Alfred Hitchcock
WESTON-SUPER-MARE, ENGLAND - MARCH 26: Detail of a sand sculpture of Alfred Hitchcock is seen as pieces are prepared as part of this year's Hollywood themed annual Weston-super-Mare Sand Sculpture festival on March 26, 2013 in Weston-Super-Mare, England. Due to open on Good Friday, currently twenty award winning sand sculptors from across the globe are working to create sand sculptures including Harry Potter, Marilyn Monroe and characters from the Star Wars films as part of the town's very own movie themed festival on the beach.
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This taffy-twisted African rock reminds me of a dolphin, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Alfred Hitchcock made films in this genre his entire life-time. There is no dearth of plots for horror. One needs to keep reinventing. Making movies is like playing cricket. You got to go on the field and take the risk
He's not being telegraphed as a villain. If the audience didn't know who he was, they wouldn't see him coming. What we have is Alfred Hitchcock's principle of suspense – show the audience the bomb under the table and let them sweat when it's going to boom.More quotes »
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Christian Gerhartsreiter, Rockefeller impostor, found guilty in murder case
, heir to a fabled oil fortune, or Chris Chichester, the 13th baronet of England or even Chris Crowe, a producer of an Alfred Hitchcock mystery TV show."I've never known anyone with the ability to become so many people," said jury forewoman Kristen Lee, an Read more »
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'Stoker' review: It's no Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock 's classic "Shadow of a Doubt," Joseph Cotten 's homicidal Uncle Charlie was a human malignancy, made more so by the pure America that surrounded him.The people of Santa Rosa were so goofily innocent -- including his niece, also named Charlie Read more »
Around the web
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Letter: Buckle up, it will be a bumpy ride
friend recently suggested I check out a television series on A&E, "Bates Motel." It's a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller "Psycho." Usually not a fan of such fare, I nonetheless recorded several episodes and became strangely fascinated anticipating 9:06 AM from The Columbian Read more »
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Bay Street Theatre Presents 'The Mystery of Irma Vep'
Vep by Charles Ludlam, is a satire of several theatrical and film genres, including Victorian melodrama, farce and the Alfred Hitchcock film Rebecca (1940). The play is written for two actors who, between them, play eight characters of both sexes. It contains from LongIsland.com Read more »
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What We Wish We Were: On Biopic-Mania
to the movies, but kind of satisfying, too, in the way that being petty can be. Maybe it’s a good film if you weren’t aware Alfred Hitchcock had a thing for so-called icy blonds and that he got creepily obsessive when it came to his leading ladies. And if from The Paris Review Read more »
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Martin Scorsese on Film Preservation and the Future of Movies
aren’t well reviewed by critics, or well received by audiences, might be considered tomorrow’s classics. For instance, take Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo,” released in 1958 to tepid audience and critical reaction, and then largely forgotten until the 1980s, from Patheos Blogs Read more »
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Matt Nathanson Channels Hitchcock with “Mission Bells” Video
back to the horror films of Alfred Hitchcock for inspiration. He says: “we shot it in San Francisco as an homage to the great Alfred Hitchcock. The idea was to make the kind of video you might have seen if you watched “120 minutes” back in the day… which was from Words From A Blerd Read more »
