The Silent Movie Theatre
611 N Fairfax Ave
323.655.2510
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The Lodger
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2007 (8pm)
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- Price
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$10
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The Lodger is Hitchcock's silent blueprint for his later loud Hermann-scored magnum opuses. The film's setup — an innocent individual running from a malicious, media-spawned web of hysteria and suspicion — is classic. When a handsome mystery man rents a room from Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, the couple begins to fear that their boarder is actually a serial killer on the prowl in London. Spinning The Lodger as a German expressionist mock-up of menacing camera angles and shadowy silhouettes, Hitchcock makes up for the big-studio storytelling with first-rate tension.
