down any street […]
