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VARIOUS ARTISTS: FOR THE KIDS TOO! Proceeds from this kids' alternative-rock collection benefit children with neurological disorders, but there are reasons other than charity to buy it. It combines playful tunes first recorded for grownups (Robyn Hitchcock's I Often Dream of Trains) with new originals and covers (among them a haunting, mandolin-laced My Favorite Things by Winnipeg band Nathan). It's a diverse hipster primer for your favorite alternatoddler...
...scene is a great one, awesomely played by the two actresses. The way terror can suddenly appear in the midst of banality, the basic irony that is the source of most modern horror fiction whether it be crude slasher pic or elegant Hitchcock classic, has never been more eloquently or economically stated. For Ana, at least, there is relief in hysterically speaking at last of what has been, for her, the unspeakable. For Alicia, however, the friend's nightmare only hints at the one that she herself is to face. Under the terror imposed by the junta, which ruled Argentina...
...their properties. RKO filmed Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely as an episode of the low-budget Falcon series in 1942 and then remade it as an A picture (Murder, My Sweet) two years later. In predigital days, directors like Cecil B. DeMille, Leo McCarey and Alfred Hitchcock didn't go back and "improve" their old movies, as Lucas did with Star Wars or Spielberg with E.T. They simply remade them 15 or 20 years later...
...ALFRED HITCHCOCK WAS FAMOUSLY DENIED PERMISSION TO SHOOT NORTH BY NORTHWEST IN THE U.N. WHAT POWERS OF PERSUASION DO YOU HAVE THAT HE DIDN...
SYDNEY POLLACK: I'm sure if Hitchcock were alive today, he'd be shooting at the U.N. It was time, honestly, more than anything else. We came at a moment when they were interested in opening up, and we came with good credentials, two terrific actors whose politics were known to the U.N. They were comfortable that we weren't going to make a picture where people were getting it on on the floor of the General Assembly...