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Doc ADRC Hitchcock L’Adrc, Carlotta Films, présentent Alfred SO BRITISH ! Hitchcock Linden Travers et Cecil Parker. Une femme disparaît 1926, Royaume-Uni, 73 min, muet, Noir & Blanc, 1.33 THE LODGER The Lodger – A Story of the London Fog Visa en attente Un film d’Alfred Hitchcock Avec Ivor Novello, June, Malcolm Keen, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney Dans le fog nocturne de Londres, un assassin traque les jeunes femmes Scénario Eliot Stannard blondes. Le quartier est en émoi. Sur le qui-vive. Dans la pension de Mme D’après le roman de Jackson, ces meurtres sont justement le sujet de conversation de la soirée. Marie Belloc Lowndes Dans un style largement influencé par l’expressionisme allemand – jusqu’à Image Baron Ventimiglia l’inventivité graphique des intertitres – et traversé d’un rythme percutant qui le Montage Ivor Montagu rapproche des formalistes russes, Alfred Hitchcock réalise l’un des sommets du Produit par Michael Balcon & cinéma muet britannique. Carlyle Blackwell «The Lodger est le premier film dans lequel j’ai tiré profit de ce que j’avais appris en Une production Gainsborough Allemagne. Dans ce film, toute mon approche a été réellement instinctive, c’est la Pictures Ltd. première fois que j’ai exercé mon style propre. En vérité, on peut considérer que The Lodger est mon premier film.» Alfred Hitchcock 1935, Royaume-Uni, 81 min, Noir & Blanc, 1.37, Visa : 11 533 LES 39 MARCHES The 39 Steps Un film d’Alfred Hitchcock Avec Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Un homme recherché pour le meurtre d’une Mata-Hari est poursuivi par Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft un groupe d’espions, mais aussi par la police britannique. Scénario Charles Bennett Considéré comme l’un des films les plus brillants de la période anglaise d’Alfred & Ian Hay Hitchcock, Les 39 marches est aussi celui qui, pour la première fois, réunit tous D’après le roman les éléments qui feront la renommée du maître. Adaptant le roman de John Buchan de John Buchan en n’en retenant que les épisodes essentiels, Hitchcock construit un film où toute Image Bernard Knowles vraisemblance est sacrifiée à la rapidité de l’action, à l’efficacité de la narration et Montage D. N. Twist à l’intelligence elliptique de la mise en scène. Direction artistique O. Werndorff Direction musicale Louis Levy «Ce que j’aime dans Les 39 marches, c’est la soudaineté des transitions (...). La Une production Gaumont-British vraisemblance ne m’intéresse pas. C’est ce qu’il y a de plus facile à faire.» Picture Corporation Ltd. Alfred Hitchcock 1937, Royaume-Uni, 80 min, Noir & Blanc, 1.37, Visa : 48 606 JEUNE ET INNOCENT Young and Innocent Un film d’Alfred Hitchcock Avec Nova Pilbeam, Derrick de Marney, Un jeune homme est accusé du meurtre d’une femme, étranglée avec la Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare ceinture qui semble provenir de son imperméable. Scénario Charles Bennett, Resté célèbre pour son extraordinaire plan-séquence qui nous dévoile le coupable Edwin Greenwood à la fin du film – plan refait plus tard dansLes Enchaînés – Jeune et innocent & Anthony Armstrong concentre le plaisir exacerbé et le génie du cinéma d’Hitchcock. D’après le roman «Je vais vous donner, à propos de Jeune et innocent, l’exemple d’un principe de de Josephine Tey suspense. Il s’agit de donner au public une information que les personnages de l’his- Image Bernard Knowles toire ne connaissent pas encore ; grâce à ce principe, le public en sait plus long que Montage Charles Frend les héros et il peut se poser avec plus d’intensité la question : «comment la situation Direction artistique Alfred Junge va-t-elle pouvoir se résoudre ?» Direction musicale Louis Levy Alfred Hitchcock Une production Gaumont-British Picture Corporation Ltd. 1938, Royaume-Uni, 97 min, Noir & Blanc, 1.37, Visa : 12 660 UNE FEMME DISPARAÎT The Lady Vanishes Un film d’Alfred Hitchcock Avec Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Witty, Dans un train quittant un pays d’Europe centrale, une femme prétend Cecil Parker que Miss Froy, une vieille dame, a disparu. Pourtant, les autres voyageurs Scénario Sidney Gilliatt nient l’avoir jamais vue. & Frank Launder La mise en scène d’Hitchcock interroge les notions de doute et de réalité, ici sur un D’après le roman mode comique, inaugurant une étude du psychisme humain qui mènera à de nom- The Wheel Spins breux autres grands films commeLa Maison du Docteur Edwardes ou Psychose. d’Ethel Lina White Image Jack Cox «Tourner des films, pour moi, cela veut dire d’abord, et avant tout, raconter une his- Montage R. E. Dearing toire. Cette histoire peut être invraisemblable mais elle ne doit jamais être banale. Son S. Wiles Il est préférable qu’elle soit dramatique et humaine. Le drame, c’est une vie dont on Direction musicale Louis Levy a éliminé les moments ennuyeux. La seule question que je me pose est de savoir si Une production Gainsborough l’installation de la caméra à tel ou tel endroit donnera à la scène sa force maxima.» Pictures Ltd. Alfred Hitchcock Robert Donat (Richard Hannay), Madeleine Carroll (Pamela). Les 39 marches L’Adrc propose, en collaboration avec Serge Chauvin (maître de conférence à l’Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) des soirées spéciales Hitchcock (période anglaise). Ces interventions en salle sont proposées à des conditions aménagées. L’Adrc pourra prendre en charge les frais de déplacement de l’intervenant. En savoir plus : [email protected] Repères chronologiques 1899. Naissance le 13 août 1899 à Leytonstone, banlieue de Londres, de parents épiciers en gros. Il reçoit une éducation dans un collège de Jésuites. 1920. Il fait ses débuts à la Famous Players Lasky de Londres Voici les plus aimés, et peut-être mais ils sont ouverts à l’aventure, à la rencontre, et cela comme dessinateur d’intertitres. les plus heureux, des films anglais d’Hitchcock. Ceux suffit. De même, les amoureux deJeune et innocent Il travaille ainsi sur de nom- qui, avant sa carrière hollywoodienne, ont affermi sa ont une approche presque ludique et distanciée de leur breux films muets. 1922. Il tente de produire et de situation, propice aux péripéties feuilletonnesques les Alfred Hitchcock réputation de maître et fixé la perception générale de la réaliser son premier film Number( Hitchcock touch : intrigue criminelle à rebondissements plus échevelées mais aussi les plus malicieusement Thirteen) mais le projet est dont la vitesse se substitue à la crédibilité, identifica- convenues : poursuite au travers des voies ferrées, hé- abandonné. tion à un protagoniste victime des apparences (le faux roïne suspendue au bord du gouffre. Dans Une femme 1922-1925. Il est engagé comme disparaît, la vitre du wagon restaurant sur laquelle Miss assistant metteur en scène et coupable ou la fausse folle), digressions humoristiques, scénariste. clichés transformés en clins d’œil, érotisme affleurant Froy trace un nom voué à l’effacement est évidemment 1925. Son premier film, heT sans cesse. une métaphore de l’écran de cinéma où évoluent des Pleasure Garden, est bien ac- ombres, peut-être illusoires mais aux effets bien réels. cueilli par la presse. On y voit aussi Hitchcock canaliser 1926. The Lodger. On voit dans une forme classique, linéaire Et l’intrigue criminelle peut en cacher d’ores et déjà apparaître certains et soucieuse de la primauté du On sait qu’Alfred Hitch- une autre : si les personnages rêvent éléments constitutifs de son d’aventure, celle-ci est d’abord cinéma : les femmes blondes, les récit, les audaces formelles de sa cock, depuis The Lod- menottes, un homme accusé à période muette et de ses pre- ger, dans lequel il fi- amoureuse. Dans Les 39 marches – tort, l’usage appuyé de la méta- miers films parlants Chantage( gura « pour meubler où les hommes fétichisent lingerie et phore... et Meurtre surtout) : le hurle- l’écran », a pris l’habi- menottes –, la suggestion d’un amour 1929. D’abord présenté dans illicite (dans la scène du laitier puis une version muette, Blackmail ment d’une femme découvrant tude d’apparaître dans (Chantage) sort ensuite dans une un cadavre devient sifflement de chacun de ses films. de l’épouse écossaise frustrée) sert version parlante. Désormais, tous locomotive ou cri de mouette ; la Dans The Lodger, il figure pro- d’alibi à l’homme accusé d’assassinat. les films seront parlants. morte dont les révélations hantent bablement deux fois, derrière un Et si c’était l’inverse ? Comme le 1934. L’Homme qui en savait suggère le crime passionnel qui ouvre trop avec Peter Lorre rencontre le héros (Les 39 marches) n’est bureau dans une salle de rédac- un grand succès. Il en fera un pas simple voix off mais visage tion et parmi des badauds qui re- Jeune et innocent, le véritable en- remake aux Etats-Unis. en surimpression. Chaque détail gardent une arrestation. Dans Les jeu est d’abord le désir : question de 1935. Les 39 marches peut devenir fonctionnel (les 39 marches, il passe dans la rue. vie ou de mort, qui fait des victimes 1937. Jeune et innocent mais qui sauve aussi les personnages Le thème de l’innocent accusé à lunettes de l’avocat dans Jeune Dans Jeune et innocent, il est un tort revient à nouveau dans ces et innocent), fût-il aussi impal- photographe maladroit à la sortie et leur permet de devenir adultes. deux films. 1938. Une femme disparaît pable qu’une mélodie (dans Les d’un tribunal. Dans Une femme Le jeu est donc sérieux, jusque dans 39 marches comme Une femme disparaît, il passe sur le quai de la 1939. La Taverne de la les conventions du genre : les agents Jamaïque marque la fin de sa pé- disparaît), aussi humain qu’un gare de Londres.
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