Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece, “Vertigo,” will screen on Sunday at a couple of theaters in Chattanooga. (Photo: Contributed). The Week in Film is a column dedicated to bringing awareness to award-winning films, special movie screenings, rereleases, limited-distribution runs and avant cinema that should ...

Most people know Alfred Hitchcock as Hollywood's Master of Suspense. Fewer people know that Hitchcock was also a life-long innovator who experimented with a number of formal cinematic techniques, from making a movie seemingly in one continuous take, as he did in 1948's Rope, to the pioneering ...

1. Psycho was based on a novel which was loosely inspired by a murderer and necrophile, by the name of Ed Gein. 2. It was the first American film to show a toilet on-screen. 3. And it was also Hitchcock's most financially successful film, grossing $32 million during its first theatrical release. 4. To preserve ...

The legacy of some of Hollywood's biggest names is in doubt this Oscar Sunday, tarnished by charges of sexual misconduct. But should that taint extend to their most beloved works? A question pondered by Tracy Smith in our Cover Story: If you need to be reminded why they called Alfred Hitchcock "The ...

After taking a course dedicated exclusively to Alfred Hitchcock, I fell in love with the director's body of work. Like all film auteurs, it is always best to examine Hitchcock pictures within the context of their larger filmography. Hitchcock is constantly playing and reinventing motifs, characters, situations, and, most ...

What you are remembering is “Breakdown,” an episode of the old “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” that originally aired Nov. 13, 1955, during the show's first season on CBS. In it, the late, great Joseph Cotten stars as heartless CEO William Callew, who, like Ebenezer Scrooge, gets a taste of the nastiness that he ...

*W Magazine asked “Get Out” director Jordan Peele to direct a fashion photo shoot that reimagines the work of Alfred Hitchcock with a woman of color in the lead role. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker enlisted Janelle Monae for his Hitchcock inspired “Noir Town” photoshoot. ADVERTISING. inRead invented ...

NEW YORK -- As he wrote The Woman in the Window, the author who calls himself A.J. Finn was thinking of a certain master of suspense: Alfred Hitchcock. "Hitchcock proved that suspense can be just as effective -- if not more so -- than surprise; that restraint and taste could trump sensational scare tactics ...

Welcome to SYFY WIRE's Crowdfunding Creators, a series that highlights original work by artists looking to make their way in the world on sheer talent and the kindness of strangers. The creators you read about here are in the midst of running campaigns via Kickstarter, GoFundMe, Indiegogo, and other ...