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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Alfred Hitchcock</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/alfred-hitchcock/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:31:06 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Daphne Du Maurier/REBECCA Plagiarism Case</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/daphne-du-maurier-rebecca-plagiarim-carolina-nabuco/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/daphne-du-maurier-rebecca-plagiarim-carolina-nabuco/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:20:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37184</guid> <description><![CDATA[Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca, made into a 1940 Academy Award-winning movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is getting the movie-remake treatment: see my previous post, Alfred Hitchcock/Rebecca Remake Announced. Many will surely be accusing Hollywood of having no imagination whatsoever, ignoring the fact that movie remakes have been around for as long as movies have been around. [Photo: Daphne Du Maurier.] Now, even less well-known in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/daphne-du-maurier-rebecca-plagiarim-carolina-nabuco/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Alfred Hitchcock/REBECCA Remake</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-rebecca-remake-joan-fontaine/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-rebecca-remake-joan-fontaine/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:03:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37182</guid> <description><![CDATA[Hollywood has been running out of ideas since filmmakers started making movies in Hollywood. Even the first &#34;official&#34; movie made in Hollywood proper, Cecil B. DeMille's 1914 Western The Squaw Man, wasn't an original story. DeMille's Western was based on Edwin Milton Royle's play. And prior to that, there had been movie shorts with titles such as The Squaw and the Man (1910), Cow-boy and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-rebecca-remake-joan-fontaine/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>BAFTA Fellowship: Few Women, Few Outside UK/Hollywood, Steven Spielberg Before Bergman, Fellini, Wilder</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bafta-fellowship-alfred-hitchcock-steven-spielberg-alec-guinness/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bafta-fellowship-alfred-hitchcock-steven-spielberg-alec-guinness/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:42:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36447</guid> <description><![CDATA[Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho set The first recipient of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Fellowship, &#34;awarded in recognition of outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image,&#34; was director Alfred Hitchcock in 1971. Dozens of film, television, and assorted media personalities have become BAFTA Fellows since then, though the pattern here &#8212; as most elsewhere &#8212; is that achievements by men [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bafta-fellowship-alfred-hitchcock-steven-spielberg-alec-guinness/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AFI Life Achievement Award Winners: From John Ford to Shirley MacLaine</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/afi-life-achievement-award-winners/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/afi-life-achievement-award-winners/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 03:00:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25312</guid> <description><![CDATA[Orson Welles in Welles' own Citizen Kane (top); Gregory Peck, Brock Peters in Robert Mulligan's To Kill a Mockingbird (middle); Barbra Streisand in William Wyler's Funny Girl (bottom) This list of AFI Life Achievement Award winners was culled from Wikipedia. The number on the right represents the honorees' age at the time of the award. Shirley MacLaine will be 78 next June 7. 1973 John [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/afi-life-achievement-award-winners/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Found Film NOT Alfred Hitchcock&#039;s First</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-woman-to-woman-betty-compson/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-woman-to-woman-betty-compson/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:51:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27508</guid> <description><![CDATA[Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Woman to Woman Despite some confusion in various reports, the 1923 melodrama The White Shadow, half of which was recently found at the New Zealand Film Archive, is not Alfred Hitchcock's directorial debut. It isn't Hitchcock's first ever credited effort, either. That honor apparently belongs to Woman to Woman, which came out earlier that same year. The White Shadow, in fact, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-woman-to-woman-betty-compson/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Alfred Hitchcock&#039;s Early (Non-Directorial Effort) THE WHITE SHADOW Found</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-the-white-shadow-found-new-zealand/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-the-white-shadow-found-new-zealand/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:50:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27507</guid> <description><![CDATA[Betty Compson, The White Shadow About thirty minutes from the long thought-lost The White Shadow / White Shadows (1923), believed to be the earliest surviving feature with an Alfred Hitchcock credit, has been unearthed at the New Zealand Film Archive. Directed by Graham Cutts, and starring Betty Compson and Clive Brook, The White Shadow was found among a number of unidentified American nitrate prints safeguarded [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-the-white-shadow-found-new-zealand/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Alfred Hitchcock on TCM: I CONFESS, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-i-confess-strangers-on-a-train/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-i-confess-strangers-on-a-train/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:21:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27331</guid> <description><![CDATA[Montgomery Clift, I Confess Alfred Hitchcock is the focus of tonight's programming on Turner Classic Movies, which will be showing five of the director's films: Stage Fright, I Confess, Dial M for Murder, The Wrong Man, and Strangers on a Train. None of them is a masterpiece; all of them are worth your time. My favorite of the five is I Confess, partly because of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-i-confess-strangers-on-a-train/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Hugh Stewart, 100, Dies: Edited Alfred Hitchcock&#039;s Original THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/hugh-stewart-death-film-editor-hitchcock/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/hugh-stewart-death-film-editor-hitchcock/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:42:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27217</guid> <description><![CDATA[Editor-turned-producer Hugh Stewart, among whose credits is Alfred Hitchcock's original version of The Man Who Knew Too Much, died at his home in Denham, in the United Kingdom, on May 31. Stewart was 100 years old. One of Hitchcock's most respected British efforts, the 1934 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much is considered by many to be far superior to the 1956 Hollywood [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/hugh-stewart-death-film-editor-hitchcock/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Farley Granger Dies: ROPE, SENSO, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/farley-granger-dies-rope-senso-strangers-on-a-train/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/farley-granger-dies-rope-senso-strangers-on-a-train/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:30:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26762</guid> <description><![CDATA[Farley Granger in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (top); Farley Granger, Robert Walker in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (bottom) Farley Granger, best known for the Alfred Hitchcock thrillers Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951), and for Luchino Visconti's period romantic drama Senso (1954), has died. Variety reports that Granger, who was 85, died of &#34;natural causes&#34; in New York City. One of the best-looking [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/farley-granger-dies-rope-senso-strangers-on-a-train/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>STRAW DOGS Review Pt.4 &#8211; Sam Peckinpah &quot;More Barbaric Version of Alfred Hitchcock&quot;</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/straw-dogs-review-sam-peckinpah-alfred-hitchcock/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/straw-dogs-review-sam-peckinpah-alfred-hitchcock/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:34:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26667</guid> <description><![CDATA[STRAW DOGS Review: Part III In his defense, Clover is not the only critic who has butchered their interpretation of the film. The infamous Pauline Kael loved Straw Dogs, but mislabeled it &#34;fascist,&#34; as if a band of local loonies are the equivalent of a nationwide junta, while many of her female acolytes condemned both the film and the director for &#34;misogyny.&#34; Even the powerful [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/straw-dogs-review-sam-peckinpah-alfred-hitchcock/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Alfred Hitchcock&#039;s REBECCA, Gene Tierney&#039;s DRAGONWYCK, Horror Omnibus DEAD OF NIGHT on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-rebecca-gene-tierney-dragonwyck-dead-of-night/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-rebecca-gene-tierney-dragonwyck-dead-of-night/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:04:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25415</guid> <description><![CDATA[Michael Redgrave in the &#34;The Ventriloquist's Dummy&#34; segment in Dead of Night (top); Gene Tierney in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Dragonwyck (middle); Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (bottom) Turner Classic Movies' horror/mystery/suspense Halloween marathon kicks off this evening with a showing of the 1945 British classic Dead of Night, which, 65 years later, remains one of the best efforts in the psychological-horror genre. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-rebecca-gene-tierney-dragonwyck-dead-of-night/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gary Cooper-Lilli Palmer&#039;s CLOAK AND DAGGER, Hitchcock&#039;s SHADOW OF A DOUBT: LACMA&#039;s Film Foundation Tribute</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gary-cooper-lilli-palmer-cloak-and-dagger-hitchcock-shadow-of-a-doubt/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gary-cooper-lilli-palmer-cloak-and-dagger-hitchcock-shadow-of-a-doubt/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:04:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25380</guid> <description><![CDATA[Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer in Fritz Lang's Cloak and Dagger (top); Carroll Baker in Elia Kazan's Baby Doll (bottom) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art's 20th Anniversary Tribute to The Film Foundation ends this weekend, with a screening of Fritz Lang's Cloak and Dagger (1946), a spy thriller/film noir starring Gary Cooper and Lilli Palmer, and Alfred Hitchcock's personal favorite film, Shadow of a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gary-cooper-lilli-palmer-cloak-and-dagger-hitchcock-shadow-of-a-doubt/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Packard Campus Sept. 2010 Schedule: Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Nixon Home Movies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-richard-nixon-home-movies-packard-campus/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-richard-nixon-home-movies-packard-campus/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:28:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25085</guid> <description><![CDATA[Katharine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Errol Flynn, Thelma Todd: Packard Campus Sept. '10 Schedule and film synopses from the Packard Campus press release. Thursday, Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m. “Some Like it Hot” (United Artists, 1959) When two Roaring 20s musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. This classic comedy was selected for [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-richard-nixon-home-movies-packard-campus/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Henry Fonda on TCM: THE WRONG MAN, 12 ANGRY MEN, THE LADY EVE</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/henry-fonda-tcm-the-wrong-man-12-angry-men-the-lady-eve/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/henry-fonda-tcm-the-wrong-man-12-angry-men-the-lady-eve/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:07:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25072</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#160; Henry Fonda, like James Stewart and Gary Cooper, was one of the prototypical &#34;All-American&#34; actors of the studio era. But if you believe that Fonda's generally one-dimensional characters represented the average American male, then my guess is that you've just landed on planet Earth and you've never met an American &#8212; or any human being, for that matter. Poor Henry Fonda was stuck playing [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/henry-fonda-tcm-the-wrong-man-12-angry-men-the-lady-eve/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Iconic Art Director Robert F. Boyle Dies: Alfred Hitchcock, Norman Jewison Collaborator</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/robert-f-boyle-dies-iconic-art-director-alfred-hitchcock/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/robert-f-boyle-dies-iconic-art-director-alfred-hitchcock/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:23:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24891</guid> <description><![CDATA[Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, North by Northwest Iconic Production Designer Robert F. Boyle, who collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock and Norman Jewison, and the recipient of an Honorary Oscar in 2008, died Sunday, Aug. 1, of natural causes following a two-day stay at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 100. The Hitchcock films on which Boyle worked are: as associate art director, Saboteur [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/robert-f-boyle-dies-iconic-art-director-alfred-hitchcock/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Early Alfred Hitchcock Movies in Need of Restoration</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-movies-restoration-bfi/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-movies-restoration-bfi/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:17:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24843</guid> <description><![CDATA[Two early Alfred Hitchcock efforts: Ivor Novello in The Lodger (top); Anny Ondra in Blackmail (bottom) &#34;Rescue the Hitchcock 9&#34; is the name of a campaign by the British Film Institute to save nine Alfred Hitchcock silent films, among them Blackmail (1929), shot as both a silent and a talkie. &#34;Be part of the challenge to bring these rare films back from the brink and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-movies-restoration-bfi/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Alfred Hitchcock, Sam Peckinpah, Hayley Mills, Pola Negri: Packard Campus Screenings</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-sam-peckinpah-hayley-mills-pola-negri/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-sam-peckinpah-hayley-mills-pola-negri/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:17:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24601</guid> <description><![CDATA[A victim in Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 thriller Frenzy What do Alfred Hitchcock, Sam Peckinpah, Hayley Mills, and Pola Negri have in common? Well, all four film celebrities will have their work featured this week at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Va. Note: Hitchcock and Pola Negri have one less thing in common. Frenzy and The Moon-Spinners have been [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-sam-peckinpah-hayley-mills-pola-negri/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Alfred Hitchcock&#039;s PSYCHO Turns 50</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-psycho-turns-50-janet-leigh/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-psycho-turns-50-janet-leigh/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:51:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24554</guid> <description><![CDATA[Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho caused a sensation when it opened in June about fifty years ago. There were a number of reasons for that, one of them being the fact that Psycho was seen by some as a sensational, perverse, &#34;cheap&#34; horror flick like those William Castle, a master at promotional gimmicks, was making in the late '50s, e.g., The Tingler, House on Haunted Hill, Macabre. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-psycho-turns-50-janet-leigh/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Norman Lloyd (Hitchcock&#039;s SABOTEUR, Chaplin&#039;s LIMELIGHT) Evening in Hollywood</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/norman-lloyd-film-actor-hollywood/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/norman-lloyd-film-actor-hollywood/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:42:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24039</guid> <description><![CDATA[Actor Norman Lloyd, 95, will discuss his lengthy film and stage career on Wednesday, May 12, at 7:30 p.m. at the Hollywood Heritage Museum in the Lasky-DeMille Barn across from the Hollywood Bowl. The evening will include a screening of Matthew Sussman's documentary Who Is Norman Lloyd?. Lloyd, seen above with Priscilla Lane in Alfred Hitchcock's 1942 thriller Saboteur (in which Lloyd had the title [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/norman-lloyd-film-actor-hollywood/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Martin Scorsese-Leonardo DiCaprio&#039;s SHUTTER ISLAND to Top Box Office</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/shutter-island-scorsese-dicaprio-box-office-56783/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/shutter-island-scorsese-dicaprio-box-office-56783/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:13:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22112</guid> <description><![CDATA[Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island: Is that a Na'vi tagging me? Valentine's Day may lure considerably fewer filmgoers this coming weekend, but don't expect holdover Avatar to soar to the top of the box office. James Cameron's sci-fi adventure is headed to its 10th successful weekend, but the big winner will surely be the latest Martin Scorsese-Leonardo DiCaprio collaboration, Shutter Island, a crime thriller Laeta [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/shutter-island-scorsese-dicaprio-box-office-56783/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Alfred Hitchcock&#039;s British Thrillers at LACMA</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/alfred-hitchcock-british-thrillers-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/alfred-hitchcock-british-thrillers-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:32:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18860</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dame May Whitty, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave in The Lady Vanishes (top); Robert Donat in The 39 Steps (bottom) On Nov. 27-28, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will present the last four films in its &#34;Hitchcock: The British Thrillers&#34; series. They are: The 39 Steps (1935), starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll; Number 17 (1932), featuring the now-forgotten John Stuart and Anne Grey; [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/alfred-hitchcock-british-thrillers-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Grace Kelly: TO CATCH A THIEF, HIGH SOCIETY, THE SWAN</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/grace-kelly-high-society-the-swan-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/grace-kelly-high-society-the-swan-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:10:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18787</guid> <description><![CDATA[Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra in High Society Turner Classic Movies' Grace Kelly series comes to a close with a screening of the actress' last three films: Alfred Hitchcock's comedy-adventure To Catch a Thief (1955), co-starring Cary Grant; Charles Walters' musical High Society (1956), a remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940) with Kelly as the woman between Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby; and Charles Vidor's romantic [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/grace-kelly-high-society-the-swan-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Grace Kelly on TCM: REAR WINDOW, THE COUNTRY GIRL</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/grace-kelly-rear-window-the-country-girl/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/grace-kelly-rear-window-the-country-girl/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:46:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18414</guid> <description><![CDATA[James Stewart, Grace Kelly in Rear Window Turner Classic Movies' Grace Kelly series continues this Thursday, Nov. 12, with three of Kelly's biggest hits, all from 1954: Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and The Country Girl. Kelly, who died in 1982 following a car accident in Monaco, would have turned 80 on Nov. 12. Some consider Dial M for Murder a minor Alfred Hitchcock [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/grace-kelly-rear-window-the-country-girl/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Grace Kelly on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/grace-kelly-on-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/grace-kelly-on-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18325</guid> <description><![CDATA[Stating the obvious: most people take great pleasure in idealizing their idols &#8212; which is why idols are idols. Whether we're talking of gods, saints, prophets, or pop stars, the process is pretty much the same: flaws are expunged, deeds that never took place are turned into (at times miraculous) facts, the Pantheon of the Immortals becomes their abode following their earthly demise. (In some [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/grace-kelly-on-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR d: Anthony Asquith</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/a-cottage-on-dartmoor-anthony-asquith/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/a-cottage-on-dartmoor-anthony-asquith/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:36:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Doug Johnson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18188</guid> <description><![CDATA[A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929) Direction: Anthony Asquith Screenplay: Anthony Asquith; from a story by Herbert Price Cast: Norah Baring, Uno Henning, Hans Schlettow &#160; Uno Henning in A Cottage on Dartmoor &#160; Very little in a career overview of filmmaker Anthony Asquith prepares a viewer for the brilliant thriller A Cottage on Dartmoor, released by Kino, which he both wrote (from a story by [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/a-cottage-on-dartmoor-anthony-asquith/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AFI FEST 2009: SOMETHING&#039;S GONNA LIVE, NORTH BY NORTHWEST</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/afi-fest-2009-art-directors-north-by-northwest/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/afi-fest-2009-art-directors-north-by-northwest/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:41:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=17889</guid> <description><![CDATA[Cary Grant in North by Northwest Among the highlights of AFI FEST 2009 is the Nov. 2 screening of AFI Conservatory Alumnus Daniel Raim's documentary Something's Gonna Live, which profiles several behind-the-scenes Hollywood veterans &#8212; most of whom have already passed away &#8212; including production designers Robert Boyle (who turned 100 this past Oct. 10), Henry Bumstead (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sting), Harold Michelson [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/afi-fest-2009-art-directors-north-by-northwest/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jack Cardiff</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/jack-cardiff/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/jack-cardiff/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:55:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=10526</guid> <description><![CDATA[Cinematographer and director Jack Cardiff, one of the early masters of color cinematography, has died. He was 94. Cardiff's work as a cinematographer was quite eclectic, ranging from his partnership with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in the British-made Black Narcissus (1945) and The Red Shoes (1948) to prestigious international productions such as John Huston's The African Queen (1951) and King Vidor's War and Peace [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/jack-cardiff/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Great Directors Series on Turner Classic Movies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/great-directors-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/great-directors-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:00:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=10503</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeanne Moreau, Henri Serre, Oskar Werner in François Truffaut's Jules et Jim In June, Turner Classic Movies' month-long series &#34;Great Directors&#34; will be celebrating the efforts of 52 films directors, from past and present, from Hollywood and overseas (though, as to be expected, mostly Hollywood). Among TCM's &#34;greats&#34; are, inevitably, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Steven Spielberg, and John Ford, but also Jacques Tourneur, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/great-directors-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1940</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1940/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1940/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:57:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4331</guid> <description><![CDATA[Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath FILM The Blue Bird d: Walter Lang; scr: Ernest Pascal The Grapes of Wrath d: John Ford; scr: Nunnally Johnson Kitty Foyle d: Sam Wood; scr: Dalton Trumbo The Letter d: William Wyler; scr: Howard Koch The Mark of Zorro d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: John Tainton Foote, Garrett Fort, Bess Meredyth Pinocchio d: Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen; scr: [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1940/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1938</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:16:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11619</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold in You Can't Take It with You FILM The Adventures of Robin Hood d: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley; scr: Seton I. Miller, Norman Reilly Raine Bringing Up Baby d: Howard Hawks; scr: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde Dramatic School d: Robert B. Sinclair; scr: Ernest Vajda, Mary McCall Jr. L'Etrange Monsieur Victor d: Jean Grémillon; scr: Albert Valentin, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joan Harrison and Alfred Hitchcock at Movie Morlocks</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/joan-harrison-alfred-hitchcock/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/joan-harrison-alfred-hitchcock/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:54:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=9067</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca At the Turner Classic Movies blog Movie Morlocks, Moira Finnie discusses screenwriter-producer Joan Harrison: &#34;'Women,' writer-producer Joan Harrison (1907-1994) told the New York Times in 1943, 'must have something to pull for, you know, whether it’s a dog, a horse, an old beggar – or even another woman!' &#34;If pioneering writer and producer Harrison is remembered today at [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/joan-harrison-alfred-hitchcock/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2008: Robert Boyle to Receive Honorary Oscar</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-boyle-honorary-oscar/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-boyle-honorary-oscar/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:53:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-boyle-honorary-oscar/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest Production designer Robert Boyle, 98, a veteran with nearly 100 highly eclectic film credits &#8212; ranging from Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954) to Portnoy's Complaint (1972) &#8212; will receive an Honorary Oscar at the 2008 Academy Awards ceremony on February 24, 2008, &#34;in recognition of one of cinema's great careers in art direction.&#34; Boyle, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-boyle-honorary-oscar/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ivor Novello Remembered</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ivor-novello-remembered/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ivor-novello-remembered/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2005 20:31:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=200</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#34;No Cardiff-born screen actor has ever been remotely as popular at the British box office as Ivor Novello,&#34; says author Dave Berry (Wales and Cinema: The First 100 Years) in the article &#34;Novello Could Have Been a Hollywood Star.&#34; A leading star on the London stage, Ivor Novello was brought to Hollywood by D.W. Griffith for the leading romantic role in the 1923 drama The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/ivor-novello-remembered/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Janet Leigh: PSYCHO Actress</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/janet-leigh/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/janet-leigh/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2004 05:47:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/janet-leigh/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Janet Leigh, Psycho Janet Leigh, whose shower scene in Psycho has become part of cinema's pop iconography, died yesterday, Oct. 3, at her home in Beverly Hills. She was 77. In the past year, Leigh had been suffering from vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels. Though best remembered as the greedy (and unlucky) office worker who gets stabbed a zillion times in the shower [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/janet-leigh/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1944</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1944/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1944/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:04:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4344</guid> <description><![CDATA[John Hodiak, Tallulah Bankhead in Lifeboat FILM I Bambini ci guardano / The Children Are Watching Us d: Vittorio De Sica; scr: Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Giulio Viola, Adolfo Franci, Margherita Maglione, Gherardo Gherardi Crime by Night d: William Clemens; scr: Joel Malone, Richard Weil Dragon Seed d: Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway; scr: Jane Murfin, Marguerite Roberts Laura d: Otto Preminger; scr: [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1944/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
