Tag Archives: Hitchcock

Two Prototypes: What Price Hollywood? (1932) and Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Mark DuPré

Prototype: a first, typical or preliminary model of something. I’ve seen a boatload of old and foreign films recently but haven’t had the time to write about them. Yet when I notice a similarity between two films that don’t seem … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged A Star is Born, Bill Murray, Cat People, Citizen Kane, Clint Morgan, Constance Bennett, Dali, David O. Selznick, Double Indemnity, film noir, George Cukor, German Expressionist, Hitchcock, IMDB, Lowell Sherman, M, Neil Hamilton, Nicholas Musuraca, Out of the Past, Peter Lorre, prototype, Spellbound, Stranger on the Third Floor, The Maltese Falcon, Val Lewton, What Price Hollywood? | Leave a comment

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Mark DuPré

I’ve heard over the years that Foreign Correspondent is “minor Hitchcock,” which of course begs an understanding of what “minor” means here. In more recent years, however, I kept hearing that it’s not so much minor as simply half-forgotten and … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Alfred Basserman, Alfred Hitchcock, Alma, Barbara Stanwyck, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, David O. Selznick, Foreign Correspondent, Gary Cooper, George Sanders, Gone with the Wind, Herbert Marshall, Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Fontaine, Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Laurence Olivier, Lifeboat, Rear Window, Rebecca, Robert Donat, Sullivan’s Travels, The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, The Locket, The More the Merrier, The Palm Beach Story, Walter Wanger, World War Two | Leave a comment

The Salesman (Iranian, 2016)

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Mark DuPré

For MSM, “my Persian son” The Salesman is the newest film from Iranian writer/director Asghar Farhadi, creator and Oscar winner (for Best Foreign Film) for 2011’s A Separation. As with A Separation, The Saleman is a meticulously crafted, well-acted film … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films | Tagged A Separation, Arthur Miller, Asghar Farhadi, Babak Karimi, Best Foreign Film, Dardenne, Death of a Salesman, Deux jours une nuit, Hitchcock, L'Enfant, Shahab Hosseini, Shakespeare, Tareney Alidoosti, The Kid on the Bike, The Salesman | Leave a comment

Arrival

Posted on November 21, 2016 by Mark DuPré

When I experienced Arrival, I couldn’t help but think of the last line of “The Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot: “Not with a bang but a whimper.” While the plot—worldwide alien visitation and the struggle to communicate—sounds like many another … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films | Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, Amy Adams, Arrival, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Denis Villeneuve, Hitchcock, Incendies, Inception, Interstellar, Jeremy Renner, Jessica Chastain, La Jetée, Nancy Meyers, Sicario, The Sixth Sense | Leave a comment

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Mark DuPré

Somewhere in the middle of loud action, threatening dinosaurs and pixilated activities in films ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, Tom Cruise managed to release the latest film in the Mission Impossible series. Rogue Nation is one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films | Tagged Casablanca, Ethan Hunt, Hitchcock, Ilsa, Ingrid Bergman, James Bond, Jeremy Renner, Jerry McGuire, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Rebecca Ferguson, Renee Zellweger, Simon Pegg, Spectre, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Tom Cruise | Leave a comment

Five More Supporting Performances that Don’t Get the Attention They Deserve

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Mark DuPré

A while ago, I took a side road for a moment to pay tribute to five underrated performances: Rhys Ifans in Notting Hill Carey Mulligan in Bleak House Anna Faris in Just Friends Madame Konstantin in Notorious Delores Gray in … Continue reading →

Posted in Film-Related Articles | Tagged Anthony Perkins, Double Indemnity, Edward G. Robinson, Hitchcock, J.K. Simmons, Knocked Up, Kristen Wiig, Psycho, Robert Walker, Spider-Man, Strangers on a Train | 1 Comment

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Two Prototypes: What Price Hollywood? (1932) and Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

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