Showing posts with label Alfred Hitchcock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alfred Hitchcock. Show all posts

Friday, October 17, 2025

The Birds

Acute antennae belvedere bristles Solomon's mines toga extraction, copious comatose riddling rhzanythemums certifish-friar Tsk-Tusk Atticustard.

Gourmet grammerstone Althuscenario libretto l'oeuvre amorphous glob, Lazarus Beemsters minty MacGyver meteor mocha-cha hospice 'renade. 

Volatile vociferrous binoclover cuddle vehicule vixen saturnine dip, festive decor enigmatic microtiobse thistle expedient catacomb clutch.

Awkward accensual macabre mistel totemperate Calaway stillwater clan, cavebear curmudgeon anatomical hue particulate curdle lexicon smudge. 

Indisposed diligence Wituka wink bucolic embraceway durable danchor, stumbling sermonte carlotion wheelhousecall sitar sequester adamant strike. 

Demonstrative drizzle emphatic voluptuous stallion synchopita patter coblatter, mythical mastodon sashay seclusion stepsilon stammer catalisp flam.

Johnson and Johnson Special Agent Swanson forested flackery hillside hallow, somnolent starburst innocent glide inundated satchel levinous chime.

Brittle boxspringboard martian saguaro extraterrestrial salient entity, orbital thrusters ballroomy cusp stad piƱachostie residual elegance.

Rummagpie slamstringed cornate cudgellatin instrumental zounds skyward soaring sedation, baseline barometer chumdrum hobeat vocalibration rhythmic fugue. 

Battalion breeze formidable flock bedazzling Blue Jay carneige hobnibble. crucible cavalier camplified chorus edifice feisty resilient team.

Sodapop buzz effervescent vessel ceremonious shade salubrious standoff, off-kilter word smithmus smithereen resonance sequent schemata Jetson jocose.

Featherwing Zodiak pluminescent style bellicose beak truculent treatise, October lore steamwhistle station eloquent stash Go Jays Go!

Birds usually don't attack like they do in the film.

Even saw a bunch on the road today.

They kept intermittently flying forward while I was walking.

Looked like a fugue.

That was cool. 

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Vertigo

A detective quits the force (James Stewart as John Ferguson) after a near-death experience scars him, his partner having plunged to his death trying to desperately save him.

He can no longer deal with heights and suffers from vertigo when looking down, his adoring friend trying to aid his recovery with modest sprightly daring address (Barbara Bel Geddes as Marjorie Wood). 

An old friend suddenly gets in touch (Tom Helmore as Gavin Elster) and tells him a wild story about his wife (Kim Novak as Madeleine Elster), how he believes she thinks she's possessed by the covetous spirit of a long lost relative.

He's hired to casually follow her as she makes her way around town, visiting art collections or pleasantly shopping as the bizarro days lackadaisically float by.

But she suddenly pumps up the volume by drastically plunging into San Francisco Bay, Mr. Ferguson soon jumping in after her, after which they strike up a curious acquaintance. 

But he's too late she's too far gone he unfortunately can't do anything to save her.

He's incapacitated after her passing.

Until one day, he discovers another. 

Blind obsession compulsively drives naive Mr. Ferguson to pursue an ideal, long after the disastrous moment which harrowingly led to his quixotic conviction. 

The mind-blowing shock of regenerative love igniting latent intransitory torments, everyone around him suffering as a result as he seeks fantasized facsimile. 

It's classic Hitchcocks it's been so long since I've seen one of his striking films, the frenzied emotions the intense disbelief wrapped up in crippling uncanny lamentations. 

I saw many of them in my childhood in fact sought to see every one long ago, I even taped Vertigo off of television when but a wee lad, youthful glib impressionable contemplation.

It's an excellent film wherein which people love and love's not a bad thing, it's to be cherished, admired, even Midge is quite admirable, no doubt like hapless Edward in Kierkegaard's Seducer's Diary.

In terms of forging a general consensus amongst highly opinionated peeps, perhaps it is the best film of all time, or the one which has been begrudgingly chosen.

Almost every episode of Elementary contains a much deeper mysterious plot.

With love growing piecemeal I presume.

I must admit, I prefer Citizen Kane (and Aliens).