Re: A fantastic year for intelligent adult films
I'm not sure if Hitchcock was always a "master of suspense"; some of the suspense plots in his movies are a little weak or underwritten and you can see what's coming.
But I think he was truly a "master of set pieces." Sometimes an otherwise good movie seems lackluster just because it never really gets to a striking, memorable sequence.
Foreign Correspondent has some great set pieces, and it just came out on a Criterion release after being hard to find on DVD for a while:
http://www.avclub.com/review/criteri...-corres-201226
I'm not sure if Hitchcock was always a "master of suspense"; some of the suspense plots in his movies are a little weak or underwritten and you can see what's coming.
But I think he was truly a "master of set pieces." Sometimes an otherwise good movie seems lackluster just because it never really gets to a striking, memorable sequence.
Foreign Correspondent has some great set pieces, and it just came out on a Criterion release after being hard to find on DVD for a while:
http://www.avclub.com/review/criteri...-corres-201226
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