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THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
"How did a portly, dapper gent from Leytonstone – resembling the butler who did it in the library with a rope – manage to infiltrate not just Hollywood but American culture – and indeed, the very psyche of cinema?"
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SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN
"The just-reissued Vampires of Dartmore album Dracula's Music Cabinet (Finders
Keepers) includes a track titled "Hallo, Mr. Hitchcock," in which beloved Hitch silently
answers a series of phone calls from a manic, murderous prankster."
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BIDOUN
"Artist Johan Grimonprez and author Tom McCarthy became acquainted at a 2005 screening of
Grimonprez’s film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1998), a montage documentary about the rise of skyjacking,
set to excerpts of Don DeLillo’s novel Mao II."
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NRC HANDELSBLAD
„Als je je dubbelganger
ontmoet, moet je hem
vermoorden”, is het
Borgesiaanse motto van
‘Double Take’. Regisseur
Johan Grimonprez aan de
telefoon uit New York."
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ART IN AMERICA
"THINK AGAIN. With Double Take, Johan Grimonprez extends his exploration of the mirror worlds of news and
entertainment, using Alfred Hitchcock – and his doubles – as suitably duplicitous guides."
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SENSES OF CINEMA
29th Sundance Film Festival Report by Bérénice Reynaud
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THE GUARDIAN
"No better way to mark the 50th anniversary of Psycho (the rerelease is reviewed on
page 8) than with this bizarre and distinctly inspired mash-up by writer Tom McCarthy
and film-maker Johan Grimonprez."
SIGHT AND SOUND
"More than just a homage, Johan Grimonprez’s extraordinary
montage uses Hitch’s mischievous TV appearances as the launch
pad for a brilliant riff on Cold War politics and the idea of the
double."
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CINEMASCOPE
"To write about Hitchcock today—nay, to think about Hitchcock today—is, as Johan Grimonprez’s Double Take admits in its dizzying construction, simply vertiginous."
“'They say that if you meet your double, you should kill him.' The mantra in Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez’s eighty-minute film Double Take, 2009, suggests that the real must assert itself against its image to prevent its own defeat in an ongoing battle between fiction and reality."
ART PAPERS
"NVT: 'In your essay film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, 1997, you explored the subject of hijacking in order to hijack the media. You also used the writings of Don DeLillo to comment on the images you appropriated."
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