It's Hitchcock ... with a comic touch Oct 15, 2008
Rear End by Fernandina Beach and former New York City playwright Richard Wolf is a comic spoof of the classic Alfred Hitchcock movie thriller, Rear Window. The play is part of ABET's Stage Two offerings, which are not included in season ticket subscriptions. (Florida Times-Union)
Four Performances Remain for Conservatory Thriller Oct 14, 2008
The play is perhaps best remembered for the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie version which starred Ray Milland and Grace Kelly. The play chronicles the story of Tony Wendice, a retired tennis player, who plots the murder of his wealthy British wife, Margot, when he learns of her American boyfriend and fears she will divorce him. (KWTX.com, TX)
Olson: Horror flicks affect everyone differently Oct 11, 2008
My father, for example, still shudders if anyone mentions Alfred Hitchcock s The Birds. My 33-year-old co-worker can t even talk about Poltergeist, and my husband still hates clowns a decade after seeing It. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Tournament of Roses(R) Reveals Cloris Leachman as 2009 Grand Marshal Oct 11, 2008
She continued her career, mainly working in television on shows such as "The Twilight Zone", "Rawhide", "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "Lassie" in which she played Ruth Martin, Timmy's adoptive mom in the last half of season 4. Throughout the seventies, Leachman played her most notable character, the nosy neighbor/landlady Phyllis Lindstrom on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Ex-player makes his own game film Oct 10, 2008
Graf, who has acted in more than 70 movies or TV shows, cast himself as a ref "I'm like Alfred Hitchcock. I always throw myself in.". Graf is nicknamed "coach" on set. (USA Today -- Sports)
This week's highlights Oct 6, 2008
WEDNESDAY: Before he became Hollywood s master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock directed Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a little-known romantic comedy. No, we re not talking about the film that spawned Brangelina. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
The movie before the movie: Website gives credit to credit sequences Oct 5, 2008
The industry that has grown up around title sequences has roots in the 1950s work of graphic designer Saul Bass, who designed title and end sequences for such renowned filmmakers as Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick, and Martin Scorsese. In Preminger's "The Man With the Golden Arm" (1955), for example, Bass's introduction angles blocky lines in and out of frame; the last line becomes a dangling, twisted arm, which segues to the story of Frank Sinatra as a drug-using card dealer. (Boston Globe)
Acting legend Paul Newman dies Oct 3, 2008
Newman worked with some of the greatest directors of the past half century, from Alfred Hitchcock and John Huston to Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese and the Coen brothers. His co-stars included Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and, most famously, Robert Redford, his sidekick in "Butch Cassidy" and "The Sting.". (MSNBC -- Movies)
All-Time Best Horror Films Sep 25, 2008
Psycho (1960): Directed by master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, this film made taking a shower a little less of a blissful experience ... Will Be Admitted To The Theatre After The Start Of Each Performance Of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. (Suite101.com)
Clemson Football Game Program Feature: The 1983 Team Sep 25, 2008
It looked like something out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. The next week, we received reports that some of the balloons landed in Lumberton, NC over 200 miles away. (Clemsontigers.com)
Media Rights Capital Announces New Three-Year $350 Million Revolving Credit Facility With JPMorgan Chase and Comerica Bank Sep 23, 2008
2008 film projects include "Shorts," written and directed by Robert Rodriguez; "The Box," written and directed by Richard Kelly and starring Cameron Diaz; "Linha de Passe," written and directed by Walter Salles; "Foxcatcher," written and directed by Bennett Miller; "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho" and new films by Sacha Baron Cohen and Todd Field. Upcoming television projects include the Sunday night CW programming block (In Harms Way, Surviving Suburbia,... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Photographer and Hitchcock were birds of a feather Sep 20, 2008
Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and photographer Philippe Halsman were made for each other. Each visual artist appreciated the macabre, the strangely beautiful, the unnerving, the bizarre. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
'Transsiberian' Sep 19, 2008
A worldly "bad girl" wife, a naive husband, two too-chatty strangers, drugs, Russian cops and a very long train ride - that's a combo Alfred Hitchcock would be happy to call his own. Transsiberian is a paranoid, chilling train trek that borrows freely from the best Hitchcock pictures to give us that rare adult summer thriller - "adult" as in not based on a comic book or video game. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Canadian takes role in Broadway's 39 Steps Sep 19, 2008
Toronto Canadian actor Jeffrey Kuhn is set to join the Broadway cast of The 39 Steps, the stage adaptation of the John Buchan book and Alfred Hitchcock movie. Kuhn moves into the role of Man No. 1 on Oct. 28, replacing Cliff Saunders in a production that won two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards and an Olivier Award. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
A Big Splash For Hanks Sep 16, 2008
Other honorees over the years include Alfred Hitchcock, Fred Astaire, Bob Hope, Laurence Olivier, Francis Ford Coppola, James Stewart and Bette Davis. Tickets for the Hanks shindig go on sale in. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Entertainment Sep 11, 2008
" This week, Abrams launches his newest show, "Fringe" on FOX. by When I was young, I never judged a book by its cover. Why not? Because "Reading Rainbow" told me not to, that's why. But then I started to think about it. Why shouldn't I judge a book by its cover? This book is orange I like orange this book must be awesome. by Although not a household name today, Jules Dassin was a well-known American filmmaker who began his career as an apprentice for several prominent directors, including... (The Villanovan, PA)
Buzz Briefs: Minnie Driver, John Oates Sep 10, 2008
The copyright infringement lawsuit, filed Monday in Manhattan, says "Disturbia" copied a short story Cornell Woolrich wrote in 1942 and the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie that starred James Stewart and Grace Kelly and was based on the story. Woolrich died in 1968. (CBS News)
Spielberg 'stole Hitchcock plot' Sep 10, 2008
Steven Spielberg and his Dreamworks company stole the plot of Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window, a US legal case claims. 2007's Disturbia, starring Shia LaBeouf, is a murder mystery about a boy who spies on suspicious neighbours. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Lawsuit: Window Provides Clear View of Disturbia Sep 9, 2008
" (Richmond Times Dispatch) "Neither of the writers behind Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 masterpiece, Rear Window, is credited in DreamWorks' new thriller Disturbia ... "Think of Disturbia as the black-sheep stepchild of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window." (Arizona Republic) ... "The teen thriller Disturbia...is basically an uncredited remake of the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock classic Rear Window." (Los Angeles Times). (E! Online)
'07 overall film winner takes comedy category Sep 9, 2008
"Invaded" is a suspense thriller, inspired in part by Brandon's interest in films by Alfred Hitchcock and M. Night Shyamalan. To come up with his shots, "I just thought of things that scared me and made me feel suspense," Nally said. (Florida Today)
Stephen Colbert, Noel Gallagher, Viggo Mortensen Sep 9, 2008
The copyright infringement lawsuit, filed in New York, says "Disturbia" copied a short story by Cornell Woolrich and the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie, starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, that was based on the story. The estate of Sheldon Abend, who owned the rights to "Rear Window," seeks unspecified damages. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
4 generations of El Teatro Campesino actors Sep 7, 2008
This is the town, 45 miles south of San Jose, where Alfred Hitchcock filmed the climax of "Vertigo" at Mission San Juan Bautista. Everything close by. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Woody Allen has his groove back Sep 6, 2008
Even Alfred Hitchcock had been written off, only to return stronger than ever in 1951 with "Strangers on a Train" and subsequent masterpieces. One hopes the same will be true for Roman Polanski, who stormed back to life with "The Pianist.". (Boston Globe)
* FILM REVIEW: A vicious attack on an innocent public Sep 5, 2008
Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg can all, with some justice, be accused of sadism, a charge that hardly detracts from X indeed, that helps to explain X the way they provide entertainment. Michael Haneke, an Austrian auteur who has worked for many years in France, has always been more interested in punishing his audience than in entertaining it. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Venice film festival off to shaky start... Sep 1, 2008
Corriere accused director Barbet Schroeder of "(badly) imitating Alfred Hitchcock" in a film "without suspense, which ends up irritating the spectator, trapped in a cerebral and weak-willed farce.". The Corriere reviewer blasted Marco Mueller, who this year began his second four-year term as director of the grande dame of , for making a choice that was "difficult to forgive.". (The Drudge Report)
These movies' characters have forgotten more than we know Aug 28, 2008
SPELLBOUND (1945): Undervalued when the work of Alfred Hitchcock is examined, this taut thriller stars Ingrid Bergman as a psychiatrist protecting the identity of an amnesiac (Gregory Peck) who is also posing as the head of the hospital where she works. When the real administrator turns up dead, Bergman is faced with the possibility that she's harboring a dangerous criminal. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Manny Farber: Termite of Genius Aug 28, 2008
At the same time he sniped at critics' darlings like Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles. (Citizen Kane was "exciting but hammy.") Above all, he urged the moviegoer's attention away from plot and social message and toward the vital energy occurring, as W.H. Auden wrote of Brueghel's Icarus, "Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot / Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse / Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.". (Time.com)
Festival's birthday tribute to Sir Sean Connery Aug 26, 2008
Alfred Hitchcock, a director who was notoriously hard on his actors, had struck a chord when he directed Connery in the thriller Marnie. The actor didn't get everything right on set, but Hitchcock handled all his failings with characteristic humour. (Times Online)
Remembering Kim Novak Aug 26, 2008
It is possible that the men who directed her - Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Joshua Logan, Richard Quine, Delbert Mann - saw her in the same way and made her into a projection of their fantasies. She seems to think so. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Hurtling Forward Aug 16, 2008
As Alfred Hitchcock demonstrated three times, trains make a nifty setting for a thriller. There are compartments for characters to duck into, rattling areas between cars to set an ominous mood and platforms from which passengers can be thrown. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Neighborhoods: Word on the street Aug 14, 2008
On Wednesday, Aug. 20, at 6:30 p.m., enjoy an interactive dance performance by Alice Hunter and Oneon Dance Theatre Co., which will be followed by the Friends of Raymond Park outdoor movie screening of Alfred Hitchcock s thriller Vertigo at 8 p.m. at Raymond Park (corner of Upland and Raymond Streets in Cambridge). This free outdoor performance and movie night is part of Cambridge Arts Council s Summer in the City performance series. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
Infotainment Aug 13, 2008
1899 Alfred Hitchcock, English film director was born. 1913 Otto Witte, an acrobat, is crowned King of Albania. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
The faces and places of Clark Rockefeller Aug 13, 2008
Living in a sparsely furnished converted garage on a large local estate, he presented himself as a graduate of the University of Southern California who had worked as a producer for the television show Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He was fired when it emerged that he had tried to use a social security number of the Son of Sam serial killer, David Berkowitz, to get his Wall Street broker s licence. (Times Online)
A Penny for his thoughts Aug 10, 2008
In the same year another uncollected tale was filmed in the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents starring a young Sydney Pollack. But basically his filmography consists of a crudely effective adaptation of his satirical novella Goodbye, Columbus (1969), followed in 1972 by a crudely ineffective version of his biggest success, Portnoy's Complaint, both starring Richard Benjamin; a fairly decent TV treatment (on which Roth himself collaborated) of The Ghost Writer (1984); and a serious but... (guardian.co.uk)
The Case Against August Aug 9, 2008
Raoul Wallenberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Herman Melville, and Mae West were born in August. Richard Nixon resigned in August. (Slate)
Transsiberian Review Aug 8, 2008
August 7, 2008 - Calling a thriller "Hitchcockian" is a little bit like calling a comedy funny: Given how many conventions Alfred Hitchcock made into movie boilerplate, it's essentially redundant to characterize a modern movie with the adjective because it involves a mystery, suspense, or some strange escalation of otherwise ordinary events. But Brad Anderson's Transsiberian resides in a special place reserved only for the work of filmmakers like DJ Caruso, John Dahl or Brian De Palma, where the... (IGN FilmForce)
Brothers make fine fist of crime drama Aug 5, 2008
In the very best of these crime dramas, from Alfred Hitchcock (Strangers on a Train) through to the Coen brothers (Blood Simple, Fargo), were taken deep into the rapidly beating heart of the Everyman, whose problems are not so dissimilar to our own and whose solution is tantalisingly close at hand. Another pair of filmmaking brothers, Nash and Joel Edgerton, have learnt well from their acclaimed American counterparts and cooked up a tasty crime yarn as good as anything were now getting out... (The West Australian)
Best Horror Films Ever - Psycho Aug 2, 2008
Alfred Hitchcock Sets New Standard In Scary Movies ... Alfred Hitchcock changed all this by introducing a new kind of evil. (Suite101.com)
TECHNOLOGY: Changing the way we bring movies into our homes Aug 2, 2008
Only a few new releases are there, but about 20 old Alfred Hitchcock movies are available. The first three seasons of The Office are there, but no Seinfeld. (Florida Times-Union)
AFI Names Top Ten Mystery Films of ... Jul 26, 2008
AFI Names Top Ten Mystery Films of All Time: American Film Institute Rates Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock #1 ... American Film Institute Rates Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock #1 ... The Alfred Hitchcock mystery thriller, Vertigo, takes the top spot. (Suite101.com)
Best entertainment bets for the week Jul 25, 2008
Alfred Hitchcock directed the romantic thriller, which is set on the French Riviera. 2 p.m. Sunday, 128 E. Forsyth St. $6. (Florida Times-Union)
Hitchcock & Chaplin Overlooked at t... Jul 22, 2008
The AFI top 100 lists a half dozen of Alfred Hitchcock and Charles Chaplin's great films that were not nominated for best picture Oscars ... Alfred Hitchcock Films Not Nominated for Best Picture. (Suite101.com)
Movie: The Omega Man (1971) Jul 22, 2008
Boris Sagal, who had honed his skills on television (Peter Gunn, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents) directed. Ron Grainer created the original music score. (Suite101.com)
"Transsiberian": An engaging thriller unfortunately ends up sidetracked Jul 18, 2008
Transsiberian" is a handsomely remodeled variation of a cherished genre you might call the mystery-train movie. Updated by the director Brad Anderson ("The Machinist"), who wrote the screenplay with Will Conroy, it skillfully manipulates familiar tropes: innocents abroad, ominous glowering foreigners, conspiracy and duplicity, erotic intrigue. Until it fizzles in an anticlimactic train crash, it is extremely entertaining. (The film is being released this summer in the United States and Russia,... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
'Knight' a triumph, darkly Jul 16, 2008
On close examination, Nolan has gone way of Alfred Hitchcock, in that scenes are shot in such a way as to make the viewer think there is more violence than is really being shown onscreen. As with Batman himself, there is much more going on behind the mask of action. (Lower Hudson Journal news)
In search of parking perfection Jul 14, 2008
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
William Buchan Jul 8, 2008
William, no scholar, was asked to leave New College, Oxford, after two terms, but managed to get work as an assistant to Alfred Hitchcock, having met the director during the filming of The Thirty-Nine Steps. In 1937, a long Canadian visit included a trip to New York, where he took up the French film director and actor Michel Saint-Denis's suggestion of visiting Peggy Ashcroft, then in Maxwell Anderson's play High Tor. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
The hazy, crazy, anything-but-lazy days of summer Jul 8, 2008
"Now he's in charge of the queue, hunkering down with Rod Serling, Alfred Hitchcock, and Clint Eastwood, among others," she says. "And it's truly amazing how many baby carrots and celery sticks kids will eat while watching movies.". (Boston Globe)
3-D Movies: Coming Back At Ya'! Jul 7, 2008
Beyond the shocks, Alfred Hitchcock used depth of field and hard edges of furniture to create a vivid sense of entrapment. The '80s saw a mini-3-D revival - terrible movies, although "Spacehunter" might have worked if it hadn't been a muddy jumble. (CBS News)
Rating movie twists Jul 7, 2008
READY FOR MY SHOWER, MR. HITCHCOCK: Perkins as his own mother has enduring shock value, but Alfred Hitchcock pulled a true stunner earlier in "Psycho" as the killer snuffed Janet Leigh, the movie's lead character up to that moment. That's like Dickens having Oliver Twist die of cholera in chapter three. (MSNBC -- News)
To hell with the good guy Jul 6, 2008
It's pretty certain that Alfred Hitchcock, who gave us one of the great bad guys in Psycho's Norman Bates, wasn't thinking about Darth Vader when he said "the better the villain, the better the film" but he had a point. What, for instance, would Batman be without his villains. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Places To Get Dizzy Jul 6, 2008
Besides making what is generally acknowledged to be one of the 10 best movies ever, Alfred Hitchcock also captured San Francisco circa 1958 ... Events include 6:45 p.m. book signing by the authors of "Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco" and a related exhibition (open until 9 p.m.). (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Nosy neighbor Jul 5, 2008
Tonight, you can live the fear when the Hampshire House restaurant continues its Alfred Hitchcock dinner series with "Rear Window," one of the director's more subtle pictures. Your admission gets you the movie screening and a three-course dinner. (Boston Globe)
Hotel Alex Johnson officially sold (2519) Jul 3, 2008
- 1958 -- Alfred Hitchcock, Eva Marie Saint and Cary Grant stay at the hotel while filming "North By Northwest.". - 1992 -- Owner Jim Didier's brother, Tom Didier, undertakes a major top-to-bottom renovation after several ownership changes and renovations throughout the years to reflect the changing tourism industry. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
'The human race is insane' Jun 27, 2008
"And that he does: political metaphors aside, Darabont has certainly delivered on the suspense front. Out of the mist, apparently generated by a botched military experiment, emerge some of the nastiest monsters imaginable - giant flying bugs of the ickiest, squirmiest kind, huge clawed tentacles that can reach in and tear away huge chunks of human flesh, giant shadowy creatures hundreds of feet high - and their extreme violence and malevolence drives the characters to the edge of insanity. As... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Soap star shoots movie -- and hoops -- in Orange City Jun 26, 2008
"Alfred Hitchcock called filmmaking organized chaos," Jamey Durham said while surveying his hot surroundings. "This is it, man!". (Sioux City Journal, IO)
'Oz,' '2001,' 'Vertigo' among AFI top genre flicks Jun 26, 2008
AP photoIn this 1958 file photo, Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak are shown in a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's 1958, "Vertigo." The film is among the American Film Institute's best genre movies ... Not surprisingly, Alfred Hitchcock dominated the mystery category. (Carroll County Times)
Warm up to death Jun 25, 2008
First, he sets up a scary scenario complete with crafty camera angles and attractive blonde (you know, the kind of scene that would make Alfred Hitchcock proud); then hell reveal something that will just make you want to laugh out loud. In one episode, we see a man getting stabbed with a sharp tool, over and over again. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
The Fish Meet "The Birds" Jun 22, 2008
The town's visitor center hands out 8,000 maps a year pinpointing where Alfred Hitchcock filmed the most memorable scenes of the 1963 classic "The Birds." ... Stop at the Sonoma Coast Visitors Center, and get a map for the sites Alfred Hitchcock used in "The Birds." The hamlet of Bodega, 5 miles south of Bodega Bay, is home to the Potter School, where local children and their teacher, played by Suzanne Pleshette, are attacked by ravens. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Favorite Flicks Jun 20, 2008
Not surprisingly, Alfred Hitchcock dominated the mystery category. Besides "Vertigo," he landed three others on that top 10 list: "Rear Window" at No. 3, "North by Northwest" at No. 7 and "Dial M for Murder" at No. 9. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
What has The Wizard of Oz got in common with The Godfather? Jun 19, 2008
Alfred Hitchcock dominated the mystery category, topping the list with Vertigo, but also making the top 10 with Rear Window at three, North By Northwest at seven, and Dial M for Murder at nine. Chaplin's City Lights from 1931, one of only two silent films to make the genre lists, beating popular modern romances like Annie Hall, When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Live from Los Angeles: Hollywood Stars Jun 19, 2008
The Dodgers and Hollywood have had a great relationship that dates back to their first home game in Southern California on April 18, 1958, when spectators included Edward G. Robinson, Chuck Connors, Alfred Hitchcock, Gregory Peck, Danny Kaye, Burt Lancaster, Jack Lemmon, Nat King Cole, Danny Thomas, Buddy Rogers, John Ford, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Gene Autry, Groucho Marx, George Jessel, Dennis Morgan, Lauren Bacall, Ray Bolger, Jo Stafford, and Paul Weston. is a Senior Writer for. (MLB.com -- Los Angeles Dodgers)
AFI picks best films in 10 categories Jun 18, 2008
The oldest entry on the list is "The Thief of Bagdad" from 1924, and the newest, 2003's "Finding Nemo." Director Alfred Hitchcock has four films represented. With six, Jimmy Stewart tops the actors, and Diane Keaton, with four, the actresses. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
The natural way to end a conversation. Jun 18, 2008
With rare exceptionslike Alfred Hitchcock at his best few filmmakers can move from cynical chuckling to solemn contemplation of the human condition. The Coens seem to have set themselves that very task in No Country for Old Men, and the result, while it may be their most ambitious and successful film in years, remains just a Coen brothers movie, a curio to collect rather than an experience to remember. (Slate)
The Fives: Move aside AFI, here's a movie list South Dakotans can dig their teeth into Jun 18, 2008
By Todd Williams, Journal staff Wednesday, June 18, 2008. AFI released its on Tuesday, an entertaining look at a wide swath of motion picture history. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
