Category Archives: North by Northwest

Read instead…in print #43: Hitchcock & Herrmann, The Friendship and Film Scores that Changed Cinema

  Why would anyone consider that Hitchcock did the same type of film over and over again? This idea has always puzzled me, because you only have to listen all the different scores that Bernard Herrmann composed for Hitchcock’s films … Read More →

Posted by classiq in Film, North by Northwest, Read instead...in print | | Comments Off on Read instead…in print #43: Hitchcock & Herrmann, The Friendship and Film Scores that Changed Cinema

Read instead…in print #36. North by Northwest: The Man Who Had Too Much

  If we ever needed a reassurance about why we love cinema in general and Alfred Hitchcock in particular, then Hitchcock’s North by Northwest: The Man Who Had Too Much, by James Stratton, spells that out. North by Northwest “sparkles … Read More →

Posted by classiq in Books, Film, North by Northwest, Read instead...in print | | Comments Off on Read instead…in print #36. North by Northwest: The Man Who Had Too Much

Revisiting North by Northwest and Its Costumes

It’s easy to inhabit Alfred Hitchcock’s worlds. His films are thought out to the tiniest detail and you slip right in. Time stops and the rest of the world falls away. North by Northwest is one of those films I would watch (and I have watched) over and over again. “For his pictures are destined to circulate throughout the world,” Truffaut said. Throughout your mind, and throughout the decades, one might add. Read More →

Posted by classiq in Film, Film costume, North by Northwest | | Comments Off on Revisiting North by Northwest and Its Costumes