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Let’s go back in time. Imagine with me that you’ve been given the chance to work with Alfred Hitchcock, cinema’s great master of suspense. The job? Help Hitch write the screenplay for his FINAL film, what would be the last big hurrah in his career. Fascinating prospect, isn’t it? This idea captivated me more in 2008 than any other. The first question you have to ask yourself is “are you qualified yet'”...
Xipojing Min, 21, is typical of the new breed of Chinese student coming to Britain: she is studying film and TV studies, and not the usual business or IT course beloved of old.
Contrary to popular belief, serial television did not begin with The Sopranos. In fact, many consider the genre to have originated where nearly all good TV shows do: in Britain, with the BBC's The Prisoner, which ran in 1967 and...
The third and likely final version of Eminem’s “Crack A Bottle” hit the Internet today, complete with new verses featuring Dr. Dre and 50 Cent. The track is expected to be included on the Slim Shady’s upcoming comeback LP Relapse, due out in the first quarter of 2009. As opposed to those previous five song [...]
At his peak in the 1940s, Michael Powell was in the top ranks of British film directors, alongside such contemporaries as David Lean, Carol Reed and Hollywood exile Alfred Hitchcock. read more
Over at his Think Again blog, Stanley Fish, the eminent literary critic, has listed his all-time favorite American films. The list is a good one, so we figured why not add some video clips to the mix, and give you a little taste of each classic. See the full list after the jump. And if [...]
Tuesdays at 7:30 PM 1/13: Grand Illusion (France: Jean Renoir, 1937) 1/20: Seven Samurai (Japan: Akira Kurosawa, 1954) 1/27: The Lady Vanishes (United Kingdom: Alfred Hitchcock, 1938) 2/3: Amarcord (Italy/France: Federico Fellini, 1973) 2/10: The Killer (Hong Kong: John Woo, 1989) 2/17: Walkabout (Australia: Nicholas Roeg, 1971) 2/24: The Seventh Seal (Sweden: Ingmar Bergman, 1957) 3/3: Cleo From 5...
We’ve had a bit of rain where I live recently, and it’s made me crave a certain type of movie. Since we’re in the midst of a fairly major remodeling project I haven’t had the chance to watch all of these, but I’m craving to (sometimes enjoying a bit of melancholy with a batch of [...]
What was Pat Hingle's greatest performance? I'd say his role as Warren Beatty's overbearing father in "Splendor in the Grass." But Hingle, a familiar character actor, gave dozens of fine performances over the years. He died Saturday at age 84...
The first year I did this (“locking” my “top movies of all time” list at the end of the year) it seemed a little pointless, but this is the fifth time now and it’s proving to be as good a snapshot as any of who I was at a particular point in time – the [...]
The Internet Movie Database Plot Summary goes like this: "When a woman for whom she was working is murdered, baby-sitter Lottie Slocum is excited to be the center of attention, and she also hopes to...
