Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller “The Birds” (1963) is one of this year’s retrospective screenings at the Milwaukee Film Festival.

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Two seconds and three quick cuts is all Alfred Hitchcock needed to traumatize me. Watching “The Birds” on television as an impressionable 12-year-old seemed like a good idea until Jessica Tandy discovered the farmer with his eyes pecked out. Rather than a traditional zoom, Hitchcock used three staccato shots to close in on the wounded …

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