Well, that’s another Christmas and New Year done and dusted. It passed over very smoothly and peacefully. The highlights included quality time with the family, relaxing and not having to rush about for a while.I even spent time in front of the TV. One of my favourite programmes was Jonathan Creek. I have never seen it before, but after watching the Christmas special I definitely want to see more. JC is called in to solve unexplained events in a vast Gothic mansion following several disappearances!I also watched one of my favourite Hitchcock films – Rear Window. This is a very clever film; James Stewart has broken his leg and whilst recovering spends his time looking out of the window overlooking the back of his neighbours flats. The whole film takes place either in the room of James Stewart or overlooking the back windows of the other apartments.Hitchcock liked making hard work for himself. For example, in Lifeboat the whole film takes place in a lifeboat! Where as Rope runs for approximately 70 minutes and was made in 7 takes, each lasting 10 minutes. This caused many problems; the cast forgetting theirs lines in the ninth minute so the whole take had to be done again. And at first the furniture could be heard being moved about during the take. So again the whole ten minutes had to be re-filmed.

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