#885: HITCHCOCK, Alfred: The Lodger: A Story Of The London Fog (1927)
HITCHCOCK, Alfred (United Kingdom)
The Lodger: A Story Of The London Fog [1927]
Spine #885
DVD
The Booklet
Eight-page foldout featuring essays on The Lodger and Downhill by critic Philip Kemp.
Commentary
None.
2K digital restoration
With a new score by composer Neil Brand, performed by the Orchestra of Saint Paul’s.
Another 1927 feature
Directed by Hitchcock — Downhill — starring Novello, in a 2K digital restoration and with a new piano score by Brand.
Interview 1
With film scholar William Rothman on Hitchcock’s visual signatures.
Video essay
By art historian Steven Jacobs about Hitchcock’s use of architecture.
Excerpts
Radio adaptation
Of The Lodger from 1940, directed by Hitchcock.
The Lodger: A Story Of The London Fog [1927]
Spine #885
DVD
With his third feature film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, Alfred Hitchcock took a major step toward greatness and made what he would come to consider his true directorial debut. This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young man (matinee idol Ivor Novello) who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse just as a killer known as the Avenger descends upon the city, preying on blonde women. The film is animated by the palpable energy of a young stylist at play, decisively establishing the director's formal and thematic obsessions. In this release, The Lodger is accompanied by Downhill, another silent from 1927 that explores Hitchcock's "wrong man" trope, also headlined by Novello — making for a double feature that reveals the master of the macabre as he was just coming nto his own.
90 minutes
Tinted/Black & White
Silent
1:33:1 aspect ratio
Silent
1:33:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2017
Director/Writers
From the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes.
Screenplay by Eliot Stannard.
Alfred Hitchcock was 28 when he directed The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog.
Other Hitchcock films in the Collection:
#643: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
#56: The 39 Steps (1935)
#3: The Lady Vanishes (1938)
#135: Rebecca (1940)
#696: Foreign Correspondent (1940)
#136: Spellbound (1945)
#137: Notorious (1946)
The Film
Other Hitchcock films in the Collection:
#643: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
#56: The 39 Steps (1935)
#3: The Lady Vanishes (1938)
#135: Rebecca (1940)
#696: Foreign Correspondent (1940)
#136: Spellbound (1945)
#137: Notorious (1946)
The Film
A
Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Eight-page foldout featuring essays on The Lodger and Downhill by critic Philip Kemp.
Commentary
None.
2K digital restoration
With a new score by composer Neil Brand, performed by the Orchestra of Saint Paul’s.
Another 1927 feature
Directed by Hitchcock — Downhill — starring Novello, in a 2K digital restoration and with a new piano score by Brand.
Interview 1
With film scholar William Rothman on Hitchcock’s visual signatures.
Video essay
By art historian Steven Jacobs about Hitchcock’s use of architecture.
Excerpts
From audio interviews with Hitchcock by filmmakers François Truffaut (1962) and Peter Bogdanovich (1963 and 1972).
Radio adaptation
Of The Lodger from 1940, directed by Hitchcock.
Interview 2
With Brand on composing for silent film.
With Brand on composing for silent film.
Comments
Post a Comment