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Sienna Miller (The Edge of Love), Toby Jones (Frost/Nixon), Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake) and Penelope Wilton (Iris) have signed on to star in a BBC Two drama about iconic filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. Written by Gwyneth Hughes, the as-yet-untitled 90-minute film – described by BBC Drama commissioner Ben Stephenson as “a riveting psychological portrait” – will [...]
Almost every aspect of Citizen Kane has been lauded, analysed and replicated to the point that it’s almost become a cliché of a film. At the same time the infamous War of The Worlds radio broadcast, and the (no doubt overstated) ensuing widespread panic at impending alien invasion, have become a leading urban legend. While Orson [...]
The 1955 Hitchcock thriller is perhaps not as revered as Psycho, Vertigo or Rear Window but it is a stylish, witty affair and the chemistry between Grace Kelly and Cary Grant is an absolute joy. It is a beautifully crafted film, a timepiece of a post-war, pre-60s Europe and it is the next film to [...]
If there was ever a biopic which suited the 3D format, surely a glimpse into Salvador Dali’s world must factor high on the list. Philippe Mora (a key figure from the Australian new wave of the 1970s and 80s) is both writing and directing a feature on the Surrealist artist’s life. Alan Cumming will take [...]
THR are naming Anthony Hopkins, soon to be seen in exorcist scarefest The Rite, as the man to don the suit of The Master of Suspense in Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, dealing with the director’s decision to make a low-budget black and white horror film at the height of his fame, and [...]
Here’s another wonderful Christmas present from the good people over at the BBC Archive. Following their captivating James Bond at the BBC online exhibition the BBC Archive have collected recorded interviews with the giants of Hollywood’s past which offer a wonderful and unique retrospective on Hollywood and movie making. Giants of the silent era are [...]
Cahiers du cinema should need no introduction and this new series of books come to us under their banner from Phaidon Press; ten books, ten directors named Masters of cinema and a more perfect Christmas present for the cinephile in your life I could not imagine. I’m familiar with each of the ten directors here [...]
The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films as ranked by the users of the biggest Internet movie site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of the Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie [...]
Deadline are reporting that Slingshot Productions and our own beloved BBC are looking to co-produce a loose, teen-oriented reworking of Hitchcock’s brilliant “Strangers on a Train”. If you haven’t seen it (do so immediately), Strangers is about two men who meet on a train and in the course of talking discover that each has someone in [...]
The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films as ranked by the users of the biggest internet movie site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of the Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie [...]
Since the announcement of this year’s selected films, the Cannes film festival machine has whirred on, with additions to that line-up and confirmation of some of the Out of Competition activities that attendees can look forward to. One particular highlight is the Cannes Classics programme of films, a selection of restored films and rediscovered lost [...]
As a passionate lover of films and a life long resident of Walthamstow in East London, I wanted to bring to your attention and gather some more support to an incredible battle that has gone on for around seven years to save our local cinema that was sold to the controversial Universal Church of The [...]
When you remake a Hitchcock film you need to learn from Gus Van Sant – even if you remake it shot for shot it still won’t be half the film that Hitch made. So the news from Latino Review that Paramount are looking to taxidermise one of Hitch’s finest, the 1941 suspense film Suspicion, does [...]
The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films, as ranked by the users of the biggest movie Internet site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of The Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie masses, [...]
