A Century of Hitchcock: The Man, The Myths, The Legacy is a new book by Hitchcock scholar Tony Lee Moral. It aims to deliver details about the auteur Alfred Hitchcock, while primarily aspiring to repair his reputation. Towards that end, the book puts forth some compelling evidence that the conventional perception of the iconic director […]
A Century of Hitchcock: The Man, The Myths, The Legacy by Tony Lee Moral aims to do some reclamation. According to the author, there’s an idea polluting a cinema legend’s reputation. This corruption of the truth has poisoned the public impression of a titan souring all association with the individual. However, as Moral presents it, […]
One hundred and two years on from the release of his first film, you would think there would be little remaining to say about Alfred Hitchcock, or little need to re-release his works. Studiocanal has wonderfully proved us wrong with the release of Hitchcock: The Beginning, an 11-disc Special Edition Blu-Ray box-set that presents 10 of […]
What is there left to say about Alfred Hitchcock, one of the most famous, most celebrated and perhaps the most written-about film directors of all time? Haven’t we heard it all before? Perhaps the only way around such a dilemma would be to allow ‘Hitch’ to speak for himself, to tell us about his films […]
Hosts Tim Rosenberger and Rosalie Lewis talk about the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, through two of his thrillers, both released through The Criterion Collection: The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) and Notorious (1946). https://anchor.fm/bluray-boutique/episodes/Blu-ray-Boutique-Episode-35—Two-Alfred-Hitchcock-Thrillers-e1pu62o
Alfred Hitchcock filmed his first movie in 1922. Number 13 (or Mrs. Peabody, since it isn’t clear which was the real title) was a comedy that was never finished due to insufficient funds. His next feature was 1925’s The Pleasure Garden, a romantic drama that, from what I’ve heard, has few of the elements that […]
Literature has been peppered with great opening lines, one of them being, “Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley,” from Daphne du Maurier’s novel, Rebecca. A film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock followed, his second du Maurier adaptation after 1939’s Jamaica Inn. Rebecca is an early triumph for Hitchcock and does great justice to Du […]
Among 1980s comedies, TAG: The Assassination Game from 1982 stands apart. It eschews the decade’s raunchiness and broad hilarity. Instead, writer/director Nick Castle crafts a satirical melting pot that blends noir, comedy, spy thriller, and slasher into a film that delivers undeniable fun. Before this year, it lived in relative obscurity. But a new Blu-ray […]
Beginning the weekend of September 4th, Noir City: Chicago returns to Chicago’s famed Music Box Theatre for its 2026 program. This year, the favored annual event will present “Face the Music!,” a 19-film program of crime and mystery films featuring musicians! So often, gifted individuals from that performative genre have talents that translate well from […]
The Catholic Church does not allow nuns to perform exorcisms. They aren’t even allowed to be in the room where it happens. But if you found yourself on a train possessed by the demon Asmodeus, hurtling along the tracks at high speed, wouldn’t you trust a nun to save the day? Speed Demon is as […]
If not for the title Late Fame, would we even consider what Willem Dafoe’s recovering poet character Ed Saxberger is seeking to be fame? Saxberger was a poet in perhaps the last days where that meant much of anything in America: New York in the late 1970s, when the surviving Beats had aged into elder […]
Most films about obsession eventually give us a way out. Someone confesses, someone breaks, someone dies, and the story turns intensity into closure. Even tragedy can feel oddly reassuring when it arrives on schedule. But some films refuse that contract. They let fixation deepen without offering the relief of release, leaving us not with resolution […]
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