A film festival of world renowned filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock will be held at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Kynsey Terrace, Colombo 8 from February 22 to 27.
Six of masterpieces of the ‘master of suspense’ will be screened at 3 pm and 5.30 pm and the films and films will be introduced by Michael Hardy, PhD candidate, Department of English, Rutgers University on the opening day, Febraury 22 for the 3.30 pm and 5.30 pm shows.
The festival showcases ‘The Man Who knew too much’ on Feb 22, ‘Notorious’ on February 23, ‘Rear Window’ on Feb 24, ‘The Birds’ on Feb 25, ‘Frenzy’ on Feb 26 and ‘Vertigo’ on Feb 27.
‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’ (1934), a commercial and critical success, established a favorite pattern: an investigation of family relationships within a suspenseful story.
‘Notorious’ (1946), Hitchcock’s another masterpiece on one of his famous themes, the feminine sacrifice-of-identity. The film revolves around a perverse love story about an FBI agent who must send the woman he loves into the arms of a Nazi in order to uncover an espionage ring.
‘Rear Window’ (1954) made viewers voyeurs, then had them pay for their pleasure. In its story of a photographer who happens to witness a murder, Hitchcock provocatively probed the relationship between the watcher and the watched, involving, by extension, the viewer of the film. ‘The Birds’ (1963) presented evil as an environmental fact of life.
Produced in 1972 ‘Frenzy’ tells a tale much more in the Hitchcock vein, about an innocent man suspected of being a serial killer.
‘Vertigo’ is a 1958 American psychological thriller based on a novel by Boileau-Narcejac. In the film, a retired police detective who has acrophobia is hired as a private investigator to follow the wife of an acquaintance and uncover the mystery of her peculiar behavior. |
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