To dress a thief
Hitchcock never falls far out of fashion, as the bounty of special-edition DVDs released this week and next attest. The director's heroes were paragons of 20th-century taste, wearing ties to work and tails to dinner, and relaxing into casualwear only when out on the Riviera (see Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief) or out of their minds (Anthony Perkins in Psycho). New versions of Vertigo, Rear Window, and Psycho are out today, chockablock with extras—contemporary newsreel footage on Psycho's release and the original shower scene storyboards among them. Any and all are excuse enough to revisit a world where men looked like men—and, occasionally, killed one another.
Vertigo, Rear Window, and Psycho $19.99 each, available at amazon.com
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1:11:46 PM on
10/08/08
Hitchcock is absolutely timeless and probably the most influential filmmaker ever. He's like the velvet underground.
No Country For Old Men at last year's Oscars was like a tribute to the best of Hitch: http://fiturl.com/0k4