Hitch on the other hand is a very gifted one-trick pony. You never walk away from his movies questioning the categories of good and evil. With Hitch, good is good; bad is bad; and sex/death is there for the little frisson that leads everyone to think that he's deep. He's not.
But I grant I haven't seen Frenzy. I'll give it a try.
Joanna
Brian Charles Dauth wrote:
> Dear List:
>
>> But in his entire career, he never made a movie as good as "M"
>
>
> Lifeboat?
> Notorious?
> Rear Window?
> To Catch a Thief?
>
> To name just four?
>
>> . . . and, in fact, the more "mature" he got, the more trivial his
>> movies
>
> got.
>
> How are masterpieces like Frenzy and Family Plot trivial? Is there a
> greater dissection/critique of male power and social instability than
> Frenzy?
>
>> I grant he always provided an excellent emotional roller coaster
>
> ride. But that was it.
>
> And how many other directors can you say this of over as long a period
> as Hitchcock did and for so many films?
>
> Brian Dauth
> Queer Buddhist Resister
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