The Mogul
One doesn’t like to boast, but… Over 50,000 hits last month! Is that good? I don’t know, but it’s a personal best.
If that actually meant anything, gee it would be great. Maybe I should try selling something here?
Who’d buy a DOCTOR WOMAN T-shirt?
While I’m here, I just want to announce that next week’s Film Club will be on WEDNESDAY, and the film in question will be Strangers On A Train (1951) [DVD]
shadowplay 
September 1, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Suggested reading: Farley Granger’s memoir “Include Me Out.”
He really enjoyed working with Hitch who showed him precisely what he was doing every step of the way.
September 2, 2009 at 1:50 am
I’ll look out for a copy. Recently picked up Raymond Chandler on Writing, which might also prove useful.
September 2, 2009 at 4:03 am
looking forward to this one..watched “Strangers” again recently..
September 2, 2009 at 9:41 am
It’s been a couple of years since I last watched it, expect to make a few discoveries. It really stands out in this period as the most accomplished and wholly successful Hitch, I think. Although the flawed ones are fascinating too, maybe even more so.
September 2, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Putting Hitch ever so slightly to one side it’s fascinating from the Patricia Highsmith angle. She wrote one lesbian romance novel “The Price of Salt” under a pseudonym — and then this. Turned by Hitchcock into a classic it made her fame. It’s also matrix for all her other work. For Highsmith’s main narrative trope was the way a sucessful psychopath can lure a seemigly ordinary “solid citizen” into commiting crimes for him. This is what Ripley does in all the post Talented novels and it figures in nearly every one of her non-Ripley novels as well.
As I may have mentioned, Highsmith spent her last years at the feet of magnificently named Tabea Blumenschein — the glamorous star of Ulrike Ottinger’s Ticket of No Return
September 2, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Here’s Tabea as a vengful masthead in Ottiger’s Madame X — An Absolute Ruler
September 2, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Blimey! Alert Ray Harryhausen. Golden Voyage of Sinbad was never like this.
Highsmith’s collection Little Tales of Misogyny is a very odd book indeed. I can’t quite get a handle on what she’s up to in it.
September 2, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Sinbad better not catch y’all doin’ that!!…(john wayne voice)By Allah!