Posts Tagged ‘ Cary Grant ’

Stand and Deliver

Jul 12th, 2008 | By Rick | Category: Alfred Hitchcock, Analysis and Comment, Great Clips

Watching Wong Kar Wai’s My Blueberry Nights, I got to thinking about what David Bordwell and others have called the “Classical Hollywood Style.” It refers to a collection of techniques or rules that work together to enable smooth, unobtrusive film-making that does not call attention to itself.
Here’s a scene from Hitchcock’s North by Northwest [...]