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Criterion Coll: Lodger - A Story Of The London Fog (The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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With his third feature film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, Alfred Hitchcock took a major step toward greatness and made what he wouId come to consider his true directoriaI debut. This haunting siIent thrilIer teIIs the tale of a mysterious young man (matinee idol lvor NoveIIo) who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse, just as a killer who preys on blonde women, known as the Avenger, descends upon the city. The film is animated by the palpable energy of a young styIist at play, decisively establishing the director s formaI and thematic obsessions. ln this edition, The Lodger is accompanied by DownhiIl, another 1927 siIent expIoration of Hitchcock s wrong man trope, aIso headlined by Novello making for a doubIe feature that reveaIs the great master of the macabre as he was just coming into his own.
TWO-DVD SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES
-2K digital restoration, with a new score by composer Neil Brand, performed by the Orchestra of Saint PauI s
-DownhilI, director Alfred Hitchcock s 1927 feature film starring lvor NoveIlo, in a 2K digitaI restoration with a new piano score by Brand
-New interview with fiIm schoIar WiIIiam Rothman on Hitchcock s visual signatures
-New video essay by art historian Steven Jacobs about Hitchcock s use of architecture
-Excerpts from audio interviews with Hitchcock by filmmakers François Truffaut (1962) and Peter Bogdanovich (1963)
-Radio adaptation of The Lodger from 1940, directed by Hitchcock
-New interview with Brand on composing for siIent film
-PLUS: Essays on The Lodger and Downhill by critic Philip Kemp |
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