Sidney Gottlieb

Reflections on The Pleasure Garden

Alfred Hitchcock’s directorial debut, The Pleasure Garden (1925), celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Just in time, the long-awaited BFI restoration is set for release on Blu-ray featuring an audio commentary by Sidney Gottlieb. In this talk, Gottlieb reflects on the film’s overlooked significance.

About
HitchCon Advisory Board member. Sidney Gottlieb is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut. He edits The Hitchcock Annual. His work on Hitchcock includes two volumes of Hitchcock on Hitchcock (1995 and 2015), Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews (2003) and, most recently, in collaboration with Donal Martin as co-editor, Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Then and Now (2021).