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“A once in a lifetime project”– Bob O’Neil on restoring and revising “Touch...
Bob O’Neil was the head of film preservation and restoration at Universal in 1988. His job was to evaluate to all the materials Universal held in its film library and oversee the repair and restoration...
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Keeping Score – Scary Music: the Sequel
For last Halloween, I offered a list of 13 movie scores that I believe stand out as landmarks in the in the history of scary movie music. I got some comments from a few readers who were disappointed...
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Death and the Detective: Vertigo Revisited
Once upon a time an 11-year-old boy went to see the new Hitchcock movie. He came home crying, and didn’t understand why. Fifty-two years later, he thinks he knows. Scotty Ferguson, recovering from the...
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Oscars oversights
Everybody gets to gripe about the Academy Awards. Sometimes it’s a matter of “How could you nominate that mess for anything but oblivion?” Sometimes it’s disbelief at a great performance or great...
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Of Staircases and Potato Trucks: Fear and Fatness and Alfred Hitchcock
[Originally published in Movietone News 25, September 1973] In film criticism, as in any form of arts criticism, the Biographical Fallacy is to be scrupulously avoided. But in the case of Alfred...
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Blu-ray: ‘Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Collection’
Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Collection (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, Blu-ray) – The box set of 15 Alfred Hitchcock pictures made between 1942 and 1976 (featuring films from Paramount,...
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