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Next Screening:
Hitchcock certainly had a, oh, let's call it a "tendency", to have beautiful blonde women star in his films. Here are four of his most well known films made with four of his most well known blonde stars.
On Thursday, September 30th, we will be presenting Rear Window, starring Grace Kelly. This tense, claustrophobic thriller is one of Hitch's best! And the comic input of the great Thelma Ritter is not to be missed. Oh, we shouldn't forget to mention that James Stewart (one of the brunettes Hitchcock seemed to like working with) appears in this film as well.
On Friday, October 1st, there will be a double-bill of North By Northwest and Notorious. North By Northwest is as agoraphobic as Rear Window is claustrophobic, with wonderful chase scenes in an open field with a crop-duster, and a climatic scene on Lincoln's face on Mt. Rushmore. Eva Marie Saint stars in this movie about a case of mistaken identity. (The identity belongs to Cary Grant, another brunette.)
Notorious stars one of the greatest blondes of all time, Ingrid Bergman. (Opinion is divided over whether or not Bergman was indeed a blonde, but our extensive and exhaustive research has born out this conclusion). Here she plays a woman of somewhat loose virtue who is recruited by Cary Grant to be a spy against Claude Raines's (Yet another brunette, playing a mama's boy second only to Norman Bates) Nazi stooge. Saturday, October 2nd brings Vertigo, considered to be up there with Rear Window in Hitchcock's oeuvre. This is one of the all-time great movies about obsession, love, and fear, and how they come together. Our blonde here is the haunting Kim Novak. Finally we submit for your approval The Trouble With Harry. This is a gentle comedy with our one redhead of the series: a young Shirley MacLean in her first film role, playing the unwed mother of Jerry "The Beaver" Mathers. What is the trouble with Harry? Well, the trouble with Harry is that he's dead. And that's just the start of the movie! Also in this film are John Forsythe (the voice of Charlie on "Charlie's Angels") and Edmund Gwynne, best-known for his portrayal of Kris Kringle in "Miracle on 34th St." What has all of us at the LFF especially excited this year is our presentation of short films by local filmmakers. We are proud to have this opportunity to present you with these works from our own community, and we hope that you will join us and share in supporting this important group of artists. We are also fortunate enough to have most of the directors in attendance at the screening of their films. What a wonderful chance to interact with these filmmakers directly. And who knows? You could end up watching a short subject by the next Hitchcock?
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