Showing posts with label Alfred Hitchcock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alfred Hitchcock. Show all posts

Monday 16 February 2015

Dial M for Murder (1954)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings 
and John Williams.



DVD bought in 2009
3D Blu-ray bought in 2015
101mins





3D Blu-ray





DVD extras -

Hitchcock and Dial M (22mins)
3D: A Brief History (7mins)
Theatrical trailer

Friday 13 February 2015

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman and Robert Walker.


2-disc Special Edition DVD bought in 2005
101mins







Preview and Final release versions of the film.
Audio commentary by Peter Bogdanovich, Joseph Stefano and others
"Alfred Hitchcock's Historical Meeting" (Vintage Newsreel
"Strangers On A Train: A Hitchcock Classic" documentary
"Strangers On A Train: An Appreciation By M. Night Shyamalan" featurette
"Strangers On A Train: The Victim's P.O.V." featurette
"The Hitchcocks On Hitch" featurette
Theatrical trailer

Tuesday 10 February 2015

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Henry Travers and Macdonald Carey.


Blu-ray bought in 2014
107m 50s






Beyond Doubt:: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
Production Drawings
Production Photographs
Theatrical Trailer

Saboteur (1942)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger and Norman Lloyd.


Blu-ray bought in 2014
108m 48s






'Saboteur': A Closer Look
Production Photographs
Storyboards: The Statue of Liberty Sequence
Alfred Hitchcock's Sketches
Theatrical Trailer

Monday 9 February 2015

Rebecca (1940)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders and Judith Anderson.


Criterion 2-disc DVD bought in 2004
130mins







• Commentary by film scholar Leonard J. Leff, author of Hitchcock and Selznick: The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick in Hollywood
• Isolated music and effects track
• Rare screen, hair, makeup, and costume tests
• Footage from the 1940 Annual Academy Awards ceremony
• Hundreds of behind-the-scenes photos
• Illustrated essay on Daphne du Maurier
• Hitchcock on Rebecca
• Phone interviews with star Joan Fontaine and Dame Judith Anderson from 1986
• Hitchcock's casting notes
• Reissue trailer
• Production correspondence and casting notes
• 1939 test screening questionnaire
• Complete broadcast of the 1938 Campbell Playhouse radio adaptation
• 1941 Lux Radio Theatre broadcast
• 1950 Lux Radio Theatre broadcast
• 22-page booklet

Saturday 7 February 2015

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Pual Lukas and Dame May Whitty.


2-disc Criterion DVD bought in 2008
Blu-ray bought in 2015
97mins




DVD






Criterion DVD extras -

Audio commentary by film historian Bruce Eder
Crook's Tour (1941) feature length movie starring Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne (80mins)
Excerpts from François Truffaut's 1962 interview with Alfred Hitchcock (10mins)
Mystery Train - video essay (33mins)
Behind-the-Scenes photos and Promotional Art
Liner notes booklet with essays by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and Hitchcock scholar Charles Barr