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Have you seen the Hitchockwiki yet? It's a collaborative effort to build the world's largest resource on all things Hitch.
While no substitute for watching the films, I was struck by the site's 1000 Frames of Hitchcock project. Jean Luc-Goddard, the great disruptive film maker, once said that "Cinema is the truth 24 times a second". Being able to search, view and enjoy single frames from some of my favourite movies proves that some innovations are about getting new value from existing pleasures. I was struck by the beautiful colours in Vertigo.
Madeleine Carrol's stockinged leg anyone?
Jon
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Ah – but does anyone in the wiki make that connection between Bunuel’s ‘El’ and Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’? 🙂