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DIED. JANET LEIGH, 77, coolly seductive Hollywood star, who earned immortality as the cinema's prime slasher victim in Hitchcock's Psycho; of vasculitis; in Beverly Hills, Calif. She could have settled for being Tony Curtis' wife (for 11 years) and Jamie Lee's mother. But Leigh had a gaze as alert and sexy as any in movies. It bored into Frank Sinatra's frazzled psyche in The Manchurian Candidate; mixed fear and fire as a captive in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Even after she'd been killed in the Psycho shower (a model doubled her in some shots...
...Hitchcock need not be taken at its word, though. At its inception, documentary was a French term referring to any film with a factual subject, including instructional videos or promotional material...
...feature films, the director is God,” Alfred Hitchcock once quipped. “In documentary films, God is the director.” By this relatively narrow definition, the contemporary political non-fiction films that have been labeled documentaries are really more akin to feature films—Moore’s recitation from his commandeered ice cream truck, after all, easily qualifies as directorial lording...
John Grierson, whose monograph First Principles of Documentary set forth some of the genre’s initial conventions, took a more humanistic view than Hitchcock. He once stated: “In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real…is something deeper than that. The only reality which counts in the end is the interpretation which is profound...
DIED. JANET LEIGH, 77, coolly seductive Hollywood star, who earned immortality as the cinema's prime slasher victim in Hitchcock's Psycho; of vasculitis; in Beverly Hills, California. She could have settled for being Tony Curtis' wife (for 11 years) and Jamie Lee's mother. But Leigh had a gaze as alert and sexy as any in movies. It bored into Frank Sinatra's frazzled psyche in The Manchurian Candidate; mixed fear and fire as a captive in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Even after she'd been killed in the Psycho shower (a model doubled her in some shots...