Word: hitchcock
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...story, from John Bingham's novel Five Roundabouts to Heaven, was first dramatized in 1962 for an Alfred Hitchcock Hour called "The Tender Poisoner," with Dan Dailey as the husband, Jan Sterling as the wife and Howard Duff as the friend. Here, in the script that director Ira Sachs has written with Oren Moverman, the tale in set in the late '40s - prime time for film noir, whose shadowy contours and sleek period architecture the Sachs movie mimes. Of late, noir has often been pretzeled into post-modernism: by Joel and Ethan Coen in The Man Who Wasn't There...
...members usually dismissed science fiction and horror as candidates for Best Picture--from the 1933 King Kong (just a trick movie) to Psycho (just an exercise in sadism from a director, Alfred Hitchcock, who should know better) to 2001 (what was that about?). Jaws and Star Wars did get Best Picture nominations but didn't take the top prize. See, these weren't people movies; they were simply the sum of their monster or sci-fi special effects...
...indignity as his work on Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York and The Aviator lost out to that of other, lesser directors. (He finally copped the Oscar last year, at 64, for The Departed.) And yet they all have the edge on Hitchcock and Hawks, who never won a competitive Oscar...
...Boston a little bit, this might be just the ticket: a walking tour of Beacon Hill on Halloween night, highlighting the neighborhood’s mysterious history. Wednesday, Oct. 31, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Meet on the steps of the State House, Beacon Street, Boston. $15. 4) Hitchcock and Hymns? Cozy up inside magnificent Trinity Church and watch the Alfred Hitchcock classic “Rear Window,” starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly. Costumes optional. Free pizza will be served. Sunday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m. Trinity Church, 206 Clarendon St., Boston. Free admission. 5) Bloody...
...gave every evidence of enjoying his time on earth: spinning anecdotes about the actors and playwrights he knew, or devouring a Bay's English muffin, or working on his flower and vegetable garden in his New Preston, Conn., home. When Mary curated a Museum of Modern Art exhibition on Hitchcock, and the director's daughter Pat came to New York, George graciously and eagerly joined us at Orso to reminisce with her about their days in Golden...