North by Northwest
When I was younger I used to watch movies a lot. I was a really keen cinema-goer and would visit cinema at least once a week. Now I spend every spare moment working and I can’t go out as often as I’d love to. I visit cinemas now and again, instead I tend to watch movies at home.
Yesterday evening I watched a film North by Northwest by Alfred Hitchcock. I wanted to see something uplifting to variate my rather monotonous life during the isolation. What’s more I like American art and movies of the late 1950s. I just feel me very comfortable with them.
As usually, Hitchcock did not disappoint me. The actors were beautiful and the plot was gripping. I just could not take my eyes off the screen for a second. Although the story was at times a bit weird and disturbing, my 9-year-old daughter was also glued to the screed. The most inspiring things in this film were the frames, which were perfectly composed and reminded me paintings by Edward Hopper and, paradoxically, by some Soviet artists of the late 1950s and 60s. I was curious if Russian painters could see movies by Hitchcock then.
Unfortunately, my husband did not enjoy the movie that much. He said he was not really in it, the story was a bit over-the-top for him.
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Your use of "spare moment" is absolutely correct.
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North by Northwest
When I was younger I used to watch movies a lot. I was a really keen cinema-goer and would visit/go to the cinema at least once a week. Now I spend every spare moment most of my time (spare time is when you don’t work; free time, iow) working and I can’t go out as often as I’d love to. I visit/go to cinemas now and again (you could also say “less often” given thay you continue by talking about watching movies at home); (I changed the punctutation here and replace , with a ; ) instead I tend to watch movies at home.
Yesterday evening, I watched a film (not necessary to say the word “film” just go with the title, or you can say “a film called”) North by Northwest by Alfred Hitchcock. I wanted to see something uplifting to variate add some variety/jazz up my rather monotonous life during the isolation. What’s more I like American art and movies of the late 1950s. I just feel me very comfortable with them. (You can also say: feel at ease)
As usual, Hitchcock did not disappoint me. The actors were beautiful and the plot was gripping. I just could not take my eyes off the screen for a second. Although the story was at times a bit weird and disturbing, my 9-year-old daughter was also glued to the screen (Of course I know this is a typo, buts still 😊) The most inspiring things in this film were the frames, which were perfectly composed and reminded me of paintings (remind sb of sth) by Edward Hopper and, paradoxically, by some Soviet artists of the late 1950s and 60s. I was curious if Russian painters could have seen movies by Hitchcock then.
Unfortunately, my husband did not enjoy the movie that much. He said he was not really into it, the story was a bit over-the-top for him.
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North by Northwest
When I was younger, I used to watch movies a lot. I was a really keen cinema-goer and I would visit the cinema at least once a week. Now, I spend every spare moment working and I can’t go out as often as I’d love to. I visit cinemas now and again, but instead, I tend to watch movies at home.
Yesterday evening, I watched a film called 'North by Northwest' by Alfred Hitchcock. I wanted to see something uplifting to variate add some variety to my rather monotonous life during the isolation. What’s more, I like American art and movies of the late 1950s. I just feel me very comfortable with them.
As usually, Hitchcock did not disappoint me. The actors were beautiful and the plot was gripping. I just could not take my eyes off the screen for a second. Although the story was at times a bit weird and disturbing, my 9-year-old daughter was also glued to the screen. The most inspiring things in this film were the frames, which were perfectly composed and reminded me of paintings by Edward Hopper and, paradoxically, by some Soviet artists of the late 1950s and 60s. I was curious to know if Russian painters could've seen movies by Hitchcock then.
Unfortunately, my husband did not enjoy the movie that much. He said he was not really into it, the story was a bit over-the-top for him.
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Thank you for the pleasure of reading your notebook entry :) It is refreshing. It must have been dark days for those early-Soviet-era artists, though I am aware I have no knowledge here, only supposition, so if I suppose stupidly please forgive me. I did stumble on one more link you might like (I'm a long-time Hitchcock admirer) . (Oh, and you left out Repin and Kandinsky, the revolutionary Stravinsky, and no doubt many others. We all owe so much to Eisenstein ... ) https://artuk.org/discover/stories/art-matters-podcast-how-alfred-hitchcock-created-artful-suspense
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Thank you very much for reading and for giving me such useful links Michael! It would be very interesting to think about Russian influence on the art of Hopper or Hitchcock. As far as I know it was Russian art of the 1920s and early 30s that had inspired many artists and cinematographers all over the world (Vertov, Pudovkin, Eisenstein). But in the 1950s Soviet art was not that sharp. Some outstanding movies were made in the late 50s, but the painting was in a profound crisis. Soviet painters were often inspired by the films of Italian neorealism. But I have never heard if they had watched movies by Hitchcock. Those were the years of the Cold War, so the cultural exchanged was rather weak.
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