It would appear that Hitchcock conducted his research before he started Spellbound very well. Spellbound not only arrived in the midst of World War II, but also the height of what is now known as first force psychology. Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, died six years before the premiere of Spellbound, but he left many … Continue reading
I received an invitation from a friend and former professor of mine inviting me and a number of his other students and colleagues to view Tarkovsky’s Stalker (Сталкер, 1979) at Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center on a humid Saturday night at the end of July. I wasn’t surprised to find that only a handful of … Continue reading
