Comments on Bright Lights After Dark: Two More for the Movie Bookshelf

Thanks, Movieman, for adding those two. The Movie...

2009-07-27T20:55:28.461-07:00

Thanks, Movieman, for adding those two. The Movie Bookshelf was a genuinely worthwhile project, and I was gratified to be part of it.

The list has been updated. I like Durgnat's point ...

2009-07-27T04:43:02.909-07:00

The list has been updated. I like Durgnat's point about the score. Everyone remembers (of course) the famous screeches and also the stabbing theme as Marion drives, but the music is subtly affecting throughout.

Seems like no one has inspired more good film writ...

2009-07-18T18:35:37.259-07:00

Seems like no one has inspired more good film writing than Hitchcock. Bill Krohn's Hitchcock at Work is *indispensable*. Another good one is Charles Barr's English Hitchcock.

I never read the Tyler Parker book, which looks in...

2009-07-18T15:03:28.013-07:00

I never read the Tyler Parker book, which looks interesting, but I love Durgnat's Psycho book. In fact when you did the last piece I thought of mentioning it myself but wasn't sure if you counted it as like an expanded BFI book or not. I don't know if we mentioned this one or not, but I would have put Donald Spoto's book on Hitchock's movies in the list as well; that was the first book of film criticism I read. Though it's a little thin and forced to me now, I enjoy it in both's its versions.