DETAILS: All shows at the Riverview play on Monday nights at 7:30pm. Admission is $8 or $25 for a 5 film pass (up to two uses per screening, passes my not be used for advance tickets).
Finally something good to look forward to while Summer meanders onto the scene.
Apr 5 - Psycho (1960)
“Mother’s not quite herself today.” After trysting with married lover John Gavin, Janet Leigh embezzles 40 grand and heads South of the Border, but stops for a rest at taxidermy buff Anthony Perkins’ Bates Motel, where guests check in, but... Hitchcock’s legendary blackly comic shocker vaulted its title into the non-Freudian mainstream and turned comfy shower stalls into places of terror — aided by Bernard Herrmann’s shrieking all-strings score.
Apr 12 - Notorious (1946)
Reluctant spy Ingrid Bergman complains “He wants to marry me” to lover/FBI contact Cary Grant, after Nazi fellow traveler Claude Rains falls a little too hard for her undercover activities. Painful sexual politics underscore the high tension set pieces of suspense.
Apr 19 - Marnie (1964)
What’s wealthy publisher Sean Connery to do when he finds employee Tippi Hedren is a compulsive klepto? Why, marry her, of course. But the real surprises start on the wedding night.
Apr 26 - Lifeboat (1944)
Grand Hotel in miniature, as after a sinking at sea, spoiled journalist Tallulah Bankhead, left-wing seaman John Hodiak, right-wing mogul Henry Hull, et al. — plus mysterious Walter Slezak — find themselves in the title conveyance, with Hitchcock’s camera never moving outside the boat. From an original script by John Steinbeck, with the director’s most challenging cameo.
May 3 - The Birds (1963)
“The Birds is Coming!” Bratty playgirl Tippi Hedren, after exchanging barbs with lawyer Rod Taylor in a Frisco pet shop, follows him to Bodega Bay, with a gift of — ulp! — lovebirds... and then nature turns. Hitchcock’s tour de force of terror from the mundane includes a barrage of optical tricks and a completely music-less track of electronic sounds supervised by Bernard Herrmann.
Watch the rest of this series at the Trylon microcinema (3258 Minnehaha Ave S) on Friday and Saturday nights:
Shadow of a Doubt(April 2nd & 3rd), The Lady Vanishes(April 9th & 10th), Mr and Mrs Smith(April 16th & 17th), The 39 Steps(April 23rd & 24th), and The Trouble With Harry(April 30th & May 1st).
More information and advance tickets can be found at take-up.org
Alfred Hitchcock: Across the Decades
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