{"id":13426,"date":"2011-11-08T03:04:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T03:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13426"},"modified":"2011-11-08T03:11:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T03:11:22","slug":"hitchcock-masters-of-cinema-interview-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/08\/hitchcock-masters-of-cinema-interview-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitchcock Masters of Cinema Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Alfred-Hitchcock-Masters-of-Cinema-Interview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13427\" title=\"Alfred Hitchcock Masters of Cinema Interview\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Alfred-Hitchcock-Masters-of-Cinema-Interview.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interview with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Hitchcock\">Alfred Hitchcock<\/a><\/strong> around the time of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frenzy\">Frenzy<\/a> (1972) provides a useful overview of his career.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this programme particularly interesting is that the first part of the interview is conducted by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pia_Lindstr%C3%B6m\">Pia Lindstr\u00f6m<\/a>, the daughter of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ingrid_Bergman\">Ingrid Bergman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note that when she asks about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spellbound_(1945_film)\">Spellbound<\/a> (1945) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Notorious_(1946_film)\">Notorious<\/a> (1946), she&#8217;s asking about films which starred her mother, which gives her questions an interesting subtext.<\/p>\n<p>They talk about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Working with actors<\/li>\n<li>The casting of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Themes_and_plot_devices_in_the_films_of_Alfred_Hitchcock#Blonde_women\">blonde women<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sexual &#8216;aberrations&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Notorious<\/li>\n<li>Why <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kitchen_Sink_Dramas\">kitchen sink dramas<\/a> never appealed to him<\/li>\n<li>Suspense in Spellbound<\/li>\n<li>Shooting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strangers_on_a_Train_(film)\">Strangers on a Train<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Handling fame and success<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/umfiwI-7I0M\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The second half of the programme is with critic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_K._Everson\">William Everson<\/a> and he asks Hitchcock about the earlier part of his career, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hitchcock&#8217;s early career in Germany<\/li>\n<li>Murnau&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Last_Laugh\">The Last Laugh<\/a> (1924)<\/li>\n<li>The influence of German cinema on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Lodger:_A_Story_of_the_London_Fog\">The Lodger<\/a> (1927)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Man_Who_Knew_Too_Much_(1934_film)\">The Man Who Knew Too Much<\/a> (1934) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Man_Who_Knew_Too_Much_(1956_film)\">the 1956 remake<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Shooting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Birds_(film)\">The Birds<\/a> (1963)<\/li>\n<li>The cross cutting in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Number_Seventeen\">Number Seventeen<\/a> (1932)<\/li>\n<li>His move to Hollywood<\/li>\n<li>How he nearly made a film about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Titanic\">Titanic<\/a><\/li>\n<li>What film schools should teach<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitchcockwiki.com\/wiki\/Main_Page\">The Hitchcock Wiki<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/09\/28\/the-evolution-of-the-hitchcock-trailer\/\">The Evolution of the Hitchcock trailer<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; More on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pia_Lindstr%C3%B6m\">Pia Lindstr\u00f6m<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_K._Everson\">William Everson<\/a> at Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with Alfred Hitchcock around the time of Frenzy (1972) provides a useful overview of his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}