High Anxiety - Part 2 (with Annette Crawford)
My friend Annette Crawford returns to complete our visitation of Mel Brooks’s High Anxiety (1977), a movie whose relationship to the work of Alfred Hitchcock is hotly contested by Ms. Crawford (along with basically every other thing I said during the talk). This won’t really settle the issue, but the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines an homage as an “expression of high regard,” and I just want to say that I don’t think High Anxiety holds Hitchcock in particularly high regard at all — even if Mel Brooks himself, I’m sure, does. Anyway, please enjoy two of hours of me and Annette arguing. And then go watch Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014), a movie I ABSOLUTELY DID NOT SPOIL, ANNETTE. Ahem. Thank you.
