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after a long day of boring fight script, barfing dog, and too much sodium, i fell into a television series coma from which i have only just recently awaken.
i was going to write about Hitchcock, but i don't feel like it. I Confess has (by today's standards) a fairly hackneyed plot (priest is suspected of a murder which was confessed to him, etc. and there's an old flame involved), but i think it's the most beautiful of Hitchcock's films. Montgomery Clift is ridiculously good-looking (oy vey!) and the cinematography is phenomenal.
what else can i say. watch the movie. it's not hitchcock's greatest film story-wise, but visually i think it beats the pants off almost all of the others. what a feast! the film was shot in quebec ~ so not surprisingly, the exterior shots in particular are amazing!
if you want to see a whole slew of stills from the movie, check out this great site ~ it's got wonderful shots from all throughout the movie (warning: spoilers!)
it's really too bad about Monty Clift (he's one of those actors you just don't want to read about because his life was just such a mess). so sad. and i suppose equally hard to watch him in a film like this when he was young and still gorgeous (before the car accident). there's a really disheartening extra on the dvd of this in which someone (i forget who) recalls a screening of the movie years later to which Clift showed up and watched from the back. it was clearly hard for him to watch too, the interviewee said, and Clift more or less said as much as well. meh.
i'm looking for a copy of The Heiress but haven't tracked one down yet. seems like it's not available easily, but I'm determined.
: D
i was going to write about Hitchcock, but i don't feel like it. I Confess has (by today's standards) a fairly hackneyed plot (priest is suspected of a murder which was confessed to him, etc. and there's an old flame involved), but i think it's the most beautiful of Hitchcock's films. Montgomery Clift is ridiculously good-looking (oy vey!) and the cinematography is phenomenal.
what else can i say. watch the movie. it's not hitchcock's greatest film story-wise, but visually i think it beats the pants off almost all of the others. what a feast! the film was shot in quebec ~ so not surprisingly, the exterior shots in particular are amazing!
if you want to see a whole slew of stills from the movie, check out this great site ~ it's got wonderful shots from all throughout the movie (warning: spoilers!)
it's really too bad about Monty Clift (he's one of those actors you just don't want to read about because his life was just such a mess). so sad. and i suppose equally hard to watch him in a film like this when he was young and still gorgeous (before the car accident). there's a really disheartening extra on the dvd of this in which someone (i forget who) recalls a screening of the movie years later to which Clift showed up and watched from the back. it was clearly hard for him to watch too, the interviewee said, and Clift more or less said as much as well. meh.
i'm looking for a copy of The Heiress but haven't tracked one down yet. seems like it's not available easily, but I'm determined.
: D
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