Caesarea Nights are Here Again (for the Seventh Year!) – Movies, Music, and Food
Under the Stars
This Year – Alfred Hitchcock’s Films
July is approaching and with it the Caesarea Nights – four magical cinema evenings at the most beautiful place in Israel, the Caesarea Harbor.
This year all the “Nights” will be devoted to the classical movies of Afred Hitchcock, considered one of the greatest film directors, who succeeded in enchanting both viewers and critics.
On four consecutive Wednesdays suspense classics will be shown on a wide screen under the stars, with a pleasant sea breeze and a magnificent view of the antiquities.
In addition to the movies, the entire harbor will don a Hitchcock atmosphere, with music from the films and real-size figures, in tribute to the women in his movies. In addition, the seaside promenade will be dotted with cafes, bars, art stalls and food stalls.
The following movies will be shown:
July 16 – Psycho
July 23 – Vertigo
July 30 – The Man Who Knew Too Much
August 6 – Rear Window
Caesarea Nights at the Caesarea Harbor
Entrance from 7 PM; films will begin at 9 PM.
Adult admission: NIS 25
Child admission: NIS 15
Plenty of free parking.
For details please call - *6550
Additional information is available on the website:
www.caesarea.comInformation on the movies:
July 16, 2008 – Psycho, filmed in 1960
Starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh
Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) feels that she deserves more than a boyfriend who is paying alimony to his ex-wife and has no money to marry her.
When her boss asks her to deposit 40 thousand dollars in the bank she decides to run away, meet her lover, and begin a new life.
At the motel where she decides to spend the night her plans are thwarted. The strange young proprietor of the motel (Anthony Perkins) enters her life and contributes the most famous murder and horror scene in the history of cinema.
Countless have been used to analyze, decipher, praise, and explain this scene, dozens of films have cited it, and its magic refuses to dissipate.
The horrific murder occurs completely in the minds of the viewers, as no knife is actually seen to plunge into the woman’s body.
This scene is the ultimate demonstration of the power of cinematic editing and of the genius of a master capable of “engineering” the human mind and using it to produce real terror.
July 23, 2008 – Vertigo, filmed in 1958
Starring James Stewart and Kim Novak
A police detective suffering from vertigo is hired by a friend to follow his wife. She jumps to her death from a tower to his very eyes but due to his vertigo he cannot prevent her suicide. The grief-stricken detective, who has fallen in love with his friend’s wife, later meets a woman who looks surprisingly similar to the woman who committed suicide and the desperate detective decides to investigate, despite his shaky mental state. As in all Hitchcock’s films, the plot serves as a means of examining the human soul, as well as issues of identity, voyeurism, and stimulating fears.
In 1996 this work of art received a very profound technical renovation and facelift – so much so that questions were raised concerning copyright ethics and the similarity between the improved version and Hitchcock’s original.
July 30, 2008
The Man Who Knew Too Much, filmed in 1956
Starring James Stewart and Doris Day
The story of an innocent couple (Doris Day and James Stewart) who in the midst of an exotic vacation in Morocco become entangled in international intrigues and political murder designed to occur in London. In order to ensure their silence their young daughter is kidnapped and these innocent people find themselves involved in extreme situations, as usual in Hitchcock’s movies. The viewers are enthralled by a magical mixture of blood curdling suspense on the one hand, macabre humor on the other, the entire story presented in exquisite and precise cinematic language.
Particularly memorable is the wait for the cymbals in the famous climax scene at the Albert Hall in London, as well as the famous hit song ‘Que Sera Sera’… This version starring Doris Day and James Stewart is the second version of a Hitchcock film of the same name produced in Britain in 1934.
August 6, 2008 – Rear Window, filmed in 1954
Starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly
James Stewart plays a newspaper photographer confined to his wheelchair due to a broken leg. From his room in Greenwich Village he obsessively follows events in his neighbors’ homes. When he suspects that a crime is being committed in one of the flats he shares his suspicions with his girlfriend who wishes to marry him (Grace Kelly). When she understands that only by passing to the other side will she be able to win his heart, she cooperates and helps him with his spying. Through the story of the voyeur and of the beautiful girl who can reach her lover’s heart only by becoming an object of voyeurism Hitchcock reflects on the act of watching films and on the complex relationship between the audience and the films. Rear Window is one of the heights of Hitchcock’s virtuous directing career and one of the greatest self-reflexive films ever created.
