Capital Celluloid 2017 - Day 290: Fri Oct 20

North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.10pm


This film, perhaps Alfred Hitchcock's most perfectly realised Hollywood movie, is on an extended re-release at BFI Southbank. (Note the 4K restoration will only be shown in NFT1 and NFT3).

Chicago Reader review:
Cary Grant, a martini-sodden advertising director, awakes from a middle-class daydream into an underworld nightmare when he's mistaken for a secret agent (1959). A great film, and certainly one of the most entertaining movies ever made, directed by Alfred Hitchcock at his peak. With Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, and Leo G. Carroll.
Dave Kehr

Here (and above) is the original trailer.

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