The time has come! The time I have been waiting for decades for!
The time I might have been waiting for from the day I was born! It is
here! Alfred Hitchcock has come back into the realm of popular culture
with a vengeance!!!!
My
family got their first VCR for the Bears’ January 1986 Super Bowl.
Shortly thereafter, I discovered Hitchcock. Having died in 1980, six
years prior to my discovery of him, Hitchcock was no longer “in the
news,” so to speak. I watched most of his movies and tried my best to
find out everything I could about him, but most of the stuff I found was
from ages ago. Yes, the occasional article would be written, but for
the most part, Hitchcock was history!
History NO longer! There
are 3…count them 3…new movies or television shows dedicated to the life
and/or work of the Master of Suspense: Hitchcock, the feature film starring Anthony Hopkins as the director and Helen Mirren as his devoted wife, Alma; The Girl, an HBO movie starring Toby Jones as Hitchcock, about the making of The Birds; and Bates Motel, an A&E TV show starring Vera Farmiga as Mrs. Bates and Freddie Highmore as young Norman, about the early life of the Psycho family.
In
addition to that (as if that wasn’t enough!), many of Hitchcock’s films
are coming out on Blu-Ray and getting a lot of press, not to mention
the British Film Institute and their months-long celebration of all
things Hitchcock, to cap off their year-long “Rescue the Hitchcock 9”
fundraiser to help restore nine of Hitchcock’s early British silent works.
The event, appropriately titled The Genius of Hitchcock, was a full
retrospective of his works plus guests and lectures speaking about all
facets of Hitchcock.
So,
basically, I’m on cloud nine. Finally, FINALLY, the masses are
catching on to the brilliance and talent of Hitchcock. It’s about time!
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