A work in progress. Objective: to study films comparatively, in motion. Looking at up to four films at a time for confluences of figure, composition, and timing/rhythm.
Some of the confluences are immediately obvious, while others take more time to unfold. For example, with Hitchcock's Psycho and Vertigo playing side by side, note how the male characters, Norman and Scottie, both lean back at the same time (just after Norman's "they cluck their thick tongues" line). Now watch for a couple of minutes, and then see how the two female characters, Marion and Madeleine/Judy, exit from view at the same time, and in the same direction. Left alone, the two men find their way into a secluded chamber adjacent to the spaces now occupied by the women, and then—at the same time—they peep. Is there a Hitchcockian clock (Hitchclock) guiding both films?
Films included (in order of appearance):
Rear Window
The Wizard of Oz
Random Harvest
La Jetée
Psycho
Vertigo
The 39 Steps (1935)
Game of Death
Gone with the Wind
Nostalghia
Blow Up
Un Chien Andalou
Man with a Movie Camera
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Peeping Tom
Back to the Future
M
Barton Fink
Young Frankenstein
Star Wars
Kill Bill: Volume 1
The Shining
Run Lola Run
Timecrimes
Rushmore
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