Alfred Hitchcock

Believe it or not, there’s much more to stage and screen legend Ethel Barrymore than the fact that she was Drew Barrymore’s great-aunt. In fact, Ethel Barrymore was the grand-dame …

Robert Boyle: Art director collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on the 1959 thriller North by Northwest, starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. Iconic Production Designer Robert Boyle (a.k.a. Robert F. Boyle), who …

The Godfather movies: Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 The Godfather. This week at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation’s in Culpeper, …

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror thriller 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 …

John Forsythe in Dynasty with Joan Collins and Linda Evans. John Forsythe, best known as the oil tycoon Blake Carrington on the television series Dynasty, died on April 1 at …

Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate: Top classic movies at “Last Remaining Seats” series in Los Angeles. The L.A. Conservancy has announced a list of tentative titles for the 2010 edition …

Grace Kelly. Stating the obvious: most people take great pleasure in idealizing their idols – which is why idols are idols. Whether we’re talking of gods, saints, prophets, or pop …

A Cottage on Dartmoor / Escape from Dartmoor with Uno Henning. Very little in a career overview of filmmaker Anthony Asquith prepares a viewer for the brilliant thriller A Cottage …

White couple, black baby: Sophie Okonedo as black daughter of white parents in Skin Winner of four audience awards, including at the AFI Dallas and Santa Barbara film festivals, Skin …

Writer, director, actor, and producer Carl Reiner, among whose feature-film credits are the George Burns hit Oh God! (1977) and several Steve Martin vehicles, is the subject of a mini-retrospective …

Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey, with William Powell. When I think of Carole Lombard, the first thing that comes to mind – well, the second, after her ditzy heiress …

Doris Day movies: The Man Who Knew Too Much with James Stewart. Sunday, Aug. 10, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: Doris Day Day on TCM. Performers like Doris Day usually …

James Stewart in Vertigo with Kim Novak. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ upcoming centennial tribute to James Stewart will feature film clips and onstage conversations with Stewarts’ friends …

Lifeboat cast (top) and Shadow of a Doubt cast (bottom): Alfred Hitchcock mid-1940s classics. Even though I’ve never been a major Alfred Hitchcock fan, I do find the vast majority of …

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Douglas Fairbanks in The Iron Mask. Last Remaining Seats: North by Northwest & Roman Holiday The Los Angeles Conservancy (website) will present the 21st Annual Last Remaining Seats film series …

Blow-Up (movie 1966) review: In his ‘Swinging London’ masterwork, Michelangelo Antonioni questions the perception of reality. David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave star.

Julie Andrews, whose film career spans more than four decades, will be the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award’s supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (sorry) recipient at the 2007 SAG Awards ceremony on Jan. …

Ivor Novello: Gay Icon and 1 of Alfred Hitchcock first major stars and ‘Keep the Home Fires Burning’ composer remembered in Cardiff as The Rat.

Next Door (movie 2005) review: Starring a fantastically off-kilter Kristoffer Joner, Pål Sletaune’s thriller ventures into territory that remained off-limits to Alfred Hitchcock.

Joel McCrea. Joel McCrea movies: LACMA’s ‘Centenary Tribute’ to Old Hollywood star Joel McCrea, the star of numerous light comedies, melodramas, and Westerns from the early the 1930s to the …

The Other Side of the Street / O Outro Lado da Rua (movie 2004) review: Shades of Alfred Hitchcock and Michelangelo Antonioni in Rio-set Fernanda Montenegro showcase.

Marathon Man (movie 1976) review: As a proudly evil Nazi, Laurence Olivier Is by far the best thing about John Schlesinger’s confusing and absurd political thriller. Dustin Hoffman stars.