Every stitch of Hitch
What will provide you with vertigo, frenzy, suspicion, and a touch of blackmail — in 39 steps? The answer is rich and strange: “The Complete Alfred Hitchcock,” a summer series at the Harvard Film Archive that will include all the feature film work of an iconic director whom many consider the best of the 20th century. In a rare touch, the series also will screen nine silent films, recently restored by the British Film Institute. The series, including more than 50 titles, is not in your rear window, but starts Thursday and runs through Sept. 28. Among the treats for series viewers, in a touch of duality that the director would have appreciated, is the chance to see two versions of “Blackmail,” both released in 1929. The first (on screen Saturday) is a silent, the second (on screen July 21) a technical remake, an experimental talkie made on the eve of cinema’s embrace...