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Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner

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Filmy words man. Buster Keaton, Hitchcock, postwar British film, Ealing, Basil Dearden, Hawks, Wyler, Bogart, Kubrick, Bond, Scorsese. HITCHOLOGY: A FILM-BY-FILM GUIDE TO THE STYLE AND THEMES OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK out now: neilalcock.com/hitchology

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Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · Aug 13

To mark Alfred Hitchcock’s 126th birthday, here’s the Vertigo essay from my book HITCHOLOGY: A Film-by-Film Guide to the Style and Themes of Alfred Hitchcock. Try before you buy! (Although trying is not an essential pre-requisite to buying)

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A ★★★★★ review of Vertigo (1958)

To celebrate Alfred Hitchcock’s 126th birthday, here’s the Vertigo essay from my book HITCHOLOGY: A Film-by-Film Guide to the Style and Themes of Alfred Hitchcock. You can find links to buy the book H...

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Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · 6d

Was excited for Radiohead x Nosferatu but it didn't really work for me. Often too on-the-nose with the syncing, so loud as to be a distraction from the story, and inexplicable posterisation effects that make Nozzo look like he's less into the blood of the innocent than big bowls of Ready Brek

Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · 8d

Why does an unstoppable killing machine flinch like a baby when it bashes down its victims' doors? Scared of a bit of flying woodwork are you diddums, ah bless

Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · 8d

Why yes, this IS also a convenient opportunity for me to plug the Hitchcock podcast I did with the Picturehouses team, which I'll just casually leave here:

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Hitchcock Season Special | Picturehouse | The Love Of Cinema

Hope Hopkinson talks to Neil Alock, film critic and author of Hitchology, and Rose Butler, Picturehouse Film Programmer, about the new blockbuster ReDiscover season: Hitchcock, coming to your local Pi...

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Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · 8d

Seeing Hitchcock's Sabotage at a picture house (literally a Picturehouse) next week like it's 1936, absolute madness. You too could be watching great old Hitchcock films at a cinema RIGHT NOW!* www.picturehouses.com/blog/hitchcock

*probably not RIGHT NOW, depends what time you're reading this

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Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · 8d

We be Hillin'

Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · 14d

Had a great chat with @hopeylivliv.bsky.social and Rose Butler from Picturehouses about their current season of Hitchcock belters and bangers. Available on pods of all shapes and sizes, but here's one: picturehouse.podbean.com/e/hitchcock-...

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Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · 14d

I am only ever interested in Bond gossip if Baz is reporting it. The news is there is no news, new Bond is 3 years away (which would make it a 7-year gap between films, the longest ever), calm down everyone.

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Denis Villeneuve To Start Casting For An “Unknown” Brit Actor For ‘Bond 26’ When He Completes ‘Dune: Part Three’ — Breaking Baz

Deadline goes undercover to reveal the latest on James Bond casting, including the expected nationality, look and gender of the actor.

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Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · 25d

Lots of you are still on X. Why?

Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 25d

The owner of and absolute unquestionable algorithm controller of a preferred communications channel of the UK Government calling for violence and the overthrow of the Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Elon Musk addresses the ‘unite the kingdom’ march crowd via video link – UK politics live

Met Police believe 110,000 people attending rally, with one group in Whitehall throwing projectiles at officers

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Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · Sep 6

Talking 'cock again in the new issue of Picturehouse Recommends magazine. A season of Hitchy delights is coming to a Picturehouse near you soon!

Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · Sep 1

There are enough James Bond films

MI6 - Home of James Bond @mi6hq.bsky.social · Aug 31

What is your most controversial James Bond opinion?

(These may be discussed in a future podcast)

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Dave Williams @skirwingle.bsky.social · Aug 30

Work with Hitchcock was fruitful for Benny,
Who scored loads of his movies, but then he
Really wasn't that certain
About doing Torn Curtain
And thereafter he didn't score any.

Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · Aug 30

An hour of Bernard Herrmann on this week's Sound of Cinema. Why does his work give us the shivers? All the analysis you need at 4pm on BBC Radio 3 & BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · Aug 30

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ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a smile on his face .

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Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · Aug 29

I genuinely read this BFI film listing three times in slack-jawed disbelief before I realised it says "fraudulence" and not "flatulence"

Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · Aug 25

Happy Bank Holiday Monday to all who celebrate correctly

Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · Aug 21

Confirmation that @marghjenkin.bsky.social's Rose Of Nevada will screen at the LFF in October 👏

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Official Competition films announced for 69th BFI London Film Festival

Ten titles showcasing bold, inventive and distinctive filmmaking compete for Best Film at the 2025 BFI London Film Festival Awards.

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Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · Aug 18

What's your favourite Terence Stamp film? Mine will always be D-Day at White House

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Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · Aug 14

Happy Alma Reville Day to all who celebrate

Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · Aug 13

More info and links to buy here: neilalcock.com/hitchology/

HITCHOLOGY

My book HITCHOLOGY: A Film-by-Film Guide to the Style and Themes of Alfred Hitchcock is now available to buy from the following retailers (click the logo to visit the store): Please consider suppor…

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Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · Aug 13

A ★★★★★ review of Vertigo (1958)

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Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · Aug 12

Cinema programmers! Here's a double-bill of 1940s British PoW movies for you: start with Basil Dearden's The Captive Heart (all about men, a little earnest) and follow up with Frank Launder's Two Thousand Women (all about women, great fun). Both terrific, both criminally underseen. You're welcome x

Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · Aug 12

Stumbled across this comedy-drama in my current binge of wartime / postwar British films and I swear to God I cannot recommend it highly enough. Funny, suspenseful and saucy, with a scene where a Scottish woman punches a Nazi woman out cold, which beats anything I ever saw Captain America do.

Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · Aug 11

Also bagged a sweet pile of British beauties from ye olde days. God bless @cexofficial.bsky.social and all who sell this kind of stuff to them.

Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · Aug 11

Cheeky mini haul from the excellent David's Bookshop in Letchworth, including @helenlohara.bsky.social's newie 🙌

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STUDIOCANAL @studiocanal.com · Aug 11

Passport to Prosperity – Toasting British Postwar Cinema 🇬🇧

At a time when the nation was exhausted and traumatised, cinema provided a romantic, thrilling and affordable escape. As featured in a @letterboxd.social article, writer @mrneilalcock.bsky.social spotlights this innovative period:

Passport to Prosperity: How British Cinema Processed the Post-War Years

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Neil Alcock, HITCHOLOGY author and former hair owner @mrneilalcock.bsky.social · Aug 11

The lovely guys at @studiocanal.com asked me to write about postwar British cinema and the films they're showing at the #LocarnoFilmFestival! These movies are 🔥, catch them if you can

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Passport to Prosperity: How British Cinema Processed the Post-War Years

A story on Letterboxd.

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