Evan Hunter wrote the screenplay, Tippi Hendren and Rod Taylor play the leads - and the film offer fantastic contributions from effect wizard Albert Whitlock.
On this track we cover:
- The original short story
- Production stories
- Visual effects
- The Hitchock style and legacy
- The Tippi Hendren controvercy
DOWNLOAD
Download the mp3 file here. Link.
Subscribe to the commentary podcast in iTunes. Link.
STATS
Participants: David Bjerre and Dennis Rosenfeld.
Day of recording: August 16th, 2012.
Version: NTSC DVD or Bluray
Movie runtime: 1:59:28
SCREENSHOTS
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| Who did YOU have to sleep with to get this part? |
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| The view of the bay, courtesy of Mr. Whitlock. |
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| She's prettier than the last one your brought home. |
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| Elegant composition, let's give credit to cinematographer Robert Burks. |
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| You would need alcohol too, to make that backdrop look convincing. |
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| The title characters take a break. |
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| Those odd kinda-still-frames-but-not-really. |
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| Mr. Whitlock paint the God's eye view. Appropriate. |
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| Another elegant composition. |
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| That final haunting shot. |
LITERATURE
Cinefantastique: Volume 10, No. 2
- The Making of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, article by Kyle B. Counts.
Hitchcock: A Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock, by Francois Truffaut.
The Birds And Other Stories, by Daphne Du Maurier.
AUDIO/VIDEO
All About The Birds, directed by Laurent Bouzereau.
The Trouble with Marnie, directed by Laurent Bouzereau.
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style, directed by Gary Leva.
DVD extras.
LINKS
The Matte Paintings of The Birds. Link.
Matte Shot blog: History of the World. Link.
Matte Shot blog: The Hindenburg. Link.
Every Hitchcock Cameo Ever. Link.
Variety review. Link.
NY Times review. Link.
The Birds - BFI Film Classics, by Camille Paglia. Link.
- an unintentionally hilarious attempt to analyse the film.
IMDb. Link.
Wikipedia. Link.
CORRECTIONS
Dennis accidentially said that The Blair Witch Project was from 1994. It's from 1999.
