Word: hitchcocked
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...Plumtree might sound more like an after-school club than a band. But Plumtree is actually more successful at crafting a song and putting together an album than the majority of bands pigeonholed as "college rock." Their themes are not especially ambitious--many songs deal with teenage experiences and Hitchcock movies--but they are simple and universal. If the band sounds naive, they use naivete to their advantage; the simplicity of the lyrics accentuates their mastery of the music. The songs are necessarily ephemeral, yet it is their charm remains after the music comes...
...fact see Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, since it is being rereleased in a new, clean print in eight cities. There are several scary scenes in the movie, but none as terrifying as when Kim Novak presents her remade self to Jimmy Stewart. She is dressed in a gray suit and a white blouse, and her hair is done up in a seascape of blond waves. Stewart has wholly recreated her in the image of the dead woman he loved. Only, as the plot twists, and though Stewart does not yet know it, this is the dead woman he loved...
...redemption as the protagonists themselves. There seems a matter-of-fact weariness even to the children at play in the street, as if to sense that their lives will never lose this frivolous emptiness, that the games will only get more complex, the stakes higher. The soundtrack alternates between Hitchcock-esque legibility, with every twist in the plot accompanied by a clashy crescendo, and a Eliot-esque silence, the whisper that signals the end of the world...
...Britain, film art lagged. Stage actors were ashamed of their film work. The trick, as John Gielgud says with a smile, was to "Shut your eyes...and think of England." Britain's most gifted director, Alfred Hitchcock, didn't think of England; he learned his trade from the Americans and the Germans. On the set, instead of "Action!" he'd cry "Achtung!" Cinema Europe reveals him as an impishly sadistic fellow--he is seen lifting an actress' skirt while she tries to rehearse. But Hitch could make movies; Hollywood saw that. He went to the U.S., as had Lubitsch, Lang...
...study at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center found that one of the best predictors of survival among 232 heart-surgery patients was the degree to which the patients said they drew comfort and strength from religious faith. Those who did not had more than three times the death rate of those...