The big Hitch: is the director a prisoner of his own virtuosity?
- Document source:
- Film Comment
- Publication date:
- March 1979 - April 1979
- Document type:
- article
- Number of pages:
- 4
- Source pagination:
- 26-29
- Document name subject:
- Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir, François Truffaut, Robert Bresson, and Janet Leigh
- Document contains:
- production co
- Related films:
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- Strangers on a train — Hitchcock, Alfred — United States — 1951
- Rear window — Hitchcock, Alfred — United States — 1954
- Vertigo — Hitchcock, Alfred — United States — 1958
- Psycho — Hitchcock, Alfred — United States — 1960
- Fahrenheit 451 — Truffaut, François — Great Britain — 1966
- Film country(ies):
- Great Britain and United States
- Film language(s):
- English
- Film production company:
- Anglo-Enterprise Film Productions, Paramount Pictures, Vineyard Films Ltd., and Warner Bros.
- Film genre(s):
- Adaptation, Feature, Mystery, Political, Romance, Science fiction, Slasher, and Thriller
- Film subject(s):
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- Apartment houses -- Drama
- Bradbury, Ray, 1920- . Fahrenheit 451 -- Film and video adaptations
- Censorship -- Drama
- City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Deception -- Drama
- Impostors and imposture -- California -- San Francisco -- Drama
- Intellectual freedom -- Drama
- Man-woman relationships -- California -- San Francisco -- Drama
- Memory -- Drama
- Motels -- Drama
- Mothers and sons -- Drama
- Murder -- California -- San Francisco -- Drama
- Murder -- Drama
- Murder -- Psychological aspects -- Drama
- Parricide -- United States -- Drama
- Photographers -- United States -- Drama
- Psychopaths -- Drama
- Reading -- Political aspects -- Drama
- Rich people -- Drama
- Tennis players -- Drama
- Theft -- Drama
- Totalitarianism -- Drama
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama
- Voyeurism -- Drama
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