Everything has a chance to go wrong with a movie long before the actors show up. The latest proof of this truth just
Taken from a bestselling novel by Daniel Mallory writing under the pseudonym A.J. Finn, âThe Woman in the Windowâ comes from director Joe Wright. Like all filmmakers he is fallible. He also has âAtonement,â the supple 2005 âPride & Prejudiceâ and âDarkest Hour,â for which Gary Oldman won an Oscar, on his resume.
The novel, about an agoraphobic psychologist who witnesses a murder in the Harlem brownstone across the street, has been adapted by Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts, who also takes a supporting role of the psychologistâs psychologist. As an actor Letts has become one of the great, steady satisfactions in modern movies, and here his job is to provoke questions by way of exposition: Is this character malevolent? Sincere? Privately amused? Lying like a rug?
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Alexander C Kafka
THE WASHINGTON POST – Locked down, scrutinising one another through windows and screens, suspicious of neighbours’ intentions, psychological soundness and political inclinations, we all live now in Alfred Hitchcock’s world.
The cultural historian and
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense.
While not essential to casual filmgoers, the study helpfully dissects, for Hitchcock obsessives, this most calculatingly self-conscious director’s methods and compulsions.
White’s shrewd, interlocking essays yield no new juicy gossip about the occasionally wayward and chronically manipulative director, but they draw from the huge trove of revelations by Donald Spoto, Patrick McGilligan and other biographers.
In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, it s the contradictions that made the man
Alexander C. Kafka, The Washington Post
April 14, 2021
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An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense
By Edward White
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Locked down, scrutinizing one another through windows and screens, suspicious of neighbors intentions, psychological soundness and political inclinations, we all live now in Alfred Hitchcock s world.
The cultural historian and Paris Review contributor Edward White brings home to us the film titan s enduring presence in The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense. While not essential to casual filmgoers, the study helpfully dissects, for Hitchcock obsessives, this most calculatingly self-conscious director s methods and compulsions.