An Eye for Hitchcock

Film scholar Murray Pomerance presents a series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, a master of the cinema. Two of the films, “North by Northwest” and “Vertigo”, are extraordinarily famous and have been seen, and misunderstood, countless times. Two others, “Marnie” and “Torn Curtain”, have been mostly disregarded by viewers and critics or considered to be colossal mistakes, while the remaining two, “Spellbound” and “I Confess”, have received almost no critical attention at all. This edition examines these movies under a bold new light. Pomerance takes us deep into the structure of Hitchcock's vision and his screen architecture, revealing key elements that have never been written about before. Pomerance also clearly reveals the link between Hitchcock's work and a wide range of thinkers and artists in other fields, thereby offering viewers of Hitchcock's films the rare opportunity to see them afresh and with new excitement.