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Torn Curtain is a 1966 American spy political thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews.Written by Brian Moore, the film is set in the Cold War and concerns an American scientist who appears to defect behind the Iron Curtain to East Germany.
Studio publicity photo of Hitchcock in 1955. Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) [1] was an English director and filmmaker. Popularly known as the "Master of Suspense" for his use of innovative film techniques in thrillers, [1] [2] Hitchcock started his career in the British film industry as a title designer and art director for a number of silent films during the early 1920s.
The Mountain Eagle is a 1926 silent film, and Alfred Hitchcock's second as director, following The Pleasure Garden. [1] The film, a romantic drama set in Kentucky, is about a widower (Bernhard Goetzke) who jealously competes with his crippled son (John F. Hamilton) and a man he loathes (Malcolm Keen) over the affections of a schoolteacher ().
The Red Cockatoo (Der Rote Kakadu), 2006 – young love and friendship in 1961 East Germany; partly set in the Kopenhagener Straße. Director Dominik Graf. Riding Up Front (Schöner Leben), 2006 – at Christmas Eve several residents and visitors in Berlin try very hard to get happy. Directed by Markus Herling.
This page lists films that are set fully, or almost entirely, in only one location. Such films are sometimes referred to as "bottle movies" [1] or "chamber pieces". [2] [3] [4] In June 2023, film critic Chris Stuckmann speculated that the limitations that chamber pieces bring not only make writers self-conscious but also drive their creativity.
The Silent Revolution (2018 film) Sky Without Stars; The Soldier (1982 film) Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything; Sonnenallee; Spy Game; The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (film) Stop Train 349; Sun Seekers; Suspiria (2018 film)
A Hitchcock film is an organism, with the whole implied in every detail and every detail related to the whole." [243] Hitchcock's film production career evolved from small-scale silent films to financially significant sound films. Hitchcock remarked that he was influenced by early filmmakers George Méliès, D. W. Griffith and Alice Guy-Blaché ...
According to Hitchcock: Waltzes from Vienna gave me many opportunities for working out ideas in the relation of film and music. Naturally every cut in the film was worked out on the script before shooting began. But more than that, the musical cuts were worked out too. Hitchcock told François Truffaut that this film was the lowest ebb of his ...