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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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I'll ask at the next board meeting. We have a Blu-ray of it in the UK so I imagine it's just a matter of time!
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Wonderful news, thank you!
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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In the same slot on Wednesday is Colonel Blimp, with I Was Monty's Double on Thursday. It's War Week at the Beeb! 😬
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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That crackersness in a nutshell:
October 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Thanks for this hot tip! 🙏
October 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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I did wonder if that was the case, but Apple would never say so. Fingers crossed! 🤞
October 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Seems wild to me that Scorsese, probably the director who's done the most for film preservation, has one of his films locked away like this where Apple could just remove it at any point. Obviously part of the financing deal - it's that or your movie doesn't get made - but this is some Mafia shit.
October 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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An eternal favourite
October 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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😂
October 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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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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picturehouse.podbean.com/e/hitchcock-...

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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...
picturehouse.podbean.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM