double take at the trylon tuesday

Take-Up is bringing all sorts of programs to the silver screen this week.  First up we have an offering from "Premiere Tuesdays" at the Trylon tomorrow night:

Trylon Premiere Tuesdays

Double Take

The Trylon

Tue Dec 14 7:00 8:40 
(2009, Grimonprez, DVCAM, 80m) Johan Grimonprez’s ingenious documentary/fiction hybrid — a meditation on identity, filmmaking, power and paranoia — looks at Alfred Hitchcock’s late 50s and early 60s films against the climate of Cold War-era political anxiety. Using a meticulous array of archive footage – as well as a story by novelist Tom McCarthy (Remainder) about Hitchcock encountering his double during production of The Birds – Grimonprez traces the global rise of fear as a commodity, examining modern history through the lens of mass media, advertising and Hollywood.

If you click on the trailer below you'll notice that this film has played at a whole host of respectable festivals:



While we're talking about "Trylon Premiere Tuesdays," I'll point out that last month's showing, Valhalla Rising, is available for instant viewing on Netflix.