Virtual Film Club

Program Type:

Film Club

Age Group:

Adults
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Program Description

Virtual Film Club

Each month we pick a culturally or historically significant film for library patrons to watch and discuss. Watch the film on your own time, then meet with our virtual film club to discuss the film on Zoom. Registration is required. Zoom Invites will be sent out via email.

Event Details

This month's film is Blackmail (1929) directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Additional Resources:

GENERAL

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1kWUWNPJa8  (1 minute 15 secs)

Turner Classic Movies webpage for ‘Blackmail’: https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/5899/blackmail#overview

REVIEWS & CRITICISM, etc.

Jeffrey M. Anderson (Combustible Celluloid, 2019): https://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/classic/blackmail.shtml

Lauren Humphries-Brooks (Citizen Dame, 2019): https://citizendamepod.com/blackmail-hitchcocks-nastiest-british-film-gets-the-blu-ray-release-it-deserves/

Celia Simpson (The Spectator, 1929): http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/3rd-august-1929/12/the-cinema

TheAdam159 (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoQ18QVSEqU (3 min 18 sec)

Foreign Correspondents: Deeper into Hitchcock (podcast): Episode 9, ‘Blackmail’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZA09OgquWI  (50 min 34 sec)

Hitchcock-Truffaut Episode 3: ‘Blackmail’ (1929), first British sound movie, and ‘Murder!’ (1930): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idYtdX0UeIM (27 min 57 sec)

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR, Alfred Hitchcock

Official Website: http://www.alfredhitchcock.com/

Mark Duguid, Hitchcock’s Style: http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tours/hitch/tour1.html

British Film Institute (BFI) Hitchcock page: https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ee3449d

Profile by Shelly Schwartz (2020): https://www.thoughtco.com/alfred-hitchcock-1779814

MISCELLANEOUS

Portraits of Hitchcock, from the National Portrait Gallery (U.K.: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp05410

Nine Things You May Not Know About Alfred Hitchcock: https://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-alfred-hitchcock

Fifteen Fascinating Facts About Alfred Hitchcock: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/537233/facts-about-alfred-hitchcock

OTHER RESOURCES (at BAPL, unless otherwise noted)

791.43 Hedren, Tippi. Tippi: A Memoir (2016)  -- The actress discusses and analyzes her ‘complicated relationship’ with Hitchcock

OVERSIZE 791.43  Mogg, Ken. The Alfred Hitchcock Story (1999)

791.43 Spoto, Donald. Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies (1992)

791.43 Stevens, George, Jr. Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age at the American Film Institute (2006), pps. 253-277.

791.43 White, Edward. The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense (2021)

 

all online links current as of May 9, 2023