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...pantheon of great directors, Fritz Lang is a bit of an anomaly. Unlike his contemporary Alfred Hitchcock, who was canonized early on and remains a universally acknowledged god of cinema, Lang’s road to directorial fame was an oblique one. Although denounced by Siegfried Kracauer as a fascist in the forties, and then heralded by the French Cahiers du Cinema as an amateur in the sixties, his work has received a surprising dearth of critical attention. It has only been in the last few years that critics have begun to exhume many of his films and give...
...WITH A FRIEND LIKE HARRY A man who claims to be an old school pal encounters a luckless writer and his fractious family on a French highway. He sets about bettering their fortunes--an activity that requires a number of capital crimes. Director Dominik Moll exceeds Hitchcock in wry and energetic perversity in this dryly delicious movie...
...inspired works, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie from Montmartre. Both Bong and Jeunet have an eye for eccentric detail, produce a bagful of tricks and visual kink and find the most unlikely "feel good factor." Dogs' bark is more hysterical and a notch or two rougher than Amelie. Part Hitchcock's Rear Window, part Monty Python's Parrot Sketch, Bong's Dogs may be this year's most inventive Asian film...
Hordes of squawking birds swarming in trees and covering the John Harvard Statue have put Hitchcock on students’ brains this fall...
...hundreds and thousands of birds swirling around like a scene from Hitchcock, and then land on a tree and shut up,” said Steven J. Padnick ’02, describing his aviary encounter at the Carpenter Center last Tuesday. “That scared...