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Subject: News for Hitchcock freaks
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Date: Mon, 26-Sep-83 10:30:05 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 26 10:30:05 1983
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Indeed.  All five Hitchcock films that had hitherto been unavailable for
commercial screening in this country will go into wide distribution
this fall.  In addition to *Vertigo*, you can look forward to *Rope*,
*The Man Who Knew Too Much* (second version) and *The Trouble With
Harry*.  *Rear Window* will be shown this Friday and Saturday at the NY
Film Festival.  Sold out, but I've got tickets!  That movie and
*Vertigo* are the masterworks here, while the hilarious *Trouble* is a
bit of a cult film among Hitch devotees.  The disappointment is the
second *Man* with Doris Day singing "Que sera, sera" to death and a
poorly done ending.  The original is a pleasure.

On the NY Film Festival, I saw Larry Kasdan's *The Big Chill* on
opening night this past Friday.  It's being released this week.  I
imagine I'm too young to appreciate the full extent of the effect this
movie is bound to have on anyone who "came of age" in the sixties, but
great filmmaking and terrific acting, as practiced here, have a
universal appeal.  With *Return of the Secaucus Seven* and *Winter of
Our Dreams*, we now have a varied and fascinating triad on the theme 
of "The Sixties, Fifteen Years Later".

Final Plug:  Playing now is a truly wonderful Australian film called
*Lonely Hearts*.  Much more than an up-to-date, more sexually
sophisticated version of *Marty*, it's a very gentle story that, under
a heavy hand, might crumble easily, but the touch here is light and
delicate, and the spirit soars.  Love is beautiful.  Regardless.

--Charles (decvax!allegra!cbf)