Saturday Night Cinema: Downhill (1927)
Hitchcock’s fourth feature film, it introduced a theme that would recur in his future work, that of shared guilt, or the transference of guilt from one person to another.
Hitchcock’s fourth feature film, it introduced a theme that would recur in his future work, that of shared guilt, or the transference of guilt from one person to another.
The Islamic dictatorship of Saudi Arabia is lifting its 35-year ban on movie theaters. And while Western press appears to be celebrating it, the first thing that comes to my mind is that Hollywood’s pandering to Islam will become even worse than it is.
Lots of column inches and media plaudits for the Muslim teens who produced a “short film about Islamophobia.” Why aren’t these Muslim teen girls making a movie condemning the jihadic doctrines calling for supremacist holy war? Why isn’t the Muslim community encouraging films exposing the Islamic texts and teachings inciting violence and hatred of non-Muslims?…
Tonight’s feature is the classic film, “M”. This film is nothing less than a masterpiece. It is a highly structured and stylized film about a serial killer. It created the serial killer genre, which includes such entries as Psycho and Silence of the Lambs. Alfred Hitchcock (the director of Psycho) was a disciple of Lang,…