by Film School | Mar 10, 2025 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #453 Topaz (1969) Does the word “topaz” mean anything to you? The Cold War rages on in the world, and Hitchcock delivers a political/spy thriller centered on the lead-up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, apparently even based on real events. Is...
by Film School | Feb 24, 2025 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #451 Torn Curtain (1966) How would you like to live behind what you call the Iron Curtain…? It’s the height of the cold war. Hitch swaps his nationless networks of mysterious criminals for a far more real-world one: East Germany and the...
by Film School | Feb 10, 2025 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #449 Marnie (1964) You, Freud. Me, Jane? Alfred takes on sex, lies, and money missing from the big safe at work. It’s half trippy para-psychology Spellbound, part neo-noirish femme fatale Vertigo, this time with a returning Tippi Hedron as the...
by Film School | Jan 20, 2025 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #447 The Birds (1963) It’s the end of the world! Hitch backs up the classic Psycho with another horror film, but this time it’s nature itself that’s out for humanity rather than one of our own. What would happen if all the birds in the...
by Film School | Jan 13, 2025 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #445 Psycho (1960) We all go a little mad sometimes… Welcome to the birth (debatedly) of the slasher film! Hitch might not have been the absolute FIRST to dive into the mind of a twisted serial killer, but he arguably is the most influential to...
by Film School | Dec 9, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #440 North By Northwest (1959) You gentlemen aren’t REALLY trying to kill my son, are you…? Might be Ira’s favorite Hitchcock. It’s the prototypical spy film, predates even James Bond, except that this spy is actually just a...
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