Episode 286: Vertigo

Special Guests: Patrick McGilligan, Dan Auiler
Guest Co-Hosts: Tania Modleski, Susan White

Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo is a tale of obsession which has sparked an obsession in many of its viewers. Jimmy Stewart stars as John "Scottie" Ferguson, a disgraced detective who's hired by an old friend to follow his wife, Madeline (Kim Novak), who seems to have become possessed by a spirit from San Francisco's past.

Professors Tania Modleski and Susan White (no relation) join Mike to discuss the film which was ranked as the best film in the world in a 2012 Sight & Sound poll. Authors Patrick McGilligan (Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light) and Dan Auiler (Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic)

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Links:
Buy Vertigo on Blu-Ray
Buy Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic by Dan Auiler
Buy Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light by Patrick McGilligan
Buy The Women Who Knew Too Much by Tania Modleski
Buy Hitchcock's Films Revisited by Robin Wood
Buy The Cinema of Max Ophuls by Susan M. White
Visit the The Bernard Herrmann Society website
Read more about the film at The Hitchcock Zone
Read Alfred Hitchcock brought out the glorious weaknesses in Jimmy Stewart by Jesse Hassenger
Read the Vertigo script
Read The Midge Portrait in "Vertigo:" The Parody of Carlotta by The Art of Film
Read The Scandal of Vertigo: It’s Not What You Think by Peter Hayes
Listen to other Projection Booth episodes on the films of Alfred Hitchcock
Hear more from Patrick McGilligan on other Projection Booth episodes

Music:
"The Forest" - Bernard Herrmann
"Carlotta Valdes" - Ghost Rhythms
"Vertigo" - Billy Eckstine
"Carlotta Valdez" - Harvey Danger

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Episode 270: Stage Fright

Special Guest: Patrick McGilligan
Guest Co-Hosts: Tania Modleski, Filip Önell

Seen as one of the "lesser" of Alfred Hitchcock's films, Stage Fright (1950) is a fascinating update of the themes explored in Murder! (1930) as well as a interesting take on the reliability of narrators.

Joining Mike this week are Professor Tania Modleski (author of The Women Who Knew Too Much) and Filip Önell. Returning for another interview is author Patrick McGilligan, author of Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light. The second part of the interview with Mr. McGilligan can be heard on the upcoming Vertigo episode.

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Links:
Buy Stage Fright on DVD
Buy The Women Who Knew Too Much by Tania Modleski
Buy Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light by Patrick McGilligan
Visit The Hitchcock Zone
Visit The Hitchcock Project
Visit the official Marlene Dietrich website
Read about Stage Fright at Fridays with Hitchcock
Read about Filip Önell's Nightbreed Fan Edit

Music:
"Stage Fright Rhapsody" - Rumon Gamba
"The Laziest Gal in Town" - Marlene Dietrich

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Episode 193: In a Lonely Place

Special Guests: Patrick McGilligan, Steven Rybin, Will Scheibel, & Steve Anderson
Guest Co-Host: Jared Case

Noir November continues with Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place. Based loosely on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes, the film stars Humphrey Bogart as a screenwriter on the edge of madness and Gloria Grahame as the woman who tries to love him.

We're joined by Jared Case, Head of Motion Picture Collection Information and Access at the George Eastman House.

We conclude our interview with Patrick McGilligan as we discuss his book Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director.

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Links:
Buy In a Lonely Place on DVD
Buy In A Lonely Place by Dorothy B Hughes
Buy Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director by Patrick McGilligan
Buy Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema Edited by Steven Rybin and Will Scheibel
Visit the This Last Lonely Place website
Learn more about The George Eastman House
Support the Nicholas Ray Foundation
Visit the official Humphrey Bogart website
Listen to the Out of the Past podcast about In a Lonely Place

Music:
"In a Lonely Place" - New Order
"In a Lonely Place" - The Smithereens
"The Beast in Me" - Johnny Cash

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Episode 191: The Big Heat (1953)

Special Guest: Patrick McGilligan
Guest Co-Host: Jay A. Gertzman

We start off Noir November with a bang! It's Fritz Lang's 1953 flick The Big Heat, starring Glenn Ford as a straight-arrow cop who takes on corruption in Philadelphia.

Links:
Visit the official site for Jay A. Gertzman
Buy Fritz Lang: Nature of the Beast by Patrick McGilligan
Buy The Big Heat on DVD
Buy The Big Heat by William P. McGivern
Buy Destiny Express by Howard Rodman
Be sure to LIKE Pulp According to David Goodis
Buy Samuel Roth, Infamous Modernist by Jay A. Gertman
Read a great article on Fritz Lang

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Music:
"The Big Heat" - Stan Ridgway

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