Film Forum

A festival celebrating the game changing 11-year collaboration between director Alfred Hitchcock and composer Bernard Herrmann, often called the greatest director-composer partnership in cinema history. Their eight films together include NORTH BY NORTHWEST, VERTIGO, THE BIRDS, MARNIE, THE WRONG MAN, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, and PSYCHO.

The festival coincides with the publication of Hitchcock & Herrmann: The Friendship & Film Scores That Changed Cinema (Oxford University Press), a new book by Steven C. Smith, it will be available at our concession during the festival.

“Hitchcock & Herrmann Review: Symphony of Suspense” – Wall Street Journal

Writes Mr. Smith, “Starting with the mordantly comic THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY, through 1964's MARNIE, Hitch and Benny—their names for each other—forged an artistic bond rooted in emotions they both knew well. Fear. Anxiety. Hate. Desire. That teaming endured despite their disparate personalities and backgrounds: Hitchcock was a Catholic from London who loathed conflict. Herrmann was a volatile Jew from New York's East Side.”

Mr. Smith will introduce select screenings throughout the festival. 

Presented with support from The Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s and The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film

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