Alfred Hitchcock may have been \u201cthe Master of Suspense,\u201d but his greatest mystery was himself.\u00a0 Film critic and Hitchcock scholar Stephen Whitty reveals some of the director\u2019s secrets in \u201cHitchcock\u2019s Blondes,\u201d a four-part series that looks at the filmmaker\u2019s art through his greatest obsession and his four finest leading ladies: Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, Janet Leigh and Tippi Hedren. Behind-the-scenes stories and post-film discussions provide unique insights into the work.<\/p>\n
Sundays with Hitchcock are FREE and open to the general public.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The screenings and post film discussions will be held from 2 PM – 5 PM<\/strong><\/em> in the School of Communication and Media’s new 197-seat Presentation Hall.<\/strong><\/p>\n Sunday, October 29<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cPsycho\u201d (1960)<\/strong><\/p>\n Hailed as the first of the \u201cslasher\u201d films, this brilliant thriller is much, much more \u2014 including a bleak, blackly comic commentary on sex, Mom and the American psyche. With Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins.<\/a><\/p>\n Sunday, November 5<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cThe Birds\u201d (1963)<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s an avian uprising \u2013 but why? Hitchcock\u2019s refusal to answer that question \u2013 or even provide a resolution \u2013 makes this the edgiest and most experimental of his films. With Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor.<\/p>\n Sunday, November 12<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cRear Window\u201d (1954)<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the director\u2019s most purely entertaining movies is also a devastating study of voyeurism and urban anonymity (as well as a graduate-level course in film editing). With James Stewart, Grace Kelly.<\/p>\n Sunday, November 19<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cVertigo\u201d (1958)<\/strong><\/p>\n More personal than perhaps its creator even knew, this spiraling mystery details a man\u2019s urge to create the perfect, obedient object of his desire \u2013 and her own desire to break free. With James Stewart, Kim Novak.<\/p>\n An award-winning writer and two-time former chair of the New York Film Critics Circle,\u00a0Stephen Whitty<\/strong>\u00a0publishes in the New York Daily News, The Star-Ledger and in many other newspapers, national magazines and websites. He has his BFA from NYU\u2019s Tisch School of the arts and has taught and lectured at NYU, Rutgers, Baruch, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of the Moving Image and the New York Public Library. A regular guest on television and radio, and a frequent juror at film festivals, Whitty\u2019s most recent book is\u00a0The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alfred Hitchcock may have been \u201cthe Master of Suspense,\u201d but his greatest mystery was himself.\u00a0 Film critic and Hitchcock scholar Stephen Whitty reveals some of the director\u2019s secrets in \u201cHitchcock\u2019s Blondes,\u201d a four-part series that looks at the filmmaker\u2019s art through his greatest obsession and his four finest leading ladies: Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, Janet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226,"parent":656,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-199","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/film-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/film-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/film-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/film-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/film-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/film-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/film-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199\/revisions\/866"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/film-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/film-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/film-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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