Notorious, a film by Alfred Hitchcock

I saw it not too long ago and remember the cinematography being excellent.

This was during a stretch when I kept falling asleep during movies I saw with friends. I fell asleep for fifteen minutes of this and for thirty minutes of "The Big Sleep."

RE: TBS, I never woke up so confused in my life as when I woke up after missing the entire second act of that film.

I love this film. One of Hitchcock's and Grant's best (both as a team and individuals). Great stuff. And that final bit with Rains going back into the house is brilliantly nasty.

I bought the DVD last week at my kids' school's Summer Fair, haven't seen it for ages and haven't watched the DVD yet but remember loving it which goes without saying really, picked up this and Man with the Golden Arm for a quid.

As an act of conservation, can we use this thread to also anticipate
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^^Alfred Hitchcock lookin prety pimp there.

man cary and ingrid are hotttt together.

respectfully disagree on all of the above, this was a sore disappointment- the first half hour, anyway

do not tell me u are posting that on PAUSE.

hi morbs!

no, we took it out and watched something else instead.

i don't wish to upset you but refuse to truckle

hissboo

<3

I'm off to start a thread about the infinitely more alluring hitch i saw last week instead

darraghmac, will you come in please? We wish to talk to you.

A+

ah i see how this happened now. look d, there are no non-awesome Hitch films. (but yeah i wouldn't have it near my top 5, maybe 10)

Grant should have punched out more drunk women imo.

a maxim for all of us

I do like it, but no it's not creme de la creme.

It's my favorite.

Goddammit, my last post was sposed to go on the REBECCA thread!

see what u have done, darraghmac

It's so adult. The Nazi stooge is the guy who really loves her while the agent who says he loves her is almost relived to hate her for "whoring" herself.

AHA

essay for the Criterion reissue

"Here, Grant delivers on the promise of his first collaboration with Hitchcock, playing the potentially murderous husband opposite Fontaine in Suspicion. In these roles, Grant inverts his typical charm into an anti-charisma. Every sentence is as sharp as a blade, every gesture like chiseled ice. Hitchcock and Tetzlaff continue this subversion by introducing Grant with a shot of the back of his perfectly coiffed head, in essence taking away what had made him a star in the first place—his handsome visage and elastic physicality. He’s as tightly coiled as a snake waiting to strike. Never before or after was Grant so eerily still. Bergman is the antithesis of this, with a swooning, languid presence. Her kisses are full-bodied, holding the promise of so much more, making it clear she’s a grown woman who understands her body and its needs.

The conversations Alicia and Devlin share aren’t brimming with lustful bon mots and bedroom-eyed revelations. Devlin is, in fact, quite lacerating. Like many other men in noir, Devlin feels anxiety over the emotional vulnerability he experiences in Alicia’s presence, and punishes her for it. He uses her history—as a woman with an appetite for alcohol and sex—against her, even as her vitality is obviously what attracts him in the first place. He is only too ready to believe her when she tells him the symptoms of her arsenic poisoning are merely a hangover, another example of her trying to inhabit the role every man expects of her. “Immoral” behavior is never bluntly shown or spoken about, but it is there. When Devlin spits at Alicia the phrase “a woman like you,” we don’t need to see flashbacks of her history to understand just what he’s talking about."

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6147-notorious-the-same-hunger

Every sentence is as sharp as a blade, every gesture like chiseled ice. Hitchcock and Tetzlaff continue this subversion by introducing Grant with a shot of the back of his perfectly coiffed head, in essence taking away what had made him a star in the first place—his handsome visage and elastic physicality. He’s as tightly coiled as a snake waiting to strike. Never before or after was Grant so eerily still. Bergman

yes indeed