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TRIPLE HITCH!!!

You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room.

Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast, Rebecca McCallum as she makes a special announcement!

Talking Hitchcock is back on tour with three very exciting events taking place at Mockingbird Cinema Birmingham in the next few months!

THE BIRDS

Intro Talk+ Film + Q and A

Sat 19th October, 5:30pm at Mockingbird Cinema Birmingham

Tickets-Mockingbird Cinema | Talking Hitchcock Podcast Presents - The Birds

HITCHCOCK PRESENTS

Intro talk + 3 Episode screening as part of Square Eyes TV Festival

Sat 2nd November, 4pm at Mockingbird Cinema Birmingham

Tickets- Mockingbird Cinema | Talking Hitchcock Podcast Presents - Alfred Hitchcock Presents

NORTH BY NORTWEST 65th Anniversary screening in 4k

Into talk + Film + Q and A

Sat 29th November, 5pm at Mockingbird Cinema Birmingham

TICKETS ON SALE SOON!

For more about the Square Eyes TV Festival and to see their full line up please visit:

Square Eyes TV Festival | Midlands Arts Centre (macbirmingham.co.uk)

To find out more about Mockingbird and to view their full listings visit Mockingbird Cinema | Home

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Love and duty, consent and control, Miami and Rio!

Make sure you step carefully, quietly and unseen into the wine cellar for this feature length episode of Talking Hitchcock where amongst other things, my special guest and I discuss modes of identification, daddy issues and that kiss! Keep tight hold of that key as you are invited to join us for a deep dive of what might be best described as 'a film of faces.'

Sit as a silhouette figure in the shadows but be careful with that after dinner coffee as we are about to embark upon an exploration of a true Hitchcock masterpiece.

In this epic episode, I am joined by Assistant Professor, film lecturer and author of multiple books-Ali Taylor! There was so much to be said about Notorious that we had to meet three times and I could not have wished for a more wonderful guest.

Find Talking Hitchcock on X @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on talkinghitchpod@gmail.com

You can find Ali and her work here:

X: @preferenepas

Instagram: @acephalica

Find Rebecca and her work on X and Instagram @PendlePumpkin

References:

Notorious (1946) -Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock's Films Revisited-Robin Wood

Hitchcock Humour Tone and Suspense-Susan Smith

The Women Who Knew Too Much-Professor Tania Modleski

Hitchcock and Selznick-The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O Selznick in Hollywood-Leonard J.Leff

Ingrid Bergman My Story-Ingrid Bergman and Alan Burgess

Edith Head's Hollywood-Edith Head

Hitchcock's Heroines-Caroline Young

Alfred Hitchcock-A Life in Darkness and Light-Patrick McGilligan

Cary Grant-The Making of a Hollywood Legend-Mark Glancy

The Object and the Face, Notorious, Bergman and the Close Up-Joe McElhaney

Reframing Hitchcock-Selected Essays from the Hitchcock Annual-edited by Sidney Gottlieb and Christopher Brookhouse

The Hitchcock Murders-Peter Conrad

The Making of Hitchcock's Notorious

Notorious (1946) Hitchcock The Making of

John Bailey on Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

Picture Post (16 Feb 1946) -Ingrid Bergman: she's making a film with Producer Hitchcock

Ingrid Bergman Notorious-Her Classy 1940s Fashion-Classic Critics Corner-Vintage 1940S, 1950s, 1960s

A Woman of that Sort-Hitchcock's Notorious and the Feast of St Alicia-The Spool

The Ragged End of Nowhere-Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946) Senses of Cinema

Inside, Around and About Notorious-Filmtidsskrift

How Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant Shot Hitchcock's Notorious-Vulture.com

Notorious (1946)-The Blonde at the Film

Notorious: Hitchcock's Mature and Intricate Espionage Masterpiece-Cinephilia and Beyond

The Essential Hitchcock with Douglas Cunningham (Context Podcast)

You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast, Rebecca McCallum with special guest film journalist, producer and presenter and creator and host of Evolution of Horror Podcast-Mike Muncer.

Hitchcock and horror have always gone hand in hand-his fascination with death, murder and the repressed spans across his career from 1927’s The Lodger, a film based serial killer-Jack the Ripper, to the gothic notes of 1940’s Rebecca.

Elsewhere, we can find traces of the macabre in the Nietzchen theories at work in 1948s Rope and nihilism and brutality in the creature attacks of 1963’s The Birds.

In this episode, Mike and I discuss all things Hitchcock and Horror-from the gothic and the uncanny, to how the director uses space and knowledge to evoke suspense and fear.

We also have a fun time sharing our favourite villains, top five horror moments in Hitchcock and Mike rates listeners scary moments on the Hitch-o-meter of horror!

So, join us in the vast hallways of Manderlay, in the cosy and creepy parlour of the Bates motel and in the living room of a Manhattan apartment for a macabre buffet as we take a dizzyingly wonderful and dangerous carousel ride into the world of Hitchcock and Horror.

Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on talkinghitchpod@gmail.com

You can find Mike on the following platforms        Twitter @TheMovieMike Instagram: @mikemuncer

And you can find Evolution of Horror here:

Twitter @EvolutionPod Instagram: @evolutionofhorror Website: evolutionofhorror.com

Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin

Read Rebecca's Hitchcock's Women series with Moving Pictures Film Club here: ⁠⁠Hitchcock’s Women movingpicturesfilmclub.com)⁠

You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast, Rebecca McCallum with special guest writer, podcaster and founder/Editor in Chief of Moving Pictures Film Club -Tim Coleman.

In this episode, I had a truly memorable and enlightening conversation with my special guest and we got so carried away in our Merry Widow Waltz that we had to record this in two parts!

So, join us for a drink at the Till Two Bar as we discuss the disruption of the American family, Hitchcock’s identification with those he positions as heroic and villainous and whether a tune can really jump from one person’s head to another and as we peel back the layers of 1943’s magnificent Shadow of a Doubt.

Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on talkinghitchpod@gmail.com

You can find Moving Pictures Film Club on the following platforms -Twitter @MovingPicsClub and Instagram: @movingpicsclub    Website: movingpicturesfilmclub.com

And you can find Tim Coleman here: Twitter @fatscoleman and Instagram: @fats_coleman

Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin

Read Rebecca's Hitchcock's Women series with Moving Pictures Film Club here: ⁠⁠Hitchcock’sWomen (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)⁠

References:

• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• Bureau of Motion Pictures and a Manual for the Motion Pictures Industry (June 1942)
• Hitchcock and Truffaut (Interviews)
• Don’t Understand, My Darling-The Girl Grows Up in Shadow of a Doubt’ (Murray Pomerance)
• Ideology, Genre, Auteur: Shadow of a Doubt in Hitchcock’s Films Revisited- (Robin Wood)
• Shadow of a Doubt (Diane Negra)
• The Women Who Knew Too Much (Tania Modleski)

You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room for post film drinks! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast, Rebecca McCallum with special guest film maker, writer, founder and editor of the Alfred Hitchcock Geek Blog and the Hitchcockian Quarterly and President of Hitch Con-Joel Gunz.

Joel and I discuss the origins of the event, what to expect this year and I get his thoughts on many aspects of Hitchcock!

Come and join us at Hitch Con happening online and in person at Mercy University on 7th and 8th October! I’ll be presenting at Hitch Con in a talk entitled Rooting for Rupert-How Hitchcock Complicates our Responses to the Hero/Anti-Hero of 1948s Rope?

Visit hitchcon.org. to read the full line up including details of all talks and speakers, evening screenings of films and post-film discussions. And I’ve got a special discount code for you to use and get 25 percent off your tickets. Simply apply the code TALKHITCH25 at the checkout and get 25 percent off your purchase.

Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on talkinghitchpod@gmail.com

You can find Joel Gunz on the following platforms:

Twitter @JoelGunz

Instagram: @alfredhitchcockgeek

Facebook: Alfred Hitchcock Geek

Alfred Hitchcock Geek: www.alfredhitchcockgeek.com

Hitch Con: www.hitchcon.org  

Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin

Read Rebecca's Hitchcock's Women series with Moving Pictures Film Club here: ⁠⁠Hitchcock’s Women (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)⁠

You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast, Rebecca McCallum with special guest film scholar, artist and educator Beth Bullock as they take some bad advice from a friend whilst saunering at the Beefeater Club and travel from New York to Lake Placid to discuss the screwball comedy MR AND MRS SMITH (1941).

I was delighted to be joined by such a special guest who is the absolute expert and go-to voice when it comes to this film. In what might be the biggest deep dive ever on the film to date, we cover Hitchcock’s relationship with the incredible Carole Lombard and theorise on what this film tells us about the art of playing, gender roles in marriage and did I mention, the Freudian slit?  

So, let the games begin as we bend the rules, take some bad advice from a friend whilst saunering at the Beefeater club and travel from Manhattan to Lake Placid as we press the doorbell of Mr and Mrs Smith!

Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on talkinghitchpod@gmail.com

Beth is an alumna of the University of Chicago's Cinema and Media Studies Program. She teaches art history, cinema and humanities courses at the City Colleges of Chicago and film studies at Dominican University. She is at work on a chapter tenatively titled 'More Blessed to Give: Trackign the Reception of Alfred Hitchcock's Mr and Mrs Smith (1941)' to be published in a forthcoming Hitchcock anthology. As a freelance photographer, her work as been displayed and published locally around Chicago. She serves on the advisory board of "HitchCon" and has spoken at its yearly conferences.

You can find Beth Bullock on the following platforms:

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/blbullock77

Twitter @bbullock77

Instagram: @bbullock

Visit her website: crackingacademic.wordpress.com 

Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin

Read Rebecca's Hitchcock's Women series with Moving Pictures Film Club here: ⁠⁠Hitchcock’s Women (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)

You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast Rebecca McCallum with special guest - historian, author, scholar and leader in historic preservation and the study of American architecture -Christine Madrid French-to talk about her must-have book- The Architecture of Suspense-The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Christine discusses her fantastic book, how architecture impacts upon our psychology and what she terms ‘the mystical Hitchcock’ as well as sharing insights on key moments and themes relating to architecture in Hitchcock’s films. She also shares EXCLUSIVE!! NEVER DISCUSSED BEFORE FINDINGS in her research relating to the Uncanny Valley and two key locations in Vertigo (1958)-the Legion of Honour and the Empire Hotel. I conclude by putting some listener questions to Christine about architecture in Hitchcock’s films.

Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on talkinghitchpod@gmail.com

You can find Christine on Twitter @madridfrench and Instagram @madamhistorian and visit her website: madridfrench.com

You can purchase her book The Architecture of Suspense-The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock via Amazon or from the store on her website: madridfrench.com/store  

Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin

Read Rebecca's Hitchcock's Women series with Moving Pictures Film Club here: ⁠⁠Hitchcock’s Women (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)⁠

You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room for a special bonus episode!

Have you ever wondered what Alfred Hitchcock might have to say about his films if he were still with us today?

Mark Cousins, the award-winning filmmaker behind The Story of Film: An Odyssey, The Eyes of Orson Welles and The Story of Film: A New Generation tackles the question of how Hitchcock’s vast body of work and legacy holds up in today’s society as well as looking at the auteur with a new and radical approach-through the use of his own voice.

Yes that’s right, as Hitchcock rewatches his films, we are taken on an odyssey through his career-including his silent films, his work in the 50s and 60s and his later works in the most playful and revealing of ways in Mark’s new documentary My Name is Alfred Hitchcock.

Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast Rebecca McCallum as she interviews the director and writer to discuss his new documentary MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK.

MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK is in cinemas and on demand from 21st July and you can visit the website www.alfred-hitchcock.film for more information.

Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on talkinghitchpod@gmail.com

Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin

You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room for a bonus episode marking the beginning of a new series entitled Hitch Takes!

Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast Rebecca McCallum as she explores the role and readings of Midge in Vertigo. Listen to Rebecca analyse each of Midge scenes, comparing and contrasting her with Madeline and Judy, and examining her relationship with Scottie.

This is the first Hitch Take episode so please get in touch and let me know what you think!  

Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on talkinghitchpod@gmail.com

Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin

References

Vertigo (1958)       

Vertigo BFI Classics -Charles Barr

Fatal Resemblances: Cross Mapping Hitchcock’s Vertigo with Nabokov’s Lolita, (Barbara Straumann) in Haunted by Vertigo Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Then and Now (Edited by Sidney Gottlieb and Donal Martin)

The Women Who Knew Too Much (Tania Modleski)

Vertigo (1958), Alternate Ending - YouTube

‘The Look’, Narrativity and the Female Spectator in Vertigo. (Karen Hollinger)

The Past, The Present And The Perverse: VERTIGO As A Possession Film - Fangoria

HITCHCOCK’S WOMEN: Constructing and Resurrecting the Ideal Woman – A Portrait of Judy Barton in VERTIGO (1958) – PART I (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)

HITCHCOCK’S WOMEN: Constructing and Resurrecting the Ideal Woman – A Portrait of Judy Barton in VERTIGO (1958) – PART II (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)

You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast Rebecca McCallum with special guest -New York Playwright and Scholar Elisabeth Karlin as they prepare to travel from Marrakesh all the way to London to analyse and dissect Hitchcock’s only remake- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956).  Listen to find out which critical study of Hitchcock Elisabeth persuaded her father to publish which she was also involved in proof reading and amongst other things we discuss-marriage, gender, what is in a name, that troubling sedation scene and redefining the Hitchcock Blonde.

Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on talkinghitchpod@gmail.com

Elisabeth is a playwright in New York City who also writes about film. Her work on Hitchcock includes being a frequent contributor to the Alfred Hitchcock Geek Blog and her essay on the heroines of Hitchcock appears in the most recent Hitchcock Annual. She serves on the advisory board of "HitchCon" and has spoken at its yearly conferences. You can find her on Twitter @ElisabethKarlin and Instagram @elisbath.karlin

Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin

Read Rebecca's Hitchcock's Women series with Moving Pictures Film Club here: ⁠⁠Hitchcock’sWomen (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)⁠

References

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)    

Guillermo del Toro on The Man Who Knew Too Much-Criterion Collection Guillermo del Toro on The Man Who Knew Too Much - YouTube

Hitchcock’s Heroines (Caroline Young)

  Hitchcock Revisited (Robin Wood)

The Making of The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much BFI Classic (Murray Pomerance)

Interview: Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut (1962)

Beyond the Blond the Dynamic Heroines of Hitchcock (Elisabeth Karlin)

Breaking Silence Through Song-Jo McKenna in The Man Who Knew Too Much (Rebecca McCallum)

The Man Who Knew Too Much-The Thriller Master’s Only Remake (Cinephilia and Beyond) ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’: The Thriller Master’s Only Remake • Cinephilia & Beyond (cinephiliabeyond.org)