Will Strong Recommends: A Talk With Hitchcock

This one is a bit different.  "A Talk with Hitchcock" is nothing more than both halves of a two-part interview with Alfred Hitchcock that was given in 1963 (as near as I can tell) for a Canadian television program called "Telescope."

The best part of the interview involves Hitch explaining his theory on film editing.  He thinks the word "cutting" is completely inappropriate.  Cutting implies separating and disjoining things.  He likes the term montage or assembly better as they imply construction.  He then takes scenes from his movies and explains exactly why he put them together this way.  Good stuff.  If you have any interest in Hitchcock or the mechanics of how film is put together then this is a must see.  

This DVD is not easy to find.  It's not even on IMDB which has just about everything else.  I found it on Netflix.  It's a good rental.  (The DVD was published in 1994 by Image Entertainment.)

Anybody interested in visual storytelling could benefit from this DVD.  Good luck finding it.

100 Picture Challenge, Day 1: Introduction

Good Evening.

The best part of any episode of Alfred Hitchcock presents is always the bits on the front and back ends with Alfred himself talking about murder in the most dry tones imaginable.  My favorite episode involves a husband poisoning his friend who he thought was sleeping with his wife.  The husband finds out that he was wrong just as the friend dies.  Cut to Hitchcock who says, "And they all lived happily ever after."

Hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahaha.  Ha.