By Richard Haridy May 15, 2013 There are a multitude of sordidly fascinating directions a biopic on Alfred Hitchcock could take. So, when Sacha Gervasi‘s flat and frothy Hitchcock concludes, it’s inevitably frustrating to find this film takes such a conventional path. Hitchcock opens right when the great man was at the top of his game, having just released the gloriously […]
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A Royal Affair director to remake Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca
March 28, 2013 
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It’s a brave director who takes on a remake of a Hitchcock film and Deadline recently revealed Danish director Nikolaj Arcel to be very brave indeed. Arcel, coming off international success with his Oscar nominated drama A Royal Affair, is taking on Alfred Hitchcock’s sole Best Picture winner Rebecca, which is based on the Daphne […]
Continue readingVera Farmiga to play Norman Bates’ mother in Psycho TV show
August 29, 2012 0 Comments
Vera Farmiga will play Norman Bates’ mother – pre-skeletal, of course – in Bates Motel, A&E’s TV series based on Alfred Hitchcock‘s classic Psycho. According to Deadline, Norman’s mother is called Norma, and is a “passionate, and compelling…smart, multidimensional character who is always capable of surprising us.” Bates Motel has a straight-to-series order, so we can look forward to 10 episodes arriving […]
Continue readingVertigo tops Citizen Kane on Sight and Sound’s ‘Greatest Films of All Time’ poll
August 2, 2012 4 Comments
Vertigo has been named the ‘GREATEST FILM OF ALL TIME’ (we figure the caps are necessary in this instance) on the latest Sight and Sound poll, ending Citizen Kane‘s 50-year rule. The British Film Institute collects the votes from more than 800 critics, programmers, academics, and distributors every decade to provide the most authoritative listing […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Marnie
May 8, 2012 0 Comments
Play It Again – Marnie. Starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Rated M. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which classic-film connoisseur Jess Lomas revisits a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Frenzy
May 1, 2012 1 Comment
Play It Again – Frenzy. Starring Jon Finch, Barry Foster, and Alec McCowen. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Rated M. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which classic-film connoisseur Jess Lomas revisits a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Psycho
April 24, 2012 1 Comment
Play It Again – Psycho. Starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, and John Gavin. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which classic-film connoisseur Jess Lomas revisits a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – The Birds
April 17, 2012 1 Comment
Play It Again – The Birds. Starring Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, and Jessica Tandy. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which classic-film connoisseur Jess Lomas revisits a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has […]
Continue readingSee Toby Jones & Sienna Miller as Alfred Hitchcock & Tippi Hedren
March 21, 2012 0 Comments
The first image of Toby Jones and Sienna Miller as Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren (respectively, obviously) has arrived online, courtesy of Cinemateaser. It comes from the set of Julian Jarrold’s The Girl, a recount of Hitchcock and Hedren’s experience filming The Birds, and the director’s obsession with his leading lady. For your reference, here’s the inspiration for the pic […]
Continue readingAlfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca to be remade
February 13, 2012 0 Comments
DreamWorks and Working Title are gearing up to remake Alfred Hitchcock‘s Best Picture winning 1940 film Rebecca, Variety reports. The film – Hitchcock’s first American endeavour – starred Laurence Olivier as a widower whose second wife is forever being unfavourably compared to the first. Ironically, the world will soon be able to say the ‘2nd […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Rebecca
January 25, 2012 1 Comment
Play It Again – Rebecca. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which classic-film connoisseur Jess Lomas revisits a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca […]
Continue reading>Anvil director tackles ‘Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho’
January 21, 2011 0 Comments
>We all knew it was going to happen; but I certainly would never have guessed it was going to happen quite like this… According to the L.A. Times, Sacha Gervasi (Anvil! The Story of Anvil) is in discussions with executives at Ivan Reitman’s Montecito Pictures to direct the film adaptation of one chapter from Stephen […]
Continue readingThe new Buried poster will give you Vertigo
June 9, 2010 0 Comments
A Saul Bass-inspired poster for Sundance hit Buried has debuted on the MTV website, and we kind of love it. Bass famously designed many of Alfred Hitchcock‘s posters and opening title sequences. His iconic style has been used to great effect here. Rodrigo Cortes’ film features Ryan Reynolds as a U.S. contractor in Iraq who […]
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