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Hitchcockian: that adjective instantly conjures dark ballads sung with a puckish lilt. The darkness--the evil that befalls beautiful people--infuses the best of the 14 films in this handsome DVD set: Shadow of a Doubt, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds. (The package also includes nifty docs on the making of the last two films.) Viewers saw the director's impish side as host of the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the first season of which is now available in a separate set. That makes for a two-box festival of Hitch--some ephemeral, most of it seminal...
...DARK WATER...
Most suspense films these days are high-voltage gross-outs. It took Nakata to restore delicacy to dread with his Japanese hit The Ring and its sequels. His 2002 Dark Water got a Hollywood makeover this year, but the original is the one to see and savor. This fable of a woman and her daughter in a very wet apartment building slowly builds an edifice of fear. Like the other masters of suspense, Nakata makes films that infect viewers with an unease lasting long after the final fadeout. --By Richard Corliss
...American cinema is in need of more misogyny, more rape scenes, or more metal phalli. Rather, our horror films—which are supposedly the products of a rich, illustrious Western mythic tradition dating back to who-knows-when—have become stale and boringly safe. Consider what dark fantasies have been offered to us recently—moldy, twice-baked garbage like “The Ring Two” (sequel to a remake of a Japanese movie), “The Fog” (remake of a mildly diverting John Carpenter movie), “The Amityville...
...have masterminded the suite’s decoration. Pham and Shemtov share the one double, which they styled for “the feel of an old men’s club,” Shemtov says. The walls are covered in an ornate, patterned fabric, and a dark wood armoire feels very Renaissance. Embellishing the room are various tchotchkes from Shemtov’s collection, like a 17th century portable lap desk, a model foot from a shoemaker, and Chinese porcelain urns. Not all the bedrooms are as baroque. “While Baruch’s more about...