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Book Review: The Making of Hitchcock’s The Birds
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Nov 4, 2014
Publisher: Kamera Books Release Date: September 1, 2013 Those who have read Tony Lee Moral’s “Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie” will not be surprised to hear that his book about the making of The Birds stands as one of the better books about the creation of a single Hitchcock film. Moral covers read more

Blu-ray Review: The Birds
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Nov 4, 2014
Distributor: Universal Studios Release Date: May 06, 2014 Region: Region A Length: 1:59:29 Video: 1080P AVC (MPEG-4) Main Audio: DTS-HD English Mono Master Audio (48kHz, 24-bit) Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish Ratio: 1.85:1 Bitrate: 29.37 Mbps Notes: This title has had a number of DVD relea read more

Blu-ray Review: Psycho
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Oct 12, 2014
The 50th Anniversary Edition of Psycho (1960) was one of the first reviews posted on this site. The exact same disc has recently been re-released with the same transfer, supplements, and artwork (minus the 50th Anniversary label). The only difference between the two releases is that the more recent read more

Offbeat Book Review: The Making of ‘Gone with the Wind’
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Oct 8, 2014
Publisher: University of Texas Press Release Date: September 1, 2014 Cinemaphiles have grown to expect certain things from “making of” texts. They expect the book to be a comprehensive account of a film’s production. They also expect a few photos to be found hidden throughout the text of the book. read more

Offbeat Blu-ray Review: Gone With the Wind – 75th Anniversary Edition
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Oct 8, 2014
Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: September 30, 2014 Region: Region A Length: 3:53:14 Video: 1080P (VC-1 Video) Main Audio: English Dolby TrueHD Audio (48 kHz, 16-bit) English Dolby Digital Mono Alternate Audio: French 5.1 Dolby Digital
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Book Review: The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Sep 15, 2014
Publisher: Nai010 Publishers Release Date: April 30, 2014 “Settings, of course, come into the preliminary plan, and usually I have a fairly clear idea about them; I was an art student before I took up with films. Sometimes I even think of backgrounds first.” -Alfred Hitchcock Having wor read more

Book Review: The Alfred Hitchcock Story
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Sep 6, 2014
Publisher: Titan Books Release Date: August 19, 2008 Ken Mogg’s coffee table book is better than similar books about the director. The title might lead one to believe that the book is another biography, but it is really a tribute to the director’s film output. There are similar books about the dire read more

Book Review: Film Craft: Directing
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Aug 17, 2014
Publisher: Focal Press Release Date: June 8, 2012 The FilmCraft book series focuses on specific disciplines within the filmmaking profession using interviews from noteworthy professionals in the field. This volume by Mike Goodridge features interviews with 16 directors, and profiles of 5 other dire read more

Blu-ray Review: Vertigo
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Aug 2, 2014
Distributor: Universal Studios Release Date: May 06, 2014 Region: Region Free Length: 2:08:27 Video: 1080P (VC-1) Main Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit) DTS English Mono Alternate Audio: DTS French Mono DTS Spanish Mono Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish Ratio: 1.85:1 Bitr read more

Book Review: Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jul 24, 2014
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing Release Date: November 9, 2011 Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design is the first book dedicated to one of the greatest American designers of the 20th century. Saul Bass created some of the most compelling images of American postwar visual culture. Having extend read more

Book Review: Alfred Hitchcock Interviews
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jul 18, 2014
Publisher: The University of Mississippi Press Release Date: April 15, 2003 “He is one of the most over-interviewed people imaginable…” –Janet Maslin (Boston After Dark, 1972) Janet Maslin’s statement has the ring of truth. Hitchcock had even developed a repertoire of standard answers to feed read more

Book Review: Hitchcock’s British Films
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jul 16, 2014
Publisher: Wayne State University Press (2nd Edition) Release Date: October 11, 2010 In 1977 (when this book was first published), critics tended to overlook (and even discount) the films from Alfred Hitchcock’s British period. This tendency seems especially short sighted. The formative years of any read more

Book Review: Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jul 9, 2014
Publisher: University of Illinois Press Release Date: October 1, 2011 Nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category of Best Critical/Biographical, 2012. Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick’s Scripting Hitchcock explores the collaborative process between read more

Book Review: Hitchcock’s Ear
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jul 5, 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Release Date: March 22, 2012 Expectation has a way of painting shadows upon a text that can easily doom the reader’s enjoyment. Certain readers might be disappointed with “Hitchcock’s Ear” if they are expecting an in-depth ‘behind the scenes’ study of Alfred read more

Book Review: Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adapter
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jun 30, 2014
Publisher: State University of New York Press Release Date: September 1, 2011 “Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adapter” is a collection of scholarly essays about Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptations (compiled and edited by R. Barton Palmer and David Boyd). While one might be tempted to compare read more

Book Review: Hitchcock and Adaptation: On the Page and Screen
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jun 25, 2014
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Release Date: March 14, 2014 “Hitchcock and Adaptation: On the Page and Screen” is a collection of scholarly essays about Hitchcock’s film adaptations (compiled and edited by Mark Osteen). In many ways, the book can be seen as a sequel to a previous collection read more

Book Review: Hitchcock’s Partner in Suspense: The Life of Screenwriter Charles Bennett
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jun 15, 2014
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Release Date: Mar 24, 2014 It would be rather short sighted to assume that Alfred Hitchcock’s creative evolution wasn’t altered by the various individuals that collaborated with him. Out of all the screenwriters that Hitchcock worked with, Charles Bennett read more

Book Review: Alfred Hitchcock’s Moviemaking Master Class
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jun 6, 2014
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions Release Date: May 1, 2013 There have been countless books devoted to Alfred Hitchcock. Most are film theory, many are biographies, and others are detailed accounts of the making of a specific Hitchcock film. Nearly every theoretic angle has been covered in metic read more

Blu-ray Review: Rear Window
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on May 10, 2014
Distributor: Universal Studios Release Date: May 06, 2014 Region: Region Free Length: 1:52:32 Video: 1080P (VC-1) Main Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio Mono (48kHz, 24-bit) Alternate Audio: DTS French Mono, DTS Spanish Mono Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish Ratio: 1.66:1 Bitrate: 31.99 Mbps Notes: read more

Offbeat Blu-ray Review: The 400 Blows – The Criterion Collection
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Apr 3, 2014
Distributor: Criterion Collection (USA) Release Date: 08/Apr/ 2014 Region: Region A Length: 1:40:02 Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC) Main Audio: Uncompressed French Mono Subtitles: English Ratio: 2.34:1 Bitrate: 38.83 Mbps Notes: This release also includes a DVD disc. Criterion released the film as a Blu read more
