Alfred Hitchcock: Across the Decades

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Alfred Hitchcock: Across the Decades a joint project of Take-Up and the Riverview Theater

The Master of Suspense returns to the Twin Cities with ten features, playing at the Riverview and the Trylon microcinema. We'll traverse four decades of Hitchcock filled with spy dramas, psychological thrillers and even his one and only screwball comedy. The series begins with Hitchcock's British movies, closes with his American standards, and spans from black-and-white to Technicolor. You'll see the full range of Sir Alfred's technique and his many obsessions....

All shows at the Riverview play on Monday nights at 7:30pm. Admission is $8 or $25 for a 5 film pass (up to two uses per screening, passes my not be used for advance tickets).

To purchase advance tickets, click on the title below of the film you would like to buy tickets for.

Apr 5 - Psycho (1960)
“Mother’s not quite herself today.” After trysting with married lover John Gavin, Janet Leigh embezzles 40 grand and heads South of the Border, but stops for a rest at taxidermy buff Anthony Perkins’ Bates Motel, where guests check in, but... Hitchcock’s legendary blackly comic shocker vaulted its title into the non-Freudian mainstream and turned comfy shower stalls into places of terror — aided by Bernard Herrmann’s shrieking all-strings score.

Apr 12 - Notorious (1946)
Reluctant spy Ingrid Bergman complains “He wants to marry me” to lover/FBI contact Cary Grant, after Nazi fellow traveler Claude Rains falls a little too hard for her undercover activities. Painful sexual politics underscore the high tension set pieces of suspense.

Apr 19 - Marnie (1964)
What’s wealthy publisher Sean Connery to do when he finds employee Tippi Hedren is a compulsive klepto? Why, marry her, of course. But the real surprises start on the wedding night.

Apr 26 - Lifeboat (1944)
Grand Hotel in miniature, as after a sinking at sea, spoiled journalist Tallulah Bankhead, left-wing seaman John Hodiak, right-wing mogul Henry Hull, et al. — plus mysterious Walter Slezak — find themselves in the title conveyance, with Hitchcock’s camera never moving outside the boat. From an original script by John Steinbeck, with the director’s most challenging cameo.

May 3 - The Birds (1963)
“The Birds is Coming!” Bratty playgirl Tippi Hedren, after exchanging barbs with lawyer Rod Taylor in a Frisco pet shop, follows him to Bodega Bay, with a gift of — ulp! — lovebirds... and then nature turns. Hitchcock’s tour de force of terror from the mundane includes a barrage of optical tricks and a completely music-less track of electronic sounds supervised by Bernard Herrmann.

Watch the rest of this series at the Trylon microcinema (3258 Minnehaha Ave S) on Friday and Saturday nights:
Shadow of a Doubt(April 2nd & 3rd), The Lady Vanishes(April 9th & 10th), Mr and Mrs Smith(April 16th & 17th), The 39 Steps(April 23rd & 24th), and The Trouble With Harry(April 30th & May 1st).

More information and advance tickets can be found at take-up.org