If you haven't seen Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder in 3-D, you haven't seen it. Viewed "flat," it's merely a crackerjack adaptation of Frederick Knott's tightly constructed stage thriller (with splendid performances by Grace Kelly, Ray Milland, and John Williams as a supremely lucid Scotland Yard detective) in which Hitchcock proves again that a film can be "cinematic" even when its action is confined to a single room. In 3-D, as shown at the Film Forum (on synchronized 35-mm.—not digital—film projectors), the space becomes dynamic, both deeper and scarily constricting. Hitchcock can rock your world even with the arrangement of furniture—not to mention that hand shooting straight into your face and fumbling for the scissors ...
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