A short documentary made for the 2019 Criterion Collection DVD release of NOTORIOUS featuring new and archival interviews with scholars Steven D. Katz and Bill Krohn, storyboard artists Gabriel Hardman and Harold Michelson, production designer Robert F. Boyle, and others. Filmmaker Daniel Raim delves into the extensive preproduction and previsualization processes Alfred Hitchcock undertook to ensure his cinematic vision for NOTORIOUS would be realized precisely.
Steven Katz is a screenwriter and television writer living in New York City. Among his feature credits is the original script for the 2000 film Shadow of the Vampire (Horror Writers Association/Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Screenplay). His television credits include Showtime’s Fallen Angels (1992-1993), HBO’s From the Earth to the Moon (Emmy Award for Outstanding Mini-Series 1997-1998), Cinemax’s The Knick (Peabody Award 2014-2015), and Discovery’s Manhunt: Unabomber (2017).