The next April 29 will be thirty years old without Alfred Hitchcock’s and yet his movies continue to torment us, and images of her come to visit our nightmares in the film. For fans of Sir Hitch this is a golden moment: after The Birds, at the beginning of this year, Monday will arrive in the dining room of the restored Vertigo, in Italy, published under the title The woman who lived twice, the masterpiece with James Stewart and Kim Novak, which, according to the survey of the magazine Sight and Sound on behalf of the British Film Institute is the best movie ever. But not only that, last Thursday, was inaugurated at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, the exhibition Alfred Hitchcock in the films of Universal Pictures, which features 70 photographs taken on the set of the most famous films from rear window to The birds, and Psycho to Marnie, open until march 8, 2020. The exhibition is also the occasion to discover a little-known link between the master of the thrill and the ligurian capital, precisely in Genoa, in fact, Hitchcock made his debut behind the camera, in the city in 1925 he directed some scenes outside of the silent film the labyrinth of The passions.
‘The woman who lived twice’, and an exhibition in Genoa, Hitchcock returns
The exhibition is a journey through the better known films: the extraordinary success de La finestra sul cortile (1954), $ 10 million of proceeds from the story of a photojournalist Jeff who, forced to house from a broken leg uncovers a murder watching for the boredom of their neighbors; the chance of Psycho (1960), one of the most controversial movies of that period did escape the public from the room but nonetheless did a bang at the box office and then The Birds (1963) with three years of preparations for the technical complexity that is required. And finally, Vertigo (1958), a masterpiece of the object of devotion among cinephiles.
