Hitchcock, Jacobean Artist 🎞️🎭📖

CHARADE ('63) has everything you'd except from a Hitchcock film except the famous director's name above the credits. That's because this is a Stanley Donen film that works as both homage and a send-up of Hitchcock's past collaborations with Cary Grant. See it tonight at 8pm ET.

Hitchcock had a profound understanding of the human psyche. He knew that the imagination was far more powerful than any image, and this knowledge was key to his remarkable ability to manipulate his audience. The audience used their imagination to ‘fill the gaps’.

audrey hepburn’s screen test for “roman holiday” (1953), where she was asked to talk about her life during world war II!

Jane Fonda will receive the Life Achievement Award at the 2025 SAG Awards.

On this day, 44 years ago, David Lynch's "The Elephant Man" (1980) was released in the USA.

“My private person, the real me, is a very shy person, not at all the public impression.” Alfred Hitchcock.

Purified before death 💧 I rewatched ALIEN (1979) a few nights ago & was struck at how Brett's final moments mirror those of Marion Crane in Psycho (1960)