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22 The Genius of Hitchcock (continued) UNDER CAPRICORN MARNIE REAR WINDOW Under Capricorn THE TROUBLE Sun 14 & Mon 22 Oct WITH SEX Alfred Hitchcock • UK 1949 • 1h57m • 35mm • PG Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker. Set in 1830s Australia, with echoes of Rebecca, Suspicion and Notorious, this tells of the colonial governor’s nephew (Wilding) visiting his adored cousin (Bergman), only to find her an alcoholic at the mercy, he suspects, of her husband (Cotten), a nouveau riche with a brisk manner and murky history. Using (courtesy Jack Cardiff ) exquisite colour and long tracking shots, Hitch creates a treacherous world of unspoken, barely repressed passions, all-infecting guilt and destructive class divisions. The Trouble With Harry Mon 15 & Fri 19 Oct Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1955 • 1h40m • 35mm • PG DEAD FUNNY Cast: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock, Shirley MacLaine. The trouble with Harry is that he’s dead, won’t stay buried, and won’t give the inhabitants of a small Vermont village any peace: an elderly sea captain, an old maid, an artist, and the deceased’s young widow get involved in the problem of disposing of him, because they all feel guilty about his demise. Hitchcock loved the project’s potential for macabre understatement, so he has the group reacting with cool, callous detachment toward death. Rope THE WATCHFUL Wed 17 & Wed 24 Oct EYE Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1948 • 1h20m • 35mm • PG Cast: James Stewart, Farley Granger, John Dall, Dick Hogan. Hitchcock’s experiment with the 10-minute take has two young men killing a friend for the intellectual ‘thrill’ of it, and attempting to prove their superiority by hiding the body in a trunk and inviting guests round to dinner (including James Stewart, their college professor, whose ideas have inspired their act) to see if they suspect anything. The technique inevitably does slow things down, but the beautifully constructed set and the black wit and strong performances all round make for a provocative and perverse entertainment. Marnie THE TROUBLE Thu 18 & Mon 22 to Thu 25 Oct WITH SEX Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1964 • 2h10m Digital projection • 15 – Contains domestic and sexual threat Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Martin Gabel, Louise Latham. At once one of Hitchcock’s bad-marriage movies and a development of themes from both Vertigo (‘love’ as a form of manipulation) and Psycho, this sees a wealthy publisher (Connery) decide to marry the kleptomaniac (Hedren) who stole from his company – even though, by her own admission, she’s frigid. A dark, unsettling examination of the painful encounter of two differently troubled individuals; as in Under Capricorn, the truth is murkier than anything envisaged by the investigating lover’s mind’s eye. Spellbound THE TROUBLE Thu 18 & Sun 21 Oct WITH SEX Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1945 • 1h54m • 35mm PG – Contains mild threat, horror and descriptions of violence Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G Carroll, Rhonda Fleming. Again, a woman with an interest in psychology – this time a doctor at a psychiatric hospital (Bergman) – falls for a colleague (Peck) brought in to replace the retiring director, but the newcomer’s behaviour raises doubts as to his true identity. Famously, Hitch had Dalí work on a surreal dream sequence for what he regarded as ‘the first picture on psychoanalysis’, while Ben Hecht’s script neatly weaves Freudian motifs into what is both a psychological detective mystery and a troubled love story. Rear Window THE WATCHFUL Fri 19, Sat 20, Sun 21, Tue 23 & Thu 25 Oct EYE Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1954 • 1h54m Digital projection • PG – Contains mild violence Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter , Raymond Burr, Wendell Corey. James Stewart, immobilised in his apartment by a broken leg and aided by his girlfriend (Grace Kelly at her most vogue-coverish), takes to watching the inhabitants across the courtyard, first with binoculars, later with his camera. He thinks he witnesses a murder... Quite aside from the violation of intimacy, which is shocking enough, Hitchcock has nowhere else come so close to pure misanthropy, nor given us so disturbing a definition of what it is to watch the ‘silent film’ of other people’s lives, whether across a courtyard or up on a screen.
The Genius of Hitchcock/Luminate 23 FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT ARSENIC AND OLD LACE MA BAR Suspicion THE TROUBLE Sat 20 & Thu 25 Oct WITH SEX Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1941 • 1h39m • 35mm • PG Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Nigel Bruce, Cedric Hardwicke, May Whitty. With its British source (a Frances Iles novel), setting and mostly British cast, this was a return to the territory explored in Rebecca. About an intellectually bright but blinkered, even naive woman (Fontaine again) coming to wonder whether the playboy she impetuously agreed to wed (Grant) – a dishonest, penniless wastrel, it transpires – might be planning to murder her, the film is notable for its probing of Grant’s dark, suave charm and for its brave, fittingly pitch-black opening. Luminate A special screening as part of Luminate, Scotland’s creative ageing festival celebrating and profiling our creative lives as we age. This brand new festival taking place across Scotland throughout October 2012 offers an exciting and high quality programme of arts events and activities with and for older people, as well as events that attract audiences and participants across the generations. www.luminatescotland.org Fresh* Local* Seasonal* SINCE 1962 To help you find your way through this Hitchcock retrospective, we’ve split the films into categories: DAPHNE DU MAURIER The writer whose work was most frequently adapted by Hitch. FAMILY PLOTS Family life, Hitch style. DEAD FUNNY Brace yourself for Hitch’s macabre humour, jokes and pranks. THE TROUBLE WITH SEX Grapple with Hitch’s often disturbing visions of sex and sexuality. THE WATCHFUL EYE Take a closer look at how Hitchcock understands, and manipulates, our desire to see. More to come in the next programme! Arsenic and Old Lace Mon 8 Oct at 5.45pm Frank Capra • USA • 1944 • 1h58m • 35mm • PG Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson. On the eve of his wedding, theatre critic Mortimer Brewster discovers that his eccentric aunts are hiding a sinister secret...they murder the lonely gentlemen who visit their Brooklyn boarding house. Mortimer tries to conceal their crimes by blaming the harmless Teddy – who thinks he’s Theodore Roosevelt and is digging the Panama Canal in the cellar – but his plans are scuppered by the arrival of another sinister relative... PLUS SHORT Ma Bar Adrian McDowall & Finlay Pretsell • UK 2008 • 11m • Digibeta • PG Student discount restaurant*café shop* takeaway bistro* st.john’s www.hendersonsofedinburgh.co.uk facebook.com/hendersonsofedinburgh 94 Hanover Street, EH2 1DR 0131 225 2131 2012
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