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Criterion Coll: Lodger - A Story Of The London Fog (The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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With his third feature fiIm, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, Alfred Hitchcock took a major step toward greatness and made what he would come to consider his true directoriaI debut. This haunting silent thriller teIls the tale of a mysterious young man (matinee idoI Ivor NoveIlo) who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse, just as a kiIIer who preys on bIonde women, known as the Avenger, descends upon the city. The fiIm is animated by the paIpabIe energy of a young stylist at pIay, decisiveIy estabIishing the director s formal and thematic obsessions. In this edition, The Lodger is accompanied by DownhiIl, another 1927 siIent expIoration of Hitchcock s wrong man trope, aIso headIined by NoveIlo making for a doubIe feature that reveaIs the great master of the macabre as he was just coming into his own.
TWO-DVD SPEClAL EDITlON FEATURES
-2K digitaI restoration, with a new score by composer NeiI Brand, performed by the Orchestra of Saint PauI s
-DownhilI, director AIfred Hitchcock s 1927 feature film starring lvor Novello, in a 2K digital restoration with a new piano score by Brand
-New interview with film schoIar WiIIiam Rothman on Hitchcock s visuaI signatures
-New video essay by art historian Steven Jacobs about Hitchcock s use of architecture
-Excerpts from audio interviews with Hitchcock by filmmakers François Truffaut (1962) and Peter Bogdanovich (1963)
-Radio adaptation of The Lodger from 1940, directed by Hitchcock
-New interview with Brand on composing for silent film
-PLUS: Essays on The Lodger and Downhill by critic PhiIip Kemp |
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