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Helen Mirren Pays Tribute to Alma Reville, Alfred Hitchcock’s Wife and...
Two upcoming films will aim to shed light on Alfred Hitchcock’s relationship with his wife,Alma Reville, an editor (cum script girl) and screenwriter, who worked closely with him for exactly fifty...
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“Vertigo” Topples “Citizen Kane” From the Pinnacle of Sight and Sound’s...
After a confident 50-year run as the greatest film of all time in Sight and Sound magazine’s once-a-decade poll, Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane” has been dislodged by Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo.” It’s...
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Pasolini Gets the Double Movie Treatment, Though Not Like Hitch
Alfred Hitchcock, impersonated by Anthony Hopkins in “Hitchcock” and Tony Jones in “The Girl,” is not the only eminent auteur to be raised from the dead in two movies this year. The ghostly presence...
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Is Longer Better? A Swedish Movie Shot in a Single Take Tops Two Hours
Anette Skåhlberg, director of “7333 Seconds of Johanna” The Swedish filmmaker Anette Skåhlberg claims to have shot the longest movie consisting of a single take. Her “7333 Seconds of Johanna” (122...
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“Rebecca” Reboot: Time to Dream of Manderley Again
Steven Spielberg is to oversee a new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel “Rebecca” for DreamWorks. It will be directed by the Danish filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel, whose “A Royal Affair” was...
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Cannes Jewelry Heist Imitates “To Catch a Thief”
Life imitated art last night when jewelry was stolen from the Suite Novotel, an untouristy modern hotel opposite a police station in Cannes. The gems were taken from a safe in the room of an American...
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Nine Surviving Silents Arrive at BAM
“Downhill” (1927), Alfred Hitchcock’s fourth completed film, augurs the director’s “The 39 Steps” (1935), “The Wrong Man” (1956), and “North by Northwest” (1959) in that it’s about a man who has to...
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The Romantic Passion of Joan Fontaine
Of all the actresses Alfred Hitchcock put through the mill in stories designed to torment their women protagonists, Joan Fontaine, who died last Sunday at the age of 96, was the most defiantly...
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Kaya Scodelario Shines in “Psycho”-Influenced Thriller
The Anglo-Brazilian actress Kaya Scodelario could pass as The Joker’s daughter or Emma Watson’s evil twin. She has a disarmingly direct gaze, a mouth that turns up at the corners, and a faintly...
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