Johan Grimonprez: Double Take (2008)
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Still from Double Take, 2008 Courtesy of Johan Grimonprez
A hit of the 53rd London Film Festival 2009, Belgian artist and filmmaker Johan Grimonprez uses an assemblage of TV and newsreel material to muse on Alfred Hitchcock’s unique persona and humour, holding up his legendary films of the late 1950s and early 1960s against the climate of Bomb-era political anxiety. The film plays on Hitchcock’s preoccupation with doubles and even features him meeting his own doppelgänger. Grimonprez achieved international acclaim with his film essay, Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, which premiered at Documenta X in 1997.
FREE FILM Buy tickets for any three of these films at Tyneside Cinema: Up and Out; Double Take; King Coal or The Lives of Energy and the fourth will be FREE*
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