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Hitchcock Conference

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Being a Hitchcock fanatic since childhood (MANY years ago), I'm naturally signed up for this online conference, https://www.hitchcon.org/, coming up on October 1-3. As I recall, I've exchanged PMs with people here re: Hitchcock movies, so I thought I'd share this, in case anyone else is interested. Only $25, and I know they have room for more attendees.

Hitchcon was originally going to be both live (at this cool place on Cape Cod: https://www.hitchcon.org/attend) and via Zoom, but now it's only Zoom due to Covid.

The speakers truly are the current heavy hitters of Hitchcock scholarship, which is both fantastic and maybe a little scary, in that some sessions may get quite wonky. Really, the only big name missing is Ken Mogg, who runs this wild and crazy Hitchcock site: https://hitchinfo.net/main.html (Ken is in Australia, so I can understand why he wasn't planning to be there in person. But couldn't he Zoom in? Though for him it would be the middle of the night, right?)

The interest in The Master only seems to grow!
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Well, I tried. The organizers asked us to spread the word to anyone who might be interested. Still room, but no worries either; they have a pretty good crowd signed up.
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Hey, just for the record (in case anyone at all is noting this), HitchCon 2021 was a ton of fun!

There are two follow-up groups going on, one with bi-weekly Hitchcock movie showings, the other monthly, both with pre- and post-movie chats, plus another monthly presentation and discussion, some other side things … and HitchCon 2022 now in planning, probably for late September or early October.

Puzzling is fun, but Hitchcock is HITCHCOCK! 🙂

Can you tell the Master’s movies have been a lifetime obsession for me? Though don’t be intimidated; many participants are relative Hitchcock newcomers or even complete newbies.

If interested, googling on HitchCon 2021 or “Joel Gunz HitchGeek” should get you to where you can check into signing on and testing it out.
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