More Than One Lesson

In this episode, Reed and Nathan discuss John McTiernan’s Predator.

In this episode, Tyler and Reed discuss the Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Infinity War.

In this episode, Reed and Nathan discuss Steven Spielberg’s Jaws.

In this minisode, Tyler and Reed discuss Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride.

In this episode, Reed and Nathan discuss Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope. 

In this episode, Reed and Nathan discuss Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

In this episode, Reed and Nathan discuss Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity.

Hitchcock called this the low point of his career. He later called Champagne his least favorite of his films, but maintained that this movie represented an odd sort of crossroads and not an entirely pleasant one. Rich and Strange had been a good film but a commercial failure. Number Seventeen had represented a sloppiness in both style and substance, as if crafted by a hopelessly amateur filmmaker. Then, came Waltzes from Vienna, a film so utterly removed both by narrative and genre from the remainder of Hitchcock’s work as to seem ridiculously anomalous.

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Hitchcock tackles another play, but this time, it’s a full-blown noir mystery thriller. Behind the scenes, the financial failure of Rich and Strange (aka East of Shanghai) had caused the production company to remove him from the project he really wanted to do and forced him to take on this one. As a result, his heart wasn’t in its creation and he later heavily derided it as one of his least favorable films (he called it a “disaster”).

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Hitchcock lightens things up this time with an entry that drifts away from the smaller, domestic dramas and from his adaptations of plays to present a far more comical story about the allure of wealth and opulence. The result is a rather pleasant farcical adventure that Hitchcock himself liked quite a bit, and which you are likely to enjoy as well.

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