Marnie
1964’s Marnie is Alfred Hitchcock on the comeback trail. True, the previous year’s The Birds had been a big hit, with barely any critics openly saying what a lot of them must have thought – that it’s not top-flight (ouch) Hitchcock. It had made a stack of cash for the director and Paramount. But Hitchcock knew it wasn’t quite up there with the best. And so he set out to make a better film by deliberately borrowing from the best – himself. From Psycho another blonde called Marion (as Marnie is first introduced), the mother issues and lots of fraught sexuality. From the high 1950s era of North by Northwest/Vertigo/Rear Window the lush … Read more