{"id":23443,"date":"2011-07-04T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/?p=23443"},"modified":"2011-06-28T13:14:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T20:14:49","slug":"50dmc-6-least-favorite-film-from-favorite-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/50dmc-6-least-favorite-film-from-favorite-director\/","title":{"rendered":"50DMC #6: Least Favorite Film from Favorite Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/50-Day-Challenge-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"50-Day-Challenge-06\" width=\"550\" height=\"242\" class=\"centered size-full wp-image-23641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/50-Day-Challenge-06.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/50-Day-Challenge-06-290x128.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/50-Day-Challenge-06-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/50-Day-Challenge-06-454x200.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The 50 Day Movie Challenge asks one question every day, to be answered by a few paragraphs and a clip, if possible. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/2011\/06\/50-day-movie-challenge\/\">Click here<\/a> for the full list of questions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s prompt: <b>What is your least favorite film from your favorite director?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"firstletter\">M<\/span>y overall favorite director is Alfred Hitchcock, perhaps an overly safe and mainstream choice, but I can&#8217;t deny how much I flat-out enjoy almost all of his films. For as many films as he made, the fact that 99% of them are awesome is pretty amazing, but even he had a few duds. I haven&#8217;t seen quite all of his films (yet!) but my least favorite of the many I have is easily <em>Under Capricorn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It was made in 1949 with Ingrid Bergman (who had recently done <em>Spellbound<\/em> and <em>Notorious<\/em> for Hitch) and Joseph Cotten, which ought to be a recipe for success, but its very story of a love triangle in 1830s Australia is deadly dull. It&#8217;s not simply that the film isn&#8217;t really a thriller, because Hitch made other excellent films that aren&#8217;t really thrillers &#8211; in terms of a gothic romance, he&#8217;s got the very solid <em>Rebecca<\/em> on his resume, and <em>Under Capricorn<\/em> is not solid. It&#8217;s just there, heavy and uninteresting.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, while looking up clips for it, I read that the <em>Cahier<\/em> critics thought really highly of the film. Maybe it&#8217;s time to revisit it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"centered\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"442\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gISBzNguTew\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 50 Day Movie Challenge asks one question every day, to be answered by a few paragraphs and a clip, if possible. Click here for the full list of questions. Today&#8217;s prompt: What is your least favorite film from your favorite director? My overall favorite director is Alfred Hitchcock, perhaps an overly safe and mainstream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[2145,285,2150],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/50-Day-Challenge-06.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32980,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/top-ten-alfred-hitchcock-films\/","url_meta":{"origin":23443,"position":0},"title":"Top Ten: Alfred Hitchcock Films","author":"Jandy","date":"August 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Alfred Hitchcock, celebrating what would have been his 114th birthday last week, is undeniably my favorite director. I've seen almost all of his filmography, barring a few scattered ones here and there and most of the silents, and even though there are a few I'm not that crazy about (looking\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Film&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Film","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/feat-Hitchsilhouette.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":36129,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/challenge-week-28-i-confess\/","url_meta":{"origin":23443,"position":1},"title":"Challenge Week 28: I Confess","author":"Jandy","date":"July 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"It's pretty well-known among my friends and acquaintances that I'm a huge Alfred Hitchcock fan, so assigning me a Hitchcock film I hadn't seen was a kind of a gimme. This, I believe, was one of two American Hitchcock films I hadn't seen (now the only remaining American one is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;2016 Movie Challenge&quot;","block_context":{"text":"2016 Movie Challenge","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/2016-movie-challenge\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tf-feat3.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1653,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/favorite-films-one-letter-at-a-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":23443,"position":2},"title":"Favorite Films, One Letter at a Time","author":"Jandy","date":"November 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I rarely organize my collections alphabetically, at least not as the major organizational tool, since the letter the title starts with is usually less meaningful than the year it was made or the genre that it's in. But there's a meme going around film blogs (starting with Blog Cabins) to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Film&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Film","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23417,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/50dmc-1-my-favorite-movie\/","url_meta":{"origin":23443,"position":3},"title":"50DMC #1 &#8211; My Favorite Movie","author":"Jandy","date":"June 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The 50 Day Movie Challenge asks one question every day, to be answered by a few paragraphs and a clip, if possible. Click here for the full list of questions. Today's prompt: What is your favorite movie? 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