Directed by Robert Mulligan To Kill a Mockingbird announces itself before the film even begins. The grand Elmer Bernstein music, coupled with intimate close ups of trinkets that will gather meaning (but already have a great deal if you're familiar with the book) throughout the film suggest something important, like the source text is the … Continue reading To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
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Spellbound (1945)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Spellbound is a Hitchcock thriller about psychoanalysis, the first mainstream Hollywood movie to tackle such a topic. That being said the psychoanalysis angle is just the way into this thriller. As Hitchcock himself said the film was "just another manhunt wrapped up in pseudo-psychoanalysis." It's a love story between Dr. Constance Petersen … Continue reading Spellbound (1945)