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Blu-ray Deal: Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection (Limited Edition)
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The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is the Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection (Limited Edition) Blu-ray box set for only $109.99 (that’s 63% off the list price of $299.98).

Note, this sale is only for today, Monday, October 21, 2013 until 11:59pm PST while supplies last.

This Blu-ray box set comes with 15 classic Alfred Hitchcock suspense films, which starred actors like James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Anthony Perkins, Sean Connery, and Doris Day: North by Northwest, Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, Shadow of a Doubt, Family Plot, Frenzy, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Marnie, Rope, Saboteur, Topaz, Torn Curtain, The Trouble with Harry.

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Celebrate National Alfred Hitchcock Day Today!
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Today is National Hitchcock Day, a day of celebrating and remembering the Master of Suspense, the man who was as much a colorful enigmatic character as the scores of films he directed, many of which stand as cinema’s all-time best, the one and only Alfred Hitchcock.

Hitchcock helmed films such as Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo, Rear Window, North By Northwest, Frenzy, Rope, and a multitude of others (15 of which are now collected on the Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection Blu-ray box set), creating a resume that not only stands the test of time, but remains a highly influential body of work, cinematic primers, and visual textbooks that scores of filmmakers in Hitchcock’s wake have studied, dissected, analyzed, and revered, using many of his techniques in their own productions. Hitchcock had a huge imagination and it showed in so many of his productions, be it his casting, framing, staging, the way his movies were shot, edited, and scored; imitations in the sincerest form of flattery and the in-sincerest form of thievery, the film landscape that Hitchcock planted by way of his expert movie landscaping remains terrain much treaded on by so many luminaries and rookies and all in between, who work not only in Hollywood, but film companies around the world.

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Blu-ray Deal: Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection (Limited Edition)
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The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is the Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection (Limited Edition) Blu-ray box set for only $119.99 (that’s 60% off the list price of $299.98).

Note, this sale is only for today, Saturday, December 22, 2012 until 11:59pm PST while supplies last.

This Blu-ray box set comes with 15 classic Alfred Hitchcock suspense films, which starred actors like James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Anthony Perkins, Sean Connery, and Doris Day: North by Northwest, Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, Shadow of a Doubt, Family Plot, Frenzy, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Marnie, Rope, Saboteur, Topaz, Torn Curtain, The Trouble with Harry.

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Movie Review: Hitchcock
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Hitchcock
Directed by Sacha Gervasi
Written by John J. McLaughlin
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Rated R | 98 Minutes
Release Date: December 7, 2012

Directed by Sacha Gervasi, Hitchcock is based on Stephen Rebello‘s non-fiction book, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho.

This tongue-in-cheek film adaptation, written by John J. McLaughlin, centers on the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) during the making of Psycho.

Gervasi’s film opens as if it were an episode of the Hitchcock’s short-lived television series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. On a Wisconsin farm, Hitchcock witnesses the death of a man at the hands of Ed Gein (Michael Wincott). After delivering his signature, “Good Evening,” Hitchcock introduces us to Gein, a real-life body snatcher and serial killer whose grisly work influenced the cinematic slashers like Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs, and, of course, Norman Bates from Psycho.

After this humorous, rather charming opening, the story of Psycho begins at the premiere of Hitchcock’s 1959 film, North By Northwest. While the director is no doubt enjoying the critical and financial success of his latest picture, he is struggling to find his next project – that is, until he stumbles across Robert Bloch’s latest novel, Psycho.

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Watch This Time-Lapse Video Of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’
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Alfred Hitchcock, the famed director known as “The Master of Suspense,” has directed over 60 motion pictures in his lifetime, Psycho, North by Northwest, and Vertigo among countless others. One of his standouts, 1954’s Rear Window, has just been turned into a visually panoramic piece of eye candy in a time-lapse video, which has gone viral. You can watch the 3-minute video here below.

Rear Window is a film full of suspense, humor, and bizarre twists that were stock in trade for Hitchcock’s pictures. Its main protagonist, an action photographer played by James Stewart, is incapacitated in a wheelchair, nursing a broken leg he suffered during one of his many dangerous jobs. Stewart’s apartment faces out to a large courtyard, and we, like him, see the action only through his eyes, which creates a very tight, claustrophobic atmosphere. Stewart alleviates his boredom being in the chair by spying in the windows of the other apartment in the courtyard. By accident, he feels he’s witnessed evidence in one of the windows that a murder has taken place. As Stewart is not physically able to put the pieces together, he and we as an audience, feel the frustrations as he is forced to leave those functions to solve the murder in the hands of others, like his girlfriend, played by Grace Kelly, among others.

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