« Les 39 Marches », movie d’Alfred Hitchcock (1935). GAUMONT-BRITISH PICTURE CORPORATION
THE MORNING LIST
1is January, Great Britain and as soon as again turn out to be an island. No panic for moviegoers! Fortunately, we aren’t carried out with British cinema. Bold, creative, impactful, the films will proceed to cross the Channel at will. Here are a number of examples obtainable on video platforms.
“The 39 Steps”: delivery of the Hitchcock hero
Before his Hollywood profession, Sir Alfred Hitchcock bequeathed to English cinema a few of his most interesting jewels. Of which these 39 Marches, his first masterpiece, the matrix of his nice successes to come: a spy story operating at excessive velocity within the mists of the Scottish moor, absolutely reconstructed within the studio. Richard Hannay, a Canadian on a spree, finds himself topic to a switch of guilt: accused of against the law he didn’t commit, he’s chased by a mysterious prison group that desires his pores and skin, launched on the path of ‘a defense secret. His run across the country, like Cary Grant’s later in Death on the hunt, consists above all in probing the vertigo of a replaceable identification, that of contemporary man. How to go for another person when all the pieces accuses you and designates you?
The relaxation is only a jostling of hectic adventures, which every time symbolize a brand new staging problem. Often, the easiest way for Richard to escape basic suspicion isn’t to be discreet, however quite the opposite to seem in full gentle, as throughout that good scene the place he arrives in the course of a political assembly and has to maintain a speech in entrance of an entire meeting. The Hitchcockian hero is by this yardstick: a void that fiction is accountable for filling. So is it not not possible to see The 39 Steps, shock bag stuffed to the brim, tinged with humor and eroticism, like a kind of little treatise on performing: to survive in a torn world, you’ve to understand how to play, put on a masks, not be oneself. Mathieu macheret
“The 39 Steps”, movie by Alfred Hitchcock (1935). With Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Godfrey Tearle, Lucie Mannheim (1 h 26). On LaCinetek.
“The Hound of the Baskervilles”: Sherlock Holmes metaphysician
English Gothic horror cinema exploded commercially within the late 1950s with the success of films produced by the Hammer Film Productions firm which resuscitated vampires, werewolves, mummies and Frankenstein creatures. Within this motion imposed himself an creator who constructed a private work going past the easy calls for of the chills of the Saturday evening spectator: Terence Fisher. His creatures, from the Gothic bestiary, have been as a lot figures of worry because the symbols of an evil creativeness opposing the prescriptions of contemporary cause. Most of his films set their motion in fictitious elements of Central Europe.
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