Alfred Hitchcock, the 1980s at the ArcLight Cinemas
In March, Los Angeles’ ArcLight cinemas will host two mini-retrospectives: one dedicated to Alfred Hitchcock at ArcLight Hollywood, the other dedicated to the 1980s at ArcLight Sherman Oaks. The two film series run from March 2-30. (Scroll down for the schedule/ticket info.)
The Hitchcock films are all among his biggest and best-known successes (and they should look good on the big screen):
- the romantic spy drama Notorious (1946), in which Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant become involved with a Nazi spy ring in Rio de Janeiro (courtesy of spymasters Claude Rains and Madame Leopoldine Konstantin, both of whom steal the movie from the nominal stars);
- the thriller Rear Window (1954), whose most interesting features are Robert Burks‘ vibrant color cinematography and the always welcome Thelma Ritter, ever ready with some sardonic aside or other;
- Hitchcock’s all-out entry into the type of over-the-top horror film that was quite popular in the late 1950s, Psycho (1960), with Janet Leigh as the unlucky bank employee and Anthony Perkins as The Son-Mother;
- and The Birds (1963), another horror drama, starring Tippi Hedren as a woman whose fancy clothes and jewelry raise the wrath of Northern California’s hippie birds.
The 1980s films will also benefit from the ArcLight’s big screens:
- Martin Scorsese’s boxing drama Raging Bull (top photo, 1980), considered by many (I’m not among them) the best American movie of the 1980s;
- The Steven Spielberg-produced, Tobe Hooper-directed Poltergeist (1982), which looks and feels more Spielbergian than Hooperian;
- Ghostbusters (1984), the action-horror-comedy filled with both special effects and Sigourney Weaver;
- the fluffy but enjoyable Back to the Future (1985), starring Michael J. Fox and for which Spielberg received credit as executive producer;
- and Dirty Dancing (1987), starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey.
Schedule:
ARCLIGHT HOLLYWOOD: ALFRED HITCHCOCK
March 4 – NOTORIOUS (1946) – 8PM
March 11 – REAR WINDOW (1954) – 8PM
March 18 – PSYCHO (1960) – 8PM
March 25 – THE BIRDS (1963) – 8PM
ARCLIGHT SHERMAN OAKS: THE 1980s
March 2 – RAGING BULL (1980) – 7:30PM
March 9 – POLTERGEIST (1982) – 7:30PM
March 16 – GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) – 7:30PM
March 23 – BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) – 7:30PM
March 30 – DIRTY DANCING (1987) – 7:30PM
Tickets available online at Arclightcinemas.com or at the ArcLight box office. For more information got to AFI.com.
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Awesome! Ill be t here for the Hitchcock films. I’ve never watched “Rear Window” on the big screen. That’ll be a treat.
Too bad I missed that Hitchcock series……..