8:30 pm - Closing Event
THE LODGER: A STORY OF THE LONDON FOG (GB 1927; 90’)
by Alfred Hitchcock, with Ivor Novello
Score: Neil Brand
Performed live by: Orchestra San Marco, Pordenone
Conductor: Ben Palmer (Covent Garden Sinfonia, London)

This is Pordenone’s first Hitchcock screening since 1999, the centenary of his birth, when the full range of his surviving silent work was shown. The opening shot of The Lodger is the close-up of another young woman, screaming, the victim of a serial killer. Media and public are at once shown to be – like us in the audience – horrified but fascinated, and the film exploits this ambivalence with ruthless efficiency, teasing us with uncertainty:  could the handsome lodger be the killer and Daisy, the blonde daughter of the house, the next likely victim? Repeatedly we linger over tense close-ups of women…