Word: hitchcock
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...start of such a good movie. Instead, and alas, The Happening is the latest, most dispiriting indication that writer-director M. Night Shyamalan has lost the touch that made The Sixth Sense a suspense classic and his standing as a young master of creepiness in the grand Hitchcock tradition. He's just 37, but his best films are so far behind him, it's as if he's forgotten how he made them work...
...Take a page from Hitchcock and hit the tube: I'm thinking a half-hour weekly sci-fi and adventure anthology series called "George Lucas Presents." Let the snobs think you're making pulp TV. Just like Rod Serling did on The Twilight Zone, you'll get away with all kinds of subversion...
...beta in March, is a gorgeous piece of interface design laid over a technically very sweet video player. The offerings are eclectic but compelling: a handful of current shows (The Office, The Simpsons, 30 Rock), a larger handful of "classic"--i.e., old and canceled--shows (Adam-12? Alfred Hitchcock Presents? Airwolf?) and a random, sometimes startling collection of movies (Point Break! The Big Lebowski! End of Days!). No wonder Hulu has reportedly already sold its entire advertising inventory. It's depressing to live in a world in which huge, faceless corporations can do something right...
...matters more than what they do separately; if one person punctures the bubble, the whole enterprise can deflate--and in R.E.M.'s case, it did. As three consecutive sonic duds got filed under R, Stipe started producing movies, Buck moonlighted with other bands (and slagged his own in Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death ... and Insects, a documentary about the singer), while Mills claims he contemplated quitting a few hundred times...
Jorma Elo’s “In On Blue,” on the other hand, was remarkable. Even on a titular level, it challenged the audience. The music was by Bernard Hermann, a composer who created numerous scores for Alfred Hitchcock films, and the lighting and costumes were overwhelmingly blue. The dancers jerked their arms and legs robotically. One ballerina even twitched perceptibly as she was laid on the stage floor...