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“I call it Hitchcockian.”

— Helen Mirren on her 2010 film “The Debt”

An obituary from BBC News on Sept. 22, 2014:

Israeli Mossad spy Mike Harari dies, aged 87

BBC News did not give a date for the death.

The New York Times  now says that Harari died on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014.

This journal on that date —

From the BBC America TV series “Intruders,” Season 1, Episode 4,
“Ave Verum Corpus “ (33:34 of 45 min.):

Mira Sorvino pays her respects to a distinguished corpse.

* For Hitchcock fans . . .

C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89 .

Bell reportedly died on Friday, May 17, 2024.

Related concepts:

The_Final_Cut_(2004_film)  and . . .

From "When Novelists Become Cubists," by Andre Furlani—

"The architectonics of a narrative," Davenport says,
"are emphasized and given a role to play in dramatic effect
when novelists become Cubists; that is, when they see
the possibilities of making a hieroglyph, a coherent symbol,
an ideogram of the total work. A symbol comes into being
when an artist sees that it is the only way to get all the meaning in." 

* See "Starlight Like Intuition" by Delmore Schwartz.
The "Twelve" of the title may be regarded as cube edges.

There were no Log24 posts on March 17 or March 19.

From a March 18  post, a flashback to February —

"In The Girl Before, the house is almost a shapeshifter as it fits
the needs of the story. Sometimes it feels like an art gallery,
with its inhabitants on display. It's a smart home (of course it is),
and its automated locks and lights and creepily intuitive A.I.
give it the feel of a high-tech prison. Sometimes it's a mausoleum
for Jane, who's dealing with the recent pain of a miscarriage.
Sometimes it's a fortress for Emma, who's dealing with the recent
trauma of a home invasion." —  Joe Reid at Primetimer.com.

Related story elements — Two deaths, from March 17 and 19.

"No there  there?"

— Kastalia Medrano, "The Art of Space Art," Sept. 14, 2017

Ghost in the Shell

The opening lines of Eliot's Four Quartets —

"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past."

Perhaps.

Those who prefer geometry to rhetoric may also prefer
to Eliot's lines the immortal opening of the Transformers  saga —

"Before time began, there was the Cube."

One version of the Cube —

"It never occurred to me that someone could so explicitly reject
the core experience of something like Chartres."

— Christopher Alexander to Peter Eisenman, 1982

For a less dramatic core experience , see Hitchcock.

Happy birthday to Mira Sorvino.

Related material:

Today’s posts Hitchcockian,  Darkness and Light,
and Requiem for Abse.

Some context for the last of these:

The conclusion of last night’s episode of Intruders .

"Hitchcock made movies with many actresses
who had the aloof, Nordic beauty he admired."

— Alessandra Stanley in today's NY Times

Aloof, Nordic…

Freeze Frame

Related material:

Fermata

(Continued :  See Identity,  decomposition, and Sunshine Cleaning . )

"What, one might ask, does the suave, debonaire
Roger Thornhill have to do with the notion of
decomposition (emphasized by the unusual
coffin-shaped 'O') implied in the acronym
formed by his initials?" 

— Paul Gordon, Dial "M" for Mother ,
     Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008, page 97

"To stay with the context of Cavell's brilliant reading 
of the film's relation to Hamlet, 'there is something rot -ten
in North by Northwest ' that also needs to be explained."

— Paul Gordon, op. cit., page 98

Related remarks— Sunday morning, May 20, 2007.