The Movie Book

FEAR AND WONDER 139 this spectacle from their wooden stage, which suddenly resembles the platform of a gallows. They have been s ...

IF I DO WHAT YOU TELL ME WILL YOU LOVE ME? VERTIGO / 1958 ...

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142 VERTIGO D irector Alfred Hitchcock’s career was a 50-year-long duel with the audience. The more they thought they knew about ...

FEAR AND WONDER 143 for creating cinematic suspense, saying in a 1977 TV interview, “Blondes make the best victims. They’re like ...

144 VERTIGO The casting of James Stewart affects the direction and impact of the movie profoundly; it adds an extra textual laye ...

FEAR AND WONDER 145 This poster shows the spiral motif that features in Scottie’s nightmare, and which recurs with the staircase ...

146 WHAT DID YOU DO DURING THE UPRISING? ASHES AND DIAMONDS / 1958 T he title of Andrzej Wajda’s war movie comes from a line of ...

FEAR AND WONDER 147 What else to watch: How to Be Loved (1963) ■ The Army of Shadows (1969) ■ The Birch Wood (1970) ■ The Promis ...

148 WELL NOBODY’S PERFECT SOME LIKE IT HOT / 1959 T he final words of Some Like It Hot, “Nobody’s perfect,” could have been writ ...

FEAR AND WONDER 149 What else to watch: Ninotchka (1939) ■ How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) ■ Sabrina (1954) ■ The Prince and t ...

YOUR PARENTS SAY YOU’RE ALWAYS LYING THE 400 BLOWS / 1959 ...

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152 THE 400 BLOWS M uch has been written by critics about The 400 Blows. Indeed, the movie’s director, François Truffaut, was on ...

FEAR AND WONDER 153 as it is felt, in all its agony, uncertainty, joy, and heartlessness. The movie’s enigmatic English title co ...

154 THE 400 BLOWS The poster for the movie’s cinematic release shows Antoine staring back at the land as he reaches the shore an ...

FEAR AND WONDER 155 continue to chronicle the character’s adventures in a series of movies). When he reaches the water’s edge, h ...

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158 R eleased in the last moments of the 1950s, François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows was the bridge into the decade to come, and th ...