Hitchcock (1 Viewer)

[Grenouille]

I like Family Plot. Bruce Dern is always good.

I second that emotion.

Hitch's last film too.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Why is it better?

Bonus disc.

Vertigo - has the mono soundtrack.

Topaz
Torn Curtain
Marnie
The Birds
are all widescreen. The region 2 box has those four as 4:3 full screen pan and scan transfers.

There's another Hitchcock box, called The Signature Collection, which has a similarly less good region 2 counterpart.

Region 2 box contains six films
Strangers On A Train
North By Northwest
Dial M For Murder
The Wrong Man
Stage Fright
I Confess

Region 1 set has those six films plus
Mr And Mrs Smith
Suspicion
Foreign Correspondent

 

[GO]

Thats a sweet deal.My mots hitchcock mad so she is.crimbo stocking filler material big time.

 

[Nate Champion]

I second that emotion.

Hitch's last film too.

Thirded!

Bruce Dern is one of my favourite actors. Ever. Hitchcock was alleged to have said 'the reason I like you Bruce is that I never know what you are going to do.' Which just about sums about the kinetic, devilish brilliance of Dern in full flight. He is also absolutely exceptional (and I mean exceptional) in otherwise weak (imo) '70s flicks Black Sunday and Coming Home (yes, I like Ashby. Not this one though).
Best role probably King of Marvin Gardens - if you're a Dern fan and you haven't seen this, you've been depriving yourself for too long.
Pops up nowadays almost exclusively as a surly ol' screechy wise guy. The last thing I saw him in was the otherwise abysmal Milwaukee, Minnesota. Yet his careworn performance made it almost bearable.

Yeah, Family Plot is great screwball fun. Ed Lauter spontaneously gas in a handful of scenes. Hitchcock sure had good taste in hoodlums.

 

[whathappen?]

I love The Man Who KNew too Much

That's a great a box set, have any of ye been collecting the ones free with the Sunday Times?

 

[Alan Remorse]

Thirded!

Bruce Dern is one of my favourite actors. Ever. Hitchcock was alleged to have said 'the reason I like you Bruce is that I never know what you are going to do.' Which just about sums about the kinetic, devilish brilliance of Dern in full flight. He is also absolutely exceptional (and I mean exceptional) in otherwise weak (imo) '70s flicks Black Sunday and Coming Home (yes, I like Ashby. Not this one though).
Best role probably King of Marvin Gardens - if you're a Dern fan and you haven't seen this, you've been depriving yourself for too long.
Pops up nowadays almost exclusively as a surly ol' screechy wise guy. The last thing I saw him in was the otherwise abysmal Milwaukee, Minnesota. Yet his careworn performance made it almost bearable.

Yeah, Family Plot is great screwball fun. Ed Lauter spontaneously gas in a handful of scenes. Hitchcock sure had good taste in hoodlums.

Love Bruce Dern alright. I really like Coming Home, but his performance was always the thing I liked most about it.

Haven't seen King Of Marvin Gardens. Must get on it.

 

[Rachel666]

I got that boxset last christmas. But i think the "signature collection" was being given away free there with the sunday times over the course of a few weeks?


Marnie, rope, torn curtain, vertigo and frenzy are all totally amazing! holy shit, i think i'll lock myself away for chrimbo with this boxset again.

 

[therealjohnny]

Love Bruce Dern alright. I really like Coming Home, but his performance was always the thing I liked most about it.

Haven't seen King Of Marvin Gardens. Must get on it.

he's great in this too

havent seen it in years..must do somehting about that

Silent Running

 

[Alan Remorse]

Yeah Silent Running is deadly. Also has an amazing appearance in an episode of Six Feet Under.

 

[Nate Champion]

he's great in this too

havent seen it in years..must do somehting about that

Silent Running

Oh yeah, I haven't seen that in years. Very moving performance. Jesus, when you think of so many really good roles in such a short space of time. Then as David Thomson says 'the conspiracy against his career just seemed to take hold.'

Tattoo was probably his downfall.