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...Lawrence of Arabia and the 1965 Doctor Zhivago. The French composer, who died Sunday in Los Angeles at 84, after a losing bout with cancer, wrote the scores for more than 150 features, but he'll always be associated with Lean, as much as Bernard Herrmann is with Alfred Hitchcock or John Williams with Steven Spielberg. The director devises the images; the composer gives them emotional heft. Both the pictures and their accompanying sounds lodge indelibly in moviegoers' memories. (See pictures of the Venice Film Festival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Epic Composer Maurice Jarre Dies at 84 | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...Though the most famous ones were in the genres of horror (House of Wax, Creature from the Black Lagoon) and science fiction (It Came from Outer Space), the format also attracted A-list directors. The Vincente Minnelli musical Kiss Me Kate was shot in 3-D, as was Alfred Hitchcock's Dial 'M' for Murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 3-D or Not 3-D: That Is the Question | 3/28/2009 | See Source »

...them with the near fanatic fidelity of someone constructing an Eiffel Tower replica out of matchsticks. To Watchmen, he brings a reverence for the text that equals Mel Gibson's in The Passion of the Christ and comes close to Gus Van Sant's shot-by-shot remake of Hitchcock's Psycho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchmen: Hero Worship | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...Watchmen he brings a reverence for the text that equals Mel Gibson's in The Passion of the Christ and comes close to Gus Van Sant's shot-by-shot remake of the Hitchcock Psycho. He uses Gibbons' panels as virtual storyboards for his scenes, and quotes Moore's ripe dialogue verbatim. (From Rorschach's journal: "Beneath me, this awful city. It screams like an abattoir full of retarded children.... The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchmen Review: (A Few) Moments of Greatness | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...What else do we know about the Oscar tallies? Nothing. Did Greta Garbo or Cary Grant or Alfred Hitchcock, to pick three distinguished artists who never got competitive Oscars, ever come close to winning? If Kate Winslet takes Best Actress this year, did Meryl Streep lose by just a handful of votes, or was it a wipeout? The five previous times Winslet was a runner-up, or the past 10 times when Streep was nominated but not called to the stage, was either star even within shouting distance? Which races were runaways over Oscar's 80 years, and which were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Fix the Oscars: Make the Votes Public | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

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