You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast, Rebecca McCallum with special guest film scholar, artist and educator Beth Bullock as they take some bad advice from a friend whilst saunering at the Beefeater Club and travel from New York to Lake Placid to discuss the screwball comedy MR AND MRS SMITH (1941). I was delighted to be joined by such a special guest who is the absolute expert and go-to voice when it comes to this film. In what might be the biggest deep dive ever on the film to date, we cover Hitchcock’s relationship with the incredible Carole Lombard and theorise on what this film tells us about the art of playing, gender roles in marriage and did I mention, the Freudian slit?   So, let the games begin as we bend the rules, take some bad advice from a friend whilst saunering at the Beefeater club and travel from Manhattan to Lake Placid as we press the doorbell of Mr and Mrs Smith! Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on [email protected] Beth is an alumna of the University of Chicago's Cinema and Media Studies Program. She teaches art history, cinema and humanities courses at the City Colleges of Chicago and film studies at Dominican University. She is at work on a chapter tenatively titled 'More Blessed to Give: Trackign the Reception of Alfred Hitchcock's Mr and Mrs Smith (1941)' to be published in a forthcoming Hitchcock anthology. As a freelance photographer, her work as been displayed and published locally around Chicago. She serves on the advisory board of "HitchCon" and has spoken at its yearly conferences. You can find Beth Bullock on the following platforms: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/blbullock77 Twitter @bbullock77 Instagram: @bbullock Visit her website: crackingacademic.wordpress.com  Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin Read Rebecca's Hitchcock's Women series with Moving Pictures Film Club here: ⁠⁠Hitchcock’s Women (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)

You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast Rebecca McCallum with special guest - historian, author, scholar and leader in historic preservation and the study of American architecture -Christine Madrid French-to talk about her must-have book- The Architecture of Suspense-The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock. Christine discusses her fantastic book, how architecture impacts upon our psychology and what she terms ‘the mystical Hitchcock’ as well as sharing insights on key moments and themes relating to architecture in Hitchcock’s films. She also shares EXCLUSIVE!! NEVER DISCUSSED BEFORE FINDINGS in her research relating to the Uncanny Valley and two key locations in Vertigo (1958)-the Legion of Honour and the Empire Hotel. I conclude by putting some listener questions to Christine about architecture in Hitchcock’s films. Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on [email protected] You can find Christine on Twitter @madridfrench and Instagram @madamhistorian and visit her website: madridfrench.com You can purchase her book The Architecture of Suspense-The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock via Amazon or from the store on her website: madridfrench.com/store   Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin Read Rebecca's Hitchcock's Women series with Moving Pictures Film Club here: ⁠⁠Hitchcock’s Women (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)⁠

You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room for a special bonus episode! Have you ever wondered what Alfred Hitchcock might have to say about his films if he were still with us today? Mark Cousins, the award-winning filmmaker behind The Story of Film: An Odyssey, The Eyes of Orson Welles and The Story of Film: A New Generation tackles the question of how Hitchcock’s vast body of work and legacy holds up in today’s society as well as looking at the auteur with a new and radical approach-through the use of his own voice. Yes that’s right, as Hitchcock rewatches his films, we are taken on an odyssey through his career-including his silent films, his work in the 50s and 60s and his later works in the most playful and revealing of ways in Mark’s new documentary My Name is Alfred Hitchcock. Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast Rebecca McCallum as she interviews the director and writer to discuss his new documentary MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK. MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK is in cinemas and on demand from 21st July and you can visit the website www.alfred-hitchcock.film for more information. Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on [email protected] Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin

You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room for a bonus episode marking the beginning of a new series entitled Hitch Takes! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast Rebecca McCallum as she explores the role and readings of Midge in Vertigo. Listen to Rebecca analyse each of Midge scenes, comparing and contrasting her with Madeline and Judy, and examining her relationship with Scottie. This is the first Hitch Take episode so please get in touch and let me know what you think!   Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on [email protected] Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin     References Vertigo (1958)        Vertigo BFI Classics -Charles Barr Fatal Resemblances: Cross Mapping Hitchcock’s Vertigo with Nabokov’s Lolita, (Barbara Straumann) in Haunted by Vertigo Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Then and Now (Edited by Sidney Gottlieb and Donal Martin) The Women Who Knew Too Much (Tania Modleski) Vertigo (1958), Alternate Ending - YouTube ‘The Look’, Narrativity and the Female Spectator in Vertigo. (Karen Hollinger) The Past, The Present And The Perverse: VERTIGO As A Possession Film - Fangoria HITCHCOCK’S WOMEN: Constructing and Resurrecting the Ideal Woman – A Portrait of Judy Barton in VERTIGO (1958) – PART I (movingpicturesfilmclub.com) HITCHCOCK’S WOMEN: Constructing and Resurrecting the Ideal Woman – A Portrait of Judy Barton in VERTIGO (1958) – PART II (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)

You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast Rebecca McCallum with special guest -New York Playwright and Scholar Elisabeth Karlin as they prepare to travel from Marrakesh all the way to London to analyse and dissect Hitchcock’s only remake- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956).  Listen to find out which critical study of Hitchcock Elisabeth persuaded her father to publish which she was also involved in proof reading and amongst other things we discuss-marriage, gender, what is in a name, that troubling sedation scene and redefining the Hitchcock Blonde. Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on [email protected] Elisabeth is a playwright in New York City who also writes about film. Her work on Hitchcock includes being a frequent contributor to the Alfred Hitchcock Geek Blog and her essay on the heroines of Hitchcock appears in the most recent Hitchcock Annual. She serves on the advisory board of "HitchCon" and has spoken at its yearly conferences. You can find her on Twitter @ElisabethKarlin and Instagram @elisbath.karlin Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin Read Rebecca's Hitchcock's Women series with Moving Pictures Film Club here: ⁠⁠Hitchcock’sWomen (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)⁠ References The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)     Guillermo del Toro on The Man Who Knew Too Much-Criterion Collection Guillermo del Toro on The Man Who Knew Too Much - YouTube Hitchcock’s Heroines (Caroline Young)   Hitchcock Revisited (Robin Wood) The Making of The Man Who Knew Too Much The Man Who Knew Too Much BFI Classic (Murray Pomerance) Interview: Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut (1962) Beyond the Blond the Dynamic Heroines of Hitchcock (Elisabeth Karlin) Breaking Silence Through Song-Jo McKenna in The Man Who Knew Too Much (Rebecca McCallum) The Man Who Knew Too Much-The Thriller Master’s Only Remake (Cinephilia and Beyond) ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’: The Thriller Master’s Only Remake • Cinephilia & Beyond (cinephiliabeyond.org)