Pynchonesque Hitchcock, Hitchcockian Pynchon

[Judy]

Last night I went to the "Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences" exhibition
at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. There wasn't much on "Notorious" but
you might be interested in what they did have. Apparently, it "is the first
exhibition ever in which a museum has drawn parallels between film and
painting...The exhibition includes two hundred nineteenth- and
twentieth-century artworks - paintings, drawings, prints, illustrated books
and sculpture..."   The Museum's site, www.mmfa.qc.ca , provides
reproductions of some of these artworks, some along with corresponding
stills. No mention of Pynchon, but there is a whole section devoted to Edgar
Allan Poe with illustrations by Beardsley, Martinini and Redon.

Due to its popularity, the exhibition has been extended into April but I'm
not sure one would be able to take it in while travelling to Quebec City for
the
April 20th demonstration to stop the FTAA.

-Judy

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeremy Osner <jeremy at xyris.com>
To: p-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 9:06 AM
Subject: Pynchonesque Hitchcock, Hitchcockian Pynchon


> Hi,
>
> I watched "Notorious" last night and was amazed. There is an
> extraordinary degree of linkage between this film and at least part I of
> Gravity's Rainbow. Bergman plays a sort of ingenuous Katje, Grant a
> suavely conflicted Pirate, Raines works for IG Farben. Noticed other
> particular details while I was watching but now I can't recall. A
> wonderful, paranoid movie. I lived out my fantasy of being trapped on an
> estate in Rio with a mad scientist, a momma's boy, and Blicero.
>
> Jeremy
>
>