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Rebecca, Mrs. Danvers, and Me

By Matt Levine April 6, 2023 April 7, 2023 The Hitchcock Film Festival

Judith Anderson looks to the heavens with an expression of fear and awe while a bedroom burns around her in the film Rebecca.

|Dylan Walker| “Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again.” As the camera passes through a gate and roves through the charred Manderley estate in the opening shot of the 1940 classic Rebecca, I am suddenly taken back in time as if I were Joan Fontaine’s narrator. Continue reading

In the Empty Spaces: Rebecca Boils with Things Translucent, Unseen, or Gone Forever

By Matt Levine April 6, 2023 April 6, 2023 The Hitchcock Film Festival

Mrs. Danvers looms in stark silhouette behind a sheer curtain, framed by the lit windows in the background.

|Jake Rudegeair| Float down the overgrown drive, supernatural dreamer, until you come upon the “desolate shell” of Manderley. This classic haunted house holds up the deceits and revelations of Rebecca, Hitchcock’s Best Picture winner from 1940, based on the novel by… Continue reading

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Rebecca, Mrs. Danvers, and Me

In the Empty Spaces: Rebecca Boils with Things Translucent, Unseen, or Gone Forever

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