Word: hitchcock
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...classical music is the Sala Grande at the Conservatory, tel: (39-02) 7621 1012, which has a slightly decadent air, as if it was a private sitting room. Afterward, I might drop into Bar Jamaica, tel: (39-02) 876 723. Opened in 1921, it was renamed after Alfred Hitchcock's 1939 film, Jamaica Inn. The haunt of writers and artists such as Piero Manzoni and Allen Ginsberg, it's a taste of the bygone, bohemian days of the Brera district...
...dirty job, and it gets dirtier when Wikus is infected with some alien gookum and his left arm turns creature-like. Now he's hunted by both his old firm and the Nigerians who want his prawn arm to fire the space weapons. Classic Hitchcock vectors: a man on the run from two adversaries. In '60s TV-series terms, he's the fugitive and the one-armed man. Out of options, he must find help from the species he and his kind have subjugated and slaughtered. In this monster movie, the monster is us. (See the 25 greatest villains...
...digital therapy evolves, "one of the tricks is to identify who will respond best to online treatment," notes Dr. Michael Sateia, director of sleep medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Psychiatric Associates in Lebanon, N.H. "Sleep medicine is still in its childhood, and for decades we have lived in a culture where pharmacological therapies have been the mainstay. But we are beginning to change that mentality." Sateia's center, for example, recently hired a nurse practitioner to offer more affordable group therapy as an alternative to individual counseling by a psychiatrist. (Read: "On the Couch Online: Does Tele-Therapy Work...
...when Antichrist moves defiantly out of the land of Hitchcock's Psycho and into Saw territory that it lost most of its audience Sunday night. There were scenes - the woman's attack on her husband's sex organs, then her mutilation of her own - where you could hear "Oh, come on!" muttered in several languages. There's nothing wrong with a movie going crazy along with its characters, as we noted in our Thirst review two days ago, but von Trier doesn't have the craft to bring the moviegoer along in the most extreme parts of Antichrist. The thought...
...Revengers Comedies (1989) A man and woman meet on London's Albert Bridge and plot to "exchange" murders. She goes after his hated boss, then expects him to bump off her rival in love. This epic updating of Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train is hampered by its two-play length, but it is Ayckbourn at the very top of his game...