27 November 2016

Hitchcock Presents Splendid Everyday Mysteries

During last months I've seen 27 episodes of very First Season (only twelve to go...)

Here's my personal estimation of which episodes give life to the most marvellous ideas

Also mention the main psychological state I believe is an essential key for each [if it's already obvious - see it as a reminder!]



1. TRIGGERS IN LEASH (episode 3)

with Ellen Corby

by Don Medford and Richard Carr
based on Allan Vaughan Elston

key state : intervention



2. THE CASE OF MR. PELHAM (episode 10)

with Tom Ewell

by Alfred Hitchcock and Francis Cockrell
based on Anthony Armstrong

key state : identity /identities



3. INTO THIN AIR (episode 5)

with Patricia Hitchcock

by Don Medford and Marian Cockrell

key state : illusion



4. BREAKDOWN (episode 7)

with Joseph Cotten

by Alfred Hitchcock and Francis Cockrell
based on Louis Pollock

key state : helplessness



5. AND SO DIED RIABOUCHINSKA (episode 20)

with Claude Rains

by Robert Stevenson
based on Ray Bradbury

key state : consciousness



6. SANTA CLAUS AND THE TENTH AVENUE KID (episode 12)

with Barry Fitzgerald

by Don Weis
based on Margaret Cousins

key state : responsibility



7. THE DERELICTS (episode 19)

with Robert Newton

by Robert Stevenson
based on Terence Maples

key state : karma



8. A BULLET FOR BALDWIN (episode 14)

with John Qualen

by Jus Addiss
based on Joseph Ruscoll

key state : directedness



9. PREMONITION (episode 2)

with John Forsythe

by Robert Stevens and Harold Swanton

key state : avoidance



10. WHODUNIT (episode 26)

with Alan Napier

by Francis M. Cockrell
based on C.B. Gilford

key state : synchronization



11. DON'T COME BACK ALIVE (episode 4)

with Sidney Blackmer & Virginia Gregg

by Robert Stevenson and Robert Dennis

key state : expectation



12. THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN (episode 25)

with Estelle Winwood

by Robert Stevenson
based on Jerry Hackady

key state : nonchalance



13. THE LONG SHOT (episode 9)

with Peter Lawford

by Robert Stevenson and Harold Swanton

key state : substitute



14. THE BIG SWITCH (episode 15)

with Sam Dunleavy

by Don Weis
based on Cornell Woolrich

key state : control /uncontrol



15. THE OLDER SISTER (episode 17)

with Joan Lorring

by Robert Stevens
based on Lillian de la Torre

key state : saving (someone from)



16. SAFE CONDUCT (episode 21)

with Jacques Bergerac

by Juss Addiss

key state : trust



17. SHOPPING FOR DEATH (episode 18)

with Jo Van Fleet

by Robert Stevens
based on Ray Bradbury

key state : madness



18. BACK FOR CHRISTMAS (episode 23)

with John Williams

by Alfred Hitchcock
based on John Collier

key state : (un)predictiveness



19. HELP WANTED (episode 27)

with John Qualen featuring Lorne Greene

by James Neilson
based on Stanley Ellin

key state : loyalty



20. THE CHENEY VASE (episode 13)

with Darren McGavin

by Robert Stevens

key state : possession



21. REVENGE (episode 1)

with Vera Miles

by Alfred Hitchcock and Francis Cockrell
based on Samuel Blas

key state : delusion



22. THE PERFECT MURDER (episode 24)

with Mildred Natwick

by Robert Stevens
based on Stacy Aumonier

key state : gluttony



23. PLACE OF SHADOWS (episode 22)

with Mark Damon

by Robert Stevens

key state : guilt



24. YOU GOT TO HAVE LUCK (episode 16)

with Marisa Pavan

by Robert Stevens
based on S.R. Ross

key state : (mis)understanding



25. GUILTY WITNESS (episode 11)

with Judith Evelyn

by Robert Stevens
based on Morris Hersham

key state : overkill



26. SALVAGE (episode 6)

with Gene Barry

by Jus Addiss and Richard Carr
based on Fred Freiberger

key state : stupidity



27. OUR COOK'S A TREASURE (episode 8)

with Beulah Bondi

by Robert Stevens and Robert Dennis
based on Dorothy Sayers

key state : (home) blindness








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22 November 2016

Recently seVen seen : shared isolation or isolated relations


in my SnowBlack Movie + Series Spiral

I give from 1 to 7 stars
again by 8 aspects of dwarfs
they become maximum 56 stars





ROOM

by Lenny Abrahamson
based on Emma Donoghue

Canada /Ireland 2015


5 Joy (Happy)

7 Conflict (Grumpy)

4 Thrill (Sneezy)

6 Process (Sleepy)

1 Humour (Dopey)

6 Idea (Doc)

7 Mystery (Bashful)

4 Beauty (SnowWhite)

= 40






LASSIE COME HOME

by Fred M. Wilcox
based on Eric Knight

USA 1943


7 Joy (Happy)

6 Conflict (Grumpy)

3 Thrill (Sneezy)

5 Process (Sleepy)

2 Humour (Dopey)

4 Idea (Doc)

4 Mystery (Bashful)

7 Beauty (SnowWhite)

= 38






BREAKING BAD, season 4

Repeated the beginning
then episodes 5-10 now

created by Vince Gilligan
USA 2011


1 Joy (Happy)

6 Conflict (Grumpy)

7 Thrill (Sneezy)

6 Process (Sleepy)

5 Humour (Dopey)

4 Idea (Doc)

3 Mystery (Bashful)

5 Beauty (SnowWhite)

= 37






THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS

about inuits
in probably northern Canada

by Nicholas Ray
UK /France /Italy 1959

with actors from Mexico and Japan


6 Joy (Happy)

4 Conflict (Grumpy)

3 Thrill (Sneezy)

5 Process (Sleepy)

3 Humour (Dopey)

5 Idea (Doc)

3 Mystery (Bashful)

6 Beauty (SnowWhite)

= 35






EN SOLITAIRE
"TURNING TIDE"

by Christophe Offenstein
with Francois Cluzet

France 2014


2 Joy (Happy)

6 Conflict (Grumpy)

5 Thrill (Sneezy)

6 Process (Sleepy)

3 Humour (Dopey)

5 Idea (Doc)

4 Mystery (Bashful)

2 Beauty (SnowWhite)

= 33






AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES
"AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD"

by Werner Herzog
Germany 1972

about a spanish expedition try to search for El Dorado


1 Joy (Happy)

5 Conflict (Grumpy)

3 Thrill (Sneezy)

6 Process (Sleepy)

2 Humour (Dopey)

3 Idea (Doc)

6 Mystery (Bashful)

6 Beauty (SnowWhite)

= 32






PROFONDO ROSSO
"DEEP RED"

by Dario Argento
Italy 1975


1 Joy (Happy)

4 Conflict (Grumpy)

5 Thrill (Sneezy)

4 Process (Sleepy)

3 Humour (Dopey)

2 Idea (Doc)

6 Mystery (Bashful)

6 Beauty (SnowWhite)

= 31









Below and Above everyone, Weakest And Strongest


TJUVHEDER
"DRIFTERS"

by Peter Grönlund
with Malin Levanon

(including the preceding short film
GLÄNTAN "THE CLEARING")

Sweden 2015


2 Joy (Happy)

7 Conflict (Grumpy)

7 Thrill (Sneezy)

5 Process (Sleepy)

3 Humour (Dopey)

4 Idea (Doc)

1 Mystery (Bashful)

2 Beauty (SnowWhite)

= 31






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07 November 2016

Recent House of Old New Songs

(Re)discoveries during Autumn-Winter

17 pieces through my Symbolical Spaces and Rooms



Roof Top

SNOWBIRD

with Elvis Presley
[by Gene MacLellan]

from Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old) -70

Snowbird comes down early this year
and maybe Anne Murray follows soon



Front Door
feels like a funny fire brigade knocking at

NAUTILUS
Anna Meredith

from Varmints -16



Hallway

MILES FROM NOWHERE
Cat Stevens

from Tea For The Tillerman -70



Kitchen

THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN
(down a shady lane, near the sugar cane)

Burl Ives
from Burl Ives at His Very Best



Workroom

YOU WIN AGAIN
(so little time, doing nothing but compete)

Bee Gees
from E.S.P. -87



Bathroom

THE EMPEROR IN HIS WAR ROOM
(after choosing the ones you think should die,
lying on the hill, crawling over the window sill)

Peter Hammill
without his group, just piano

from In Camera -74



Parlour

EL DORADO part V : THE GRANDCHILDREN OF APES
Marillion

from Fuck Everyone And Run -16



Living TV Room

DAYDREAMING
Radiohead

from A Moon Shaped Pool -16



small extra Wardrobe

SILLY GIRL
Young Rascals

[composed by Cavaliere & Brigati]

from Once Upon a Dream -68



Basement

TREATY
Leonard Cohen

from You Want it Darker -16

(even if his early Dress Rehearsal Rag
is both best and darkest)



Stairway
(up again)


EN HELT NY JUL [ = A COMPLETELY NEW CHRISTMAS]

Amy Diamond
[composed by Robert Habolin]

from En Helt Ny Jul -08



Attic

FARMOR [ = GRANDMOTHER]
Frida Hyvönen

from To The Soul -12



Bedroom

SONG FOR A WINTER'S NIGHT
Gordon Lightfoot

from The Way I Feel -67



Balcony
(of Backyard)


[FANTINE'S DEATH] COME TO ME
(Cosette, the light is fading....)

in LES MISÉRABLES
by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer and more

with Colm Wilkinson & Patti LuPone
from Original London Cast -85



Garden
(frozen)


HOME AGAIN
Carole King

from Tapestry -71



Tool Shed

DRUM BOOGIE

Gene Krupa
co-composed by Roy Eldridge
sung by Irene Daye -41



Cave
(under whole house, deep in earth)


DISTANT SKY
Nick Cave

from Skeleton Tree -16






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