Rebecca
- Sat, Jan 18
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Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 130 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 1940
Starring: George Sanders, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, Laurence Olivier, Nigel Bruce
Screenwriters: Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison
Producer: David O. Selznick
Vidiots is thrilled to welcome film historian, author, podcaster, and Founding Member Karina Longworth for a series of film screenings that tie into the new season of the hit podcast You Must Remember This – The Old Man is Still Alive.
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” So begins Alfred Hitchcock’s first Hollywood film, an elegant, dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s gothic romance novel. Joan Fontaine stars as a young woman who marries a handsome widower (played by a brooding Laurence Olivier) and moves with him to his ancestral home by the sea. Her marital bliss is soon lost in the shadows of the grand mansion, overwhelmed by the still-lingering presence of the first Mrs. de Winter, whose memory is kept alive by the obsessive devotion of the estate’s head housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers.
Nominated for 11 Academy Awards and winner of two — Best Picture and Best Cinematography — Rebecca is one of Hitchcock’s most poetic, haunting films, filled with indelible images that will burn their way into your memory.
The Old Man is Still Alive tells the story of 14 directors — including Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, John Huston and more — whose careers began in the early decades of Hollywood, who were still making movies in the 60s and 70s and even 80s. In many cases, these directors, many of them Oscar winners or the men behind undeniable classics like It’s a Wonderful Life, My Fair Lady, Sunset Boulevard, Gigi and Psycho, attempted – or were forced – to engage with massive changes in technology; sudden-seeming shifts in attitudes towards race and gender; and a new generation of studio executives and audiences who could be skeptical that an old man had anything to offer in a world obsessed with burning down the past and starting fresh. Some railed against the new “degenerate” cinema made by, in Billy Wilder’s phrase, “the kids with beards” and tried to keep doing what they had been doing for 30 years; others were quick to try to get with the times by making films that confronted the generation gap and a transformed society (even dropping acid as “research”); others fell somewhere in between.
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