If I had to review Stephen Rebello’s Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho in one word, it would be “enjoyable.”
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Perhaps the most unfortunate thing about Culture and Anarchy, Matthew Arnold’s series of essays that were later collected together as a book, is the title. No matter how many times I tell students–and I do–”Thus …
When I visited Italy in the Summer of 2001, one of my stops was at a small shrine/museum in Rome, not far from ruins of the Roman senate and places of government. It was an …
One of the underrated pleasures of being a cinephile is sharing a first viewing experience of a classic film with a friend or loved one who is viewing it for the first time. Sometimes new …
I can’t remember if I’ve ever actually seen a Chaplin movie in its entirety before A King in New York, and it was not at all what I expected. There are parts of it that …
A lot of films can break your heart–a precious few can enlarge and renovate it.
Vincent Paronnaud’s and Marjane Satrapi’s animated film of the latter’s graphic novel is one of those precious few. It invites comparison …
The director is a genius, but the film is a turkey.
So Peter Bogdanovich is anxious to tell us on the commentary track for Howard Hawks’s sword and sandal epic, Land of the Pharaohs.
