DIRK’S FILM SCHOOL: SOUND
SEMINAR NOTES Good morning, Mr Edison, glad to see you back. Hope you like the KINETOPHONE. To show you the synchronisation, I will lift my hand to count to ten. […]
Tag Archives: Alfred Hitchcock
Dirk’s Five: Cut to the chase
“Cut to the chase,” is one of those Hollywood phrases that have entered the everyday idiom. Before it was adopted by impatient middle-managers, its an expression that dates back to […]
DOM: Don’t Look Now (Roeg, UK, 1973)
Met a dwarf that was no good Dressed like little Red Riding Hood Bad habit taking life Calling card a six inch knife Ran off really fast Mumbled something `bout […]
ANDY: The Wages of Fear (Clouzot, France, 1953)
In 1974 William Friedkin, riding on the crest of a wave after the consecutive successes of critically-lauded THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971) and box office behemoth THE EXORCIST (1973), arranged himself […]
Starburst Memories: The Projection Room – Hitch Intros
Previously, Dirk got dewy eyed about The Projection Room, Bolton School Film Society, which was the original source of this website back in 1999, when anything seemed possible, as long […]
DOM: Psycho (Hitchcock, US, 1960)
“I saw a film today, oh boy!” I would have loved to have been able to talk about my favourite film “Vertigo”, but Derek Malcolm got their first and this […]
