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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

Blu-ray Review: Rope

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Mar 1, 2014

Distributor: Universal Studios Release Date: 04/Jun/2013 Region: Region Free Length: 01:20:48 Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC) Main Audio: English Mono DTS-HD Master Audio (48 kHz, 24-bit) Alternate Audio: French Mono DTS Audio Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish Ratio: 1.35:1 Bitrate: 32 Mbps Notes: This read more

Blu-ray Review: Foreign Correspondent – The Criterion Collection

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Feb 5, 2014

Spine #969 Available February 18, 2014 Distributor: Criterion Collection (USA) Release Date: 18/Feb/2014 Region: Region A Length: 120 min Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC) Main Audio: English Mono LPCM Audio (48 kHz, 1152 Kbps, 24-bit) Subtitles:  English Ratio: 1.37:1 Bitrate: 23.98 Mbps Notes: This rel read more

Blu-ray Review: The Trouble with Harry

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jan 31, 2014

Distributor: Universal Studios Release Date: 02/Jul/2013 Region: Region Free Length: 99 min Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC) Main Audio: 2.0 English Mono DTS-HD Master Audio (24bit, 48kHz) Alternate Audio: 2.0 French Mono DTS (24bit, 48 kHz) Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish Ratio: 1.85:1 Notes: This titl read more

Blu-ray Review: Shadow of a Doubt

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jan 24, 2014

Distributor: Universal Studios Release Date: 04/Jun/2013 Region: Region Free Length: 01:47:49 Video: 1080P (VC-1, 23.976fps) Main Audio: English Mono DTS-HD Master Audio (24bit, 48 kHz) Alternate Audio: 2.0 French Mono DTS (24bit, 48 kHz, 768 Kbps) Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish Ratio: 1.33:1 (14 read more

Blu-ray Review: The Lady Vanishes – The Criterion Collection

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jan 17, 2014

(Spine #3) Distributor: Criterion Collection (USA) Release Date: 06/Dec/2011 Region: Region A Length: 01:20:59 Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC, 23.976fps, 26.4GB) Main Audio: English Mono (PCM 1.0, 48kHz, 1152kbps) Subtitles: English Ratio: 1.34:1 Bitrate: 35Mbps Notes: This release is also available in read more

Blu-ray Review: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jan 10, 2014

Distributor: Universal Studios Release Date: 06/Aug/2013 Region: Region Free Length: 02:00:18 Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC, 23.976fps) Main Audio: 2.0 English DTS-HD (24bit, 48 kHz) Alternate Audio: 2.0 French DTS (24bit, 48 kHz, 448 Kbps) Subtitles: English & Spanish Ratio: 1.85:1 Bitrate: 32 Mb read more

Blu-ray Review: Spellbound

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Jan 3, 2014

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment / 20th Century Fox Release Date: 24/Jan/2012 Region: Region Free Length: 118 min Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC, 37.87 Mbps) Main Audio: English Mono DTS-HD Master Audio (48kHz, 24-bit) Subtitles: English Ratio: 1.37:1 Bitrate: 37.87 Mbps Notes: This title is also a read more

Blu-ray Review: Rebecca

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Dec 19, 2013

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment / 20th Century Fox Release Date: 24/Jan/2012 Region: Region Free Length: 131 min Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC, 37.39 Mbps) Main Audio: 2.0 English DTS-HD Master Audio (48 kHz, 24-bit) Subtitles: English SDH Ratio: 1.37:1 Bitrate: 37.39 Mbps Notes: This title is als read more

Offbeat Blu-ray Review: Hitchcock

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Nov 22, 2013

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Release Date: 12/March/2013 Region: A Length: 01:38:20 Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC, 32 Mbps) Main Audio: 5.1 English DTS-HD Master Audio Alternate Audio: 5.1 French Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish Dolby Digital Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish Ratio: 2.40:1 Notes: Includes a DV read more

Blu-ray Review: Strangers on a Train

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Nov 16, 2013

Distributor: Warner Brothers Release Date: 09/Oct/2012 Region: Region Free Length: 01:40:49 Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC, 29.91 Mpbs) Main Audio: 1.0 English Mono DTS-HD Master Audio (48 kHz, 768 Kbps, 24-bit) Alternate Audio: French Dolby Digital Mono German Dolby Digital Mono Italian Dolby Digital M read more

Offbeat Blu-ray Review: Taxi Driver

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Nov 14, 2013

“We looked at Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man for the moves when Henry Fonda goes into the insurance office and the shifting points of view of the people behind the counter. That was the kind of paranoia that I wanted to employ.” -Martin Scorsese Alfred Hitchcock’s influence is qui read more

DVD Review: Bon Voyage and Aventure Malgache

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Nov 8, 2013

Distributor: Milestone Films Release Date: 18/May/2010 Region:1 Length: 57 min Video: NTSC, SD Main Audio: French Subtitles: English (hard coded) Ratio: 1.33:1 Notes: These shorts are not currently released on Blu-ray in North America. They are currently only available on DVD and this disc is the o read more

Offbeat Blu-ray Review: Halloween: 35th Anniversary Edition

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Nov 3, 2013

“I guess the original slasher film was Psycho. That was the film that all of these things are kind of based on… Psycho was the big daddy of them all. And it had a literal slashing scene in it! The famous shower scene…” -John Carpenter It is evident from watching Halloween tha read more

Offbeat Blu-ray Review: The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition (3 Disk Set)

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Nov 1, 2013

“The director that influenced me and almost everyone else is Alfred Hitchcock because he basically invented suspense for the cinema.” -William Friedkin “There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.” -Alfred Hitchcock In 1965, Friedkin directed an episode of T read more
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