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September 2014

  • Josiah McElheny - Artforum (01/Sep/2014)
    LIFEBOAT JEFF KOONS is like Alfred Hitchcock. Deeply invested in entertaining us with their personal obsessions, both the filmmaker and the artist have gone to great lengths to produce visual gratification. But underneath such diversions lies an unconscious ...
  • Foreign Correspondent by HDS Greenway - Boston Globe (01/Sep/2014)
    In 1940, Alfred Hitchcock released a film loosely based on “Personal Affairs,'' the autobiography of the brilliant and colorful journalist Vincent Sheean. The film's opening dedication apotheosized the American foreign correspondent — “To those intrepid ones ...
  • Rare Footage of Hitchcock Documentary “Night Will Fall” Comes to Light - HorrorMovies.ca (01/Sep/2014)
    As it premiered at the Telluride Film Festival just this past weekend, the re-mastered footage of the documentary helmed by Sidney Bernstein and remastered by Alfred Hitchcock himself is coming back to the big screen and evokes haunting memories of a ...
  • Tree of Life, Courtesy of Fox Searchlight - Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun (blog) (01/Sep/2014)
    Alfred Hitchcock once said that a filmmaker's technique — the way a filmmaker chooses to tell his story — is the most important thing to analyze when looking at a film, far more important than the content of the story. Hitchcock's analogy was that of a painter ...
  • The Week Ahead: Sept. 2 to 8 - Boca Raton (blog) (02/Sep/2014)
    Book-length studies psychoanalyzing the art and artifice of Alfred Hitchcock are nothing new. I'm looking at several on my own bookshelf—like Peter Conrad's The Hitchcock Murders and Thomas Leitch's Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games.
  • The Big Picture: Hitchcock! at the Hollywood Bowl - Film Music Society (03/Sep/2014)
    ... into fast-paced, seven-minute montage of clips from 41 Hitchcock films, brilliantly produced by editor Laura Gibson, set to Gounod's Funeral March of a Marionette (better known as the theme for TV's Alfred Hitchcock Presents) and Bernard Herrmann scores ...
  • Outdoor cinema to open for one night only in Leyton on Friday night - This is Local London (03/Sep/2014)
    A one-off outdoor cinema will open up on Friday night for a special screening of Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest. The 1959 spy thriller will be aired at the WaterWorks Centre Nature Reserve in Lammas Road, Leyton, with food and drinks from 7pm.
  • Outdoor cinema returns to borough - East London and West Essex Guardian Series (03/Sep/2014)
    A one-off outdoor cinema will open up on Friday night for a special screening of Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest. The 1959 spy thriller will be aired at the WaterWorks Centre Nature Reserve in Lammas Road, Leyton, with food and drinks from 7pm.
  • FRANK WEAVER, JR.: Plenty of candidates for a “Birds II” Film - Suburbanite (03/Sep/2014)
    If Hollywood ever decides to make a sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's horror suspense movie, “The Birds,” they need look no farther than Ohio's Portage Lakes for fine, feathered stars. Of course they'd have to fudge a bit, changing the birds from angry sea gulls to ...
  • Genesius takes Alfred Hitchcock's '39 Steps' to a new and hilarious level - The Mercury (03/Sep/2014)
    Genesius Theatre's current production puts a hilarious spin on the Alfred Hitchcock classic thriller, “The 39 Steps.” In fact it's more of a tornado than a spin — four talented actors change characters at lightning speed to put this bizarre plot in a whole new light.
  • World-first adaptation of Hitchcock classic leads MTC's 2015 season - Sydney Morning Herald (04/Sep/2014)
    A world premiere adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's legendary film North by Northwest will spearhead Melbourne's Theatre Company's season next year. A flying cropduster on stage might be considered a challenge for your average theatre company.
  • Spy thriller “North by Northwest”. Source: Supplied - Herald Sun (04/Sep/2014)
    ALFRED Hitchcock's thriller North by Northwest will be turned into a major stage show next year at the Melbourne Theatre Company. The world-first adaptation, written by Carolyn Burns and to be helmed by star director Simon Phillips, is the result of two years ...
  • Before I Go to Sleep, review: Conventional storytelling cries out for more ... - The Independent (04/Sep/2014)
    Before I Go to Sleep is the type of thriller that, a generation ago, Alfred Hitchcock might have made. Based on the bestselling 2011 novel by SJ Watson, its plot is in a similar vein to the Boileau-Narcejac stories that inspired Hitchcock's Vertigo, as well as Eyes ...
  • Before I Go To Sleep review and trailer: A chilling mystery produces memorable ... - Express.co.uk (04/Sep/2014)
    It has such a chilling, ingenious plot that you wished Alfred Hitchcock were still alive to make a film of it with maybe Ingrid Bergman suffering in style as the tormented heroine. Rowan Joffe is no Alfred Hitchcock but he has created a film with some of the style of ...
  • Before I Go to Sleep review: The spirit of Hitchcock looms over Nicole Kidman's ... - Mirror.co.uk (05/Sep/2014)
    The spirit of Alfred Hitchcock looms large over this moderate woman-in-peril psychological thriller that takes its inspiration from such disparate sources as Spellbound, Mulholland Drive and Groundhog Day. Despite striking performances – leading lady Nicole ...
  • Stockport Garrick Theatre to perform The 39 Steps - Manchester Evening News (05/Sep/2014)
    The 39 Steps, adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan and the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film, will be on at Stockport Garrick from Saturday, September 13, to Saturday, September 20. The screenplay of Hitchcock's 1935 film was a very loose ...
  • Reviews: Before I Go to Sleep, The Guest, Life of Crime, and Attlia Marcel - Irish Independent (05/Sep/2014)
    Only Hitchcock can do Hitchcock. 3 STARS. Eighties B movies are all the rage at the minute, and younger directors are constantly paying homage to them. An odd obsession if you ask me, but at least Adam Wingard's The Guest does a fantastic job of it.
  • Before I Go to Sleep (15A) - 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 50 First Dates' - Irish Independent (05/Sep/2014)
    Starring a typically hard-working Nicole Kidman as a short-term amnesiac unsure whether she's being played by her husband, her shrink or both, the film's wildly contrived premise could be more pithily described as Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 50 First Dates.
  • A 'crazy crow' is tormenting the people of a Co Louth village - Yahoo News UK (05/Sep/2014)
    First it was the seagulls. Now the crows are raucous. It's Alfred Hitchcock's cinematic nightmare, come to life. The village of Tullyallen in Co Louth is currently being terrorised by a mad crow, which pecks loudly at windows and tries to attack dogs and children.
  • The mystery of Alfred Hitchcock's lost Holocaust exposé - The Times (subscription) (05/Sep/2014)
    For 70 years it has been one of the great mysteries of British cinema. What truth is there to the claim that, at the end of the Second World War, Alfred Hitchcock directed a never-seen documentary about the German concentration camps? Was the film ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Hitchcock darling Tippi Hedren looking to back Princess Diana ... - Express.co.uk (07/Sep/2014)
    At 84, the star of two of Alfred Hitchcock's best films, The Birds and Marnie, is still a sprightly figure in the movie industry. British author Alan Power has been in contact with her agent about his controversial book, The Princess Diana Conspiracy: The Evidence ...
  • Tippi Hedren looking to back Princess Diana conspiracy film - Express.co.uk (07/Sep/2014)
    At 84, the star of two of Alfred Hitchcock's best films, The Birds and Marnie, is still a sprightly figure in the movie industry. British author Alan Power has been in contact with her agent about his controversial book, The Princess Diana Conspiracy: The Evidence ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Welcome to Australia! Hilary Duff lands Down Under and is ... - Daily Mail (08/Sep/2014)
    Like horror scenes taken directly out of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, Hilary Duff was plagued by a flock of hungry seagulls while eating lunch at Sydney's Opera bar on Monday. With views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the iconic Opera House, this ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock — Reluctant Pharma Rep - PharmExec.com (blog) (08/Sep/2014)
    In 1955, the broadcaster CBS proposed a deal with drugmaker Bristol-Myers (as it was then known) to sponsor a new TV show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The show, scheduled to premier later that year, would be a weekly anthology series focused on crime ...
  • OTC Drug Advertising: Alfred Hitchcock Style - PharmExec.com (08/Sep/2014)
    In 1955, the broadcaster CBS proposed a deal with drugmaker Bristol-Myers (as it was then known) to sponsor a new TV show, "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." The show, scheduled to premier later that year, would be a weekly anthology series focused on crime ...
  • Hitchcock-inspired The Silence now presenting on iOS and Android - Adventure Gamers (08/Sep/2014)
    The first of these, entitled The Silence, draws right from the top of the pile, aiming to emulate the trademark feel of the Master of Suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock. In The Silence, the main character finds himself waking in a dark and dingy motel room, alone ...
  • Hitchcock: His First Suspense Masterworks - Long Island Exchange (08/Sep/2014)
    (Long Island, NY) Film Historian LI'er Glenn Andreiev looks at Alfred Hitchcock's early works that marked him as a master filmmaker long before directing in Hollywood. Clips from his famous British films like The 39 Steps (1935) to lesser screened gems like ...
  • Irish Release Women's Hoops Sked - Stacey Page Online (09/Sep/2014)
    NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Nearly 80 years ago, a talented young British filmmaker named Alfred Hitchcock directed the classic thriller, “The 39 Steps.” And while one doesn't expect Muffet McGraw to be perched in a director's chair behind a camera, the Hall of ...
  • When we watched the movies - Hindustan Times (10/Sep/2014)
    "Cinema for me is not a slice of life but a piece of cake," said Alfred Hitchcock. The maxim describes my passion for movie-watching since teenage. Braving hot and humid weather to queue up outside Neelam and Kiran cinema houses in Chandigarh for the ...
  • Local birds under threat - The Telegram (10/Sep/2014)
    If Alfred Hitchcock were a biologist, as well as a master of suspense, he may have made a film based on a new report from The Audubon Society. A common loon. — Photo by Bruce Mactavish/Special to The Telegram. “The Climate Report” has declared that ...
  • Local birds under threat - Labradorian (10/Sep/2014)
    If Alfred Hitchcock were a biologist, as well as a master of suspense, he may have made a film based on a new report from The Audubon Society. A common loon. — Photo by Bruce Mactavish/Special to The Telegram. “The Climate Report” has declared that ...
  • STEP LIVELY - Yes! Weekly (10/Sep/2014)
    When Patrick Barlow wrote The 39 Steps, a stage adaptation based on Alfred Hitchcock's film, he certainly anticipated a lot more movement than that from the actors. In performing the high-energy comedy, Triad Stage's actors obliged with swift, chaotic and ...
  • A. D. Players Mainstage Theater's THE 39 STEPS Opens Tonight - Broadway World (10/Sep/2014)
    Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 adventure film, turned comedy, roars down the tracks and onto our stage as the first offering of an award-winning Mainstage season just for you. Suspense, romantic entanglements and laughs fill this derailed spy story that insures you ...
  • Local birds under threat - Clarenville Packet (10/Sep/2014)
    If Alfred Hitchcock were a biologist, as well as a master of suspense, he may have made a film based on a new report from The Audubon Society. A common loon. — Photo by Bruce Mactavish/Special to The Telegram. “The Climate Report” has declared that ...
  • Local birds under threat - Southern Gazette (10/Sep/2014)
    If Alfred Hitchcock were a biologist, as well as a master of suspense, he may have made a film based on a new report from The Audubon Society. A common loon. — Photo by Bruce Mactavish/Special to The Telegram ...
  • Suspense means to know and wait… - The Hindu (11/Sep/2014)
    Would you imagine that Alfred Hitchcock would be scared of anything at all? The maker of horror movies, the podgy director is petrified of policemen! “I never drive a car on the theory that if you do not drive a car you cannot get a ticket. I am scared of anything ...
  • Lifeboat lawyers - InsideCounsel (11/Sep/2014)
    One of Alfred Hitchcock's underrated masterpieces is a film called “Lifeboat,” a story of a group of characters cast adrift in -- you guessed it -- a lifeboat. Those characters did not choose to be stuck together and, of course, tension builds throughout the film.
  • Margaret Atwood sticks the knife in - Evening Standard (11/Sep/2014)
    Alfred Hitchcock, a connoisseur of the short story, compiled a volume called Stories That Scared Even Me, and some of the tales in Margaret Atwood's new collection, Stone Mattress, would have had the Master of Suspense shuddering in his shoes. Vengeful ...
  • WATCH ME IF YOU CAN : Hitchcock Classics - Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun (blog) (11/Sep/2014)
    Prior to the fall semester starting up, Cornell Cinema was abuzz, screening Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo multiple times. The psycho-thriller came out in 1958, starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak. Vertigo didn't initially impress critics nor film viewers, but ...
  • Station Theatre kicks off 2014-15 film series - www.insideottawavalley.com/ (11/Sep/2014)
    The Smiths Falls Station Theatre reboots its new season of high quality films with Alfred Hitchcock's famous Rear Window on Friday, Sept. 19, followed by The Birds on Saturday, Sept. 20. Both screenings start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets, sold at the door only, are $10 ...
  • The 39 Steps: Classic Thirties Movies - FemaleFirst.co.uk (12/Sep/2014)
    The thirties was a decade of great movies and one of the directors who making name for himself during that time was Alfred Hitchcock. In 1935, he brought the thriller The 39 Steps to the big screen, which came before he broke into America with Rebecca.
  • Review and trailer: Grand Piano (15) is a B-movie blast - Daily Star (13/Sep/2014)
    YOU need balls to take on Alfred Hitchcock. This thriller, set in a packed classical music concert, was clearly inspired by a famous sequence from The Man Who Knew Too Much. By Andy Lea / Published 14th September 2014. STAGE FRIGHT: Elijah Wood ...
  • Man in an apparent vegetative state responds to Hitchcock clip - Science Now (15/Sep/2014)
    To ensure that it would be easy for patients to pay attention, they chose an episode of the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents called “Bang! You're Dead.” The abridged, 8-minute episode has a simple, suspenseful plot, Naci says: A young boy with a toy gun ...
  • Hitchcock film used to detect consciousness in 'vegetative' patient - CTV News (15/Sep/2014)
    Ontario researchers used an Alfred Hitchcock film to detect brain activity in a patient who had been unresponsive for more than a decade. The researchers say their study raises questions about the techniques used to diagnose a patient as being “unconscious ...
  • Hitchcock show used to detect consciousness in 'vegetative' patient - CTV News (15/Sep/2014)
    Ontario researchers used an Alfred Hitchcock show to detect brain activity in a patient who had been unresponsive for more than a decade. The researchers say their study raises questions about the techniques used to diagnose a patient as being ...
  • Western University brain researchers make discovery about comatose ... - Chatham Daily News (15/Sep/2014)
    Using highly sophisticated brain scans, researchers were able to show that a man who has been in a coma for 16 years was able to follow and understand the plot of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. “It tells us that this patient is understanding real life events ...
  • A Hitchcock video helped find a conscious patient who'd been unresponsive for ... - The Verge (15/Sep/2014)
    And what they've come up with — a test that combines an Alfred Hitchcock TV show with an fMRI machine — isn't just significant for the future of brain science. It's also significant for one specific human being, as it allowed scientists to determine that a patient ...
  • Neuroscientists decode conscious experiences with Hitchcock film - Western News (15/Sep/2014)
    While inside the 3T Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Scanner at Western's Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, participants watched a highly engaging short film by Alfred Hitchcock. Movie viewing elicited a common pattern of synchronized brain ...
  • Video: Western University turns to Alfred Hitchcock flicks for brain research - MetroNews Canada (15/Sep/2014)
    The original master of suspense is helping Western University researchers gain a better understanding of patients in vegetative states. Researchers at the university's Brain and Mind Institute put a group of healthy people in an MRI scanner alongside ...
  • Hitchcock suspense movie helps detect awareness in patient in vegetative state - Brandon Sun (15/Sep/2014)
    A group of Canadian neuroscientists say they have successfully used a suspenseful Alfred Hitchcock movie to record the conscious experiences of a patient who has been in a vegetative state for 16 years. The researchers at Western University in London, ...
  • Hitchcock suspense movie helps detect awareness in patient in vegetative state - 570 News (15/Sep/2014)
    University of Western Ontario neuroscientists Adrian Owen and Lorina Naci are shown in a handout photo. The pair used a suspenseful Alfred Hitchock movie to record the conscious experiences of a patient who has been in a vegetative state for 16 years.
  • Alfred Hitchcock film offers neuroscientists clues to vegetative state - CBC.ca (15/Sep/2014)
    A short Alfred Hitchcock film has helped neuroscientists in London, Ont. to detect awareness in a Canadian who was thought to be in a purely vegetative state for 16 years. Researchers at Western University used a specialized MRI scanner to analyze the ...
  • Scientists Used a Hitchcock Thriller to Measure Patients' Consciousness - Gizmodo India (15/Sep/2014)
    Alfred Hitchcock, our master of suspense, was incredibly good at manipulating his audience-a fact that has now come in handy for neuroscientists. When they screened a Hitchcock thriller for volunteers in a brain scanner, they found that brain activity of a man ...
  • Hitchcock movie affects vegetative patient - NorthBayNipissing.com (15/Sep/2014)
    A group of Canadian neuroscientists say they have successfully used a suspenseful Alfred Hitchcock movie to record the conscious experiences of a patient who has been in a vegetative state for 16 years. The researchers at Western University in London, ...
  • Western Docs Use Hitchcock To Study Brain Activity - BlackburnNews.com (15/Sep/2014)
    The researchers discovered that a man who had been unresponsive for 16 years had similar brain responses to an Alfred Hitchcock film as health participants in the study. The subjects were shown a short film by the legendary director while they were in an ...
  • Hitchcock suspense clip helps detect awareness in patient in vegetative state - The Globe and Mail (15/Sep/2014)
    The researchers at Western University in London, Ont., released a paper Monday about a brain scanning technique that monitors the response of non-responsive patients to a shortened version of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode Bang! You're Dead.
  • Light in the dark: What if vegetative patients are actually conscious? - Macleans.ca (15/Sep/2014)
    In the new study, published in the journal PNAS, Owen's team describes showing healthy volunteers and two brain-injured patients, including Jeff (who is not identified in the study), a shortened version of a 1961 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents called ...
  • Western Researchers Use Hitchcock To Study Patients In Vegetative State - Am980 London News (15/Sep/2014)
    A group of Western University neuroscientists have started to use Alfred Hitchcock movies to determine if those in a vegetative state are still conscious. In a recent study, officials at the university put vegetative state patients into an MRI and played a short ...
  • THE 39 STEPS to Open Long Beach Playhouse's 86th Mainstage Season, 9/27 - Broadway World (16/Sep/2014)
    The 39 Steps, a suspenseful-romantic-comedy, based on the 1935 movie by Alfred Hitchcock, opens the Mainstage Season on Saturday, Sept. 27. Four actors play over 100 characters in this Tony-winner that kept Broadway rollicking for the past three years.
  • Alfred Hitchcock film helps researchers measure awareness in 'vegetative' patients - Raw Story (blog) (16/Sep/2014)
    Researchers in Canada found that a patient who has been unresponsive for nearly 20 years still showed awareness of his surroundings in a test involving a short film by director Alfred Hitchcock, The Verge reported on Monday. The team from the University of ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock film helps researchers measure awareness in 'vegetative' patients - Raw Story (16/Sep/2014)
    Researchers in Canada found that a patient who has been unresponsive for nearly 20 years still showed awareness of his surroundings in a test involving a short film by director Alfred Hitchcock, The Verge reported on Monday. The team from the University of ...
  • Scientists Used a Hitchcock Thriller to Measure Patients' Consciousness - Gizmodo (16/Sep/2014)
    Alfred Hitchcock, our master of suspense, was incredibly good at manipulating his audience—a fact that has now come in handy for neuroscientists. When they screened a Hitchcock thriller for volunteers in a brain scanner, they found that brain activity of a ...
  • Western neuroscientists decode vegetative state experiences with Hitchcock film - HealthCanal.com (16/Sep/2014)
    Researchers at Western University have extended their game-changing brain scanning techniques by showing that a short Alfred Hitchcock movie can be used to detect consciousness in vegetative state patients. The study included a Canadian participant ...
  • Hitchcock Film Affects Brain Activity of Man in Vegetative State 'the Same as ... - International Business Times UK (16/Sep/2014)
    Owen added: "The reason Alfred Hitchcock is such a great movie-maker in this context is that his movies are filled with layers of inference and deduction, and he uses a lot of foreshadowing. All those things require executive processing. Those aren't things ...
  • Neuroscientists decode conscious experiences with Hitchcock film - Medical Xpress (16/Sep/2014)
    (Medical Xpress)—Western researchers have extended their game-changing brain scanning techniques by showing that a short Alfred Hitchcock movie can be used to detect consciousness in vegetative state patients. The study included a Canadian ...
  • Man in vegetative state for 16 YEARS reacts to Hitchcock film: Brain scans show ... - Daily Mail (16/Sep/2014)
    You're Dead' episode of the TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents which had been condensed down to eight minutes. It showed a five-year-old carrying a partially loaded gun which she thinks is a toy. The child shouts 'bang' each time she aims at someone and ...
  • Western University neuroscientists decode vegetative state experiences with ... - Exchange Morning Post (press release) (16/Sep/2014)
    London - Researchers at Western University have extended their game-changing brain scanning techniques by showing that a short Alfred Hitchcock movie can be used to detect consciousness in vegetative state patients. The study included a Canadian ...
  • Hitchcock Film Affects Brain Activity of Man in Vegetative State 'the Same as ... - Yahoo News UK (16/Sep/2014)
    A patient in a vegetative state has shown the same brain activity while watching an Alfred Hitchcock film as healthy volunteers. For the study, published in the , scientists had participants watch an episode of the 1961 TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents to study ...
  • Brain injured man in vegetative state for 16 years responds to Hitchcock thriller - Times of India (16/Sep/2014)
    Using brain-scanning techniques, Canadian researchers have found that a person who had become completely unresponsive after a brain injury 16 years ago could follow an Alfred Hitchcock movie. The person was in a vegetative state usually thought to ...
  • Man in vegetative state reacts to Hitchcock film - India Today (16/Sep/2014)
    When the patient was shown the Alfred Hitchcock movie, the staff detected brain activity linked to feelings of anticipation and excitement. The brain patterns resembled that of healthy participants, suggesting not only that he was consciously aware, but also that ...
  • Man in Vegetative State 'Reacts' to Hitchcock Film - Newser (16/Sep/2014)
    And when the man took part in a new study published in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that his brain activity was similar to that of healthy viewers while watching an Alfred Hitchcock short. Study subjects ...
  • Romping Through (and over) Hitchcock with A.D. Players and The 39 Steps - Houston Press (blog) (16/Sep/2014)
    A.D. Players produces one of its freshest, funniest productions in memory with Patrick Barlow's adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps. This 2008 Tony-winner and Drama Desk award recipient for "unique theatrical experience" is just plain goofy - and ...
  • Another Conscious “Vegetable” - National Review Online (blog) (16/Sep/2014)
    A dozen volunteers watched Alfred Hitchcock for science while lying motionless in a magnetic-resonance scanner. Another participant, a man who has lived in a vegetative state for 16 years, showed brain activity remarkably similar to that of the healthy ...
  • Hitchcock film used to reveal consciousness in vegetative patients - Medical News Today (16/Sep/2014)
    Film director Alfred Hitchcock - "The Master of Suspense" - made thrillers that certainly captured his audience's imagination. But now, researchers from Western University in Canada have used one of his short films to reveal consciousness in patients in a ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock movie used in a coma study - Toronto Sun (16/Sep/2014)
    LONDON, Ont. -- It could be the plot of a chilling Alfred Hitchcock movie -- the comatose patient who understands everything going on around him. Western University brain researchers have used a film made by the master of suspense to help unravel the ...
  • Long Beach Playhouse 86th Mainstage Season Opens With The 39 Steps - Everything Long Beach (press release) (16/Sep/2014)
    The 39 Steps, a suspenseful-romantic-comedy, based on the 1935 movie by Alfred Hitchcock, opens the Mainstage Season on Saturday, Sept. 27. Four actors play over 100 characters in this Tony-winner that kept Broadway rollicking for the past three years.
  • Scientists Surprised by What They Saw in the Brain of a Vegetative Man While ... - TheBlaze.com (16/Sep/2014)
    Researchers at the University of Western Ontario used MRI to monitor the brain activity of healthy participants as well as this vegetative patient as they watched a short Alfred Hitchcock movie. What the scientists found was this patient exhibited similar brain ...
  • Hitchcock film reveals consciousness in vegetative patients - Delhi Daily News (16/Sep/2014)
    The study showed that patients in a vegetative state had brain activity levels equal to those of healthy controls while watching a Hitchcock film. Results of the study are published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
  • More than 12 million Americans work for nonprofits - Edmond Sun (16/Sep/2014)
    The 1964 Alfred Hitchcock movie “Marnie” starred Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren and was described in studio press releases as a “psychological thriller.” Hedren played Marnie, an attractive woman who steals from a series of employers and in one of her ...
  • Hitchcock thriller ignites brain activity in man in vegetative state - Tech Times (16/Sep/2014)
    We all know Alfred Hitchcock as the "Master of Suspense." The iconic filmmaker has made a career out of giving seemingly simple stories eerie and unimaginable twists. Other than studying Hitchcock's work in film school, we don't often associate his movies ...
  • Supposedly “vegetative” man responds to Hitchcock Thriller - National Right to Life News (16/Sep/2014)
    “A dozen volunteers watched Alfred Hitchcock for science while lying motionless in a magnetic-resonance scanner. Another participant, a man who has lived in a vegetative state for 16 years, showed brain activity remarkably similar to that of the healthy ...
  • Brain-Injured Man in Vegetative State for 16 years Responds to Alfred Hitchcock ... - International Business Times UK (16/Sep/2014)
    All of them watched a highly engaging short film directed by Hitchcock, including a person in a vegetative, unconscious, state. The participant in the long-time unresponsive state was seen to display similar brain activity patterns as the others while watching ...
  • New Approach To Vegetative Patients Proves Consciousness - PNC Voice (16/Sep/2014)
    The film industry considers Alfred Hitchcock “The Master of Suspense.” For decades his thrillers captured the imagination of audiences like no one else before him; and his style and creativity inspired an entirely new generation of storytellers for the suspense ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock Film Used To Ignite Brain Activity In Unresponsive Patients - Design & Trend (16/Sep/2014)
    Researchers from a university in Canada used an edited version of one of Hitchcock's short films to prove brain activity in patients. The patients that were examined were all in a vegetative state, according to Medical News Today. One patient had been in that ...
  • Faculty Artistry on Display - CSUF News (17/Sep/2014)
    Sept. 15, 2014. Julie Orser's "Madeleine," on display through Oct. 25 at Cal State L.A.'s Luckman Gallery, explores motifs in Alfred Hitchcock's classic "Vertigo." Two music faculty members are giving an upcoming concert, and the work of an assistant professor ...
  • Brain-Injured Man in Vegetative State for 16 years Responds to Alfred Hitchcock ... - Yahoo News UK (17/Sep/2014)
    All of them watched a highly engaging short film directed by Hitchcock, including a person in a vegetative, unconscious, state. The participant in the long-time unresponsive state was seen to display similar brain activity patterns as the others while watching ...
  • Man In Vegetative State For 16 Years Suddenly Responds To Alfred Hitchcock ... - International Business Times AU (17/Sep/2014)
    They discovered that while watching the Alfred Hitchcock clips, his brain activity was similar to a normal person's. The study is published in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It seemed like the man who was not conscious for years ...
  • Hitchcock suspense prompts brain activity in vegetative patient - RT (17/Sep/2014)
    A man who has been in a vegetative state for 16 years showed neural activity while watching a Hitchcock film. Researchers say that for the first time, they've discovered that “a patient with unknown levels of consciousness can monitor their environment.”.
  • Scientists Used A Hitchcock Thriller To Measure Patients' Consciousness - Gizmodo Australia (17/Sep/2014)
    Alfred Hitchcock, our master of suspense, was incredibly good at manipulating his audience — a fact that has now come in handy for neuroscientists. When they screened a Hitchcock thriller for volunteers in a brain scanner, they found that brain activity of a ...
  • Hitchcock thriller helps neuroscientists detect consciousness in vegetative patient - Tech Times (17/Sep/2014)
    A patient who was in a vegetative state and believed to be unresponsive for 16 years exhibited similar brain activities as healthy volunteers while watching an episode of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents' "Bang! You're dead," suggesting that he could follow and ...
  • Scientists Show Hitchcock Thriller To 'Vegetative' Man, Get Big Surprise - Huffington Post (17/Sep/2014)
    “The reason Alfred Hitchcock is such a great movie-maker in this context is that his movies are filled with layers of inference and deduction, and he uses a lot of foreshadowing,” Owen told Nature. “All those things require executive processing. Those aren't ...
  • REVIEW : 'The Guest' surprises with inventiveness - Queen Anne News (17/Sep/2014)
    Take an old-school-style slasher picture and cross it with an Alfred Hitchcock thriller. Then mix in Jason Bourne and “The Terminator.” And, finally, throw in a little bit of Lifetime family drama, and you've got Adam Wingard's giddy, bloody, exciting genre ...
  • REVIEW : 'The Guest' surprises with inventiveness - Madison Park Times (17/Sep/2014)
    Take an old-school-style slasher picture and cross it with an Alfred Hitchcock thriller. Then mix in Jason Bourne and “The Terminator.” And, finally, throw in a little bit of Lifetime family drama, and you've got Adam Wingard's giddy, bloody, exciting genre ...
  • Hitchcock films can find consciousness in the unresponsive - Tech Times (17/Sep/2014)
    Researchers in Canada say they have used a short film by Alfred Hitchcock to uncover consciousness in a patient in a vegetative condition who for 16 years had been completely unresponsive. Using the film and an MRI scanner, the researchers found that ...
  • Caption competition 95 - New Zealand Listener (18/Sep/2014)
    THE PRIZE: The winner of this week's caption competition will receive Alfred Hitchcock Directs, the complete collection from his TV series. TO ENTER: Send your captions for the photo above to caption@listener.co.nz, with “Caption Competition No 95” in the ...
  • The 39 Steps : HIT Productions - Australian Stage Online (18/Sep/2014)
    The 39 Steps started life as a spy thriller novel by John Buchan in 1915 and has formed the basis of a number of film adaptions, most notably Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 version. Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon adapted the story into a parody for stage in 1995 ...
  • Documentary tells of abandoned Hitchcock Nazi film - BBC News (18/Sep/2014)
    Sally Angel, producer of the new documentary called Night Will Fall, told Evan Davis on the Today programme that Alfred Hitchcock was brought in as the "supervising director" to "help tie the footage together and to work out a way in which the footage could ...
  • Street to Be Renamed for Musician Who Inspired Hitchcock's 'The Wrong Man' - DNAinfo (18/Sep/2014)
    ELMHURST — The man who inspired the Alfred Hitchcock suspense film "The Wrong Man" will have a street co-named for him in the neighborhood that served as the backdrop for the classic 1956 flick. The move is an honor for Manny Balestrero's family, ...
  • Night Will Fall: 'beyond heartbreaking' - Telegraph.co.uk (18/Sep/2014)
    The project began when army members and newsreel cameramen began to record the dreadful scenes uncovered by Allied Forces in 1944-45. The Ministry of Information's Sidney Bernstein summoned film talents including Alfred Hitchcock to help him bring ...
  • Weekend combinations: Mayweather remains perfect, but doesn't impress the ... - Doghouse Boxing (18/Sep/2014)
    In many of his films, famed movie director Alfred Hitchcock used a term called a MacGuffin. Usually, a MacGuffin is a plot device that appears to be the central focus of a film, but eventually it loses importance. It may re-appear at the climax of the story, but is ...
  • Night Will Fall review – unflinching footage reveals true hell of the Holocaust - The Guardian (18/Sep/2014)
    He employed Alfred Hitchcock as a supervising director. Yet the film, austerely entitled German Concentration Camps Factual Survey, was never completed: Bernstein was stonewalled by political authorities nervous of the growing Zionist movement and in ...
  • Fringe Festival presents "Vintage Hitchcock" - WROC-TV (19/Sep/2014)
    Written by Joe Landry, the play is based upon two early films by acclaimed director Alfred Hitchcock, The Lodger and Sabotage. The production will be staged as a broadcast from Rochester's local radio station using vintage equipment from the AWA Wireless ...
  • COLUMN: Directing our city's future - Brampton Guardian (19/Sep/2014)
    British film director Michael Winner once said, “a team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.” Despotism is a very good thing in the world of moviemaking, and some of the best – Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, Oliver Stone, and ...
  • 'Psycho' and 'Psycho II' at East Stroudsburg theater - Pocono Record (19/Sep/2014)
    Pocono Community Theater will screen Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" at 2 p.m. Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday at the theater, 88 S. Courtland St., East Stroudsburg. In the 1960 classic thriller, Marion Crane's employer asks her to take $40,000 in cash to a local ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock's Nazi death camp seen to finally be seen after 70 years - Mirror.co.uk (19/Sep/2014)
    Directed by the future Granada TV chief Sidney Bernstein, with Alfred Hitchcock on board as an adviser and Labour politician – and psychological warfare expert – Richard Crossman writing the script, it was to be entitled German Concentration Camps Factual ...
  • 'Off the Cuff' Podcast: Tippi Hedren Battles Drug Dealers On Way to D.C. - Hollywood Reporter (19/Sep/2014)
    On one hand, this should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, in which Hedren made her screen debut as Melanie, a woman who follows a love interest up to Northern California where the town is suddenly besieged by ...
  • Buried for 70 years: Harrowing Nazi death camp film Alfred Hitchcock helped to ... - Scottish Daily Record (20/Sep/2014)
    Directed by the future Granada TV chief Sidney Bernstein, with Alfred Hitchcock on board as an adviser and Labour politician and psychological warfare expert Richard Crossman writing the script, it was to be entitled German Concentration Camps Factual ...
  • After the referendum, local media needs its own devo max - The Guardian (20/Sep/2014)
    Alfred Hitchcock and Bamber Gascoigne at Granada Television in Manchester during its heyday in the 1960s. Photograph: ITV/Rex. So, time to change channels. We more or less know what the media world in an independent Scotland would have looked ...
  • COLUMN: Directing our city's future - Mississauga (21/Sep/2014)
    British film director Michael Winner once said, “a team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.” Despotism is a very good thing in the world of moviemaking, and some of the best – Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, Oliver Stone, and ...
  • Feathers are being ruffled by Swan Theatre Company - Bedfordshire News (21/Sep/2014)
    NOT long before Dr. Who first hit our TV screens, another public 'phone box quickly became a famous image. In Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 movie, The Birds, Tippi Hedren takes refuge in a call box from rampaging flocks of our feathered 'friends'. Like Hitchcock's ...
  • Toby Jones: totally Stoked - The Guardian (21/Sep/2014)
    Sure, Jones has excelled as real-life characters, great men like Alfred Hitchcock and Truman Capote, not-so-great men like Karl Rove and Swifty Lazar, and he's soon to play Captain Mainwaring in a Dad's Army film. But never before had he been quite so ...
  • Adam reviews "Vintage Hitchcock," "Solo Drum Solo," and "God of Carnage" - Rochester City Newspaper (22/Sep/2014)
    The show presented two early works from Alfred Hitchcock: "The Lodger" and "Sabotage," both twisted stories of suspense that, in typical Hitchcock fashion, provided plenty of proof that the worst suspicions we have about our fellow man are probably correct.
  • E a QuiMediaset racconta di quella volta in cui Hitchcock... - TGCOM (22/Sep/2014)
    «"Gli uccelli" e "Nodo alla gola" sono due film curiosi da accoppiare: sono uno l'opposto dell'altro. Il primo è il film di Hitchcock con più inquadrature, il più spezzettato nel montaggio. Il secondo, invece, finge il tempo reale: si svolge per il tempo di una cena e i ...
  • Watch: Steven Soderbergh Re-Scores And Changes Steven Spielberg's ... - Indie Wire (blog) (22/Sep/2014)
    While he isn't making feature films at the moment, that doesn't mean Steven Soderbergh doesn't like to play with them. We've seen him mashup Alfred Hitchcock and Gus Van Sant's "Psycho," and now he's toying with a massive cultural touchstone of the ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock to help launch Retro Cinema series at local theaters - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com (22/Sep/2014)
    First up: a five-week series featuring the work of director Alfred Hitchcock. Below, find a full schedule for the Hitchcock schedule. Tickets are available at the websites and box offices of participating theaters. Sept. 30 and Oct 1: "The Birds" (1963), starring Tippi ...
  • John Malkovich Becomes Marilyn, Hitchcock, Einstein in Stunning Photo Re ... - Hollywood Reporter (23/Sep/2014)
    The works are truly stunning, with one featuring Malkovich re-creating Albert Watson's iconic "Alfred Hitchcock With Goose" from 1973 (seen above). Malkovich also mimics Arthur Sasse's "Albert Einstein Sticking Out His Tongue" (1951) and Bert Stern's ...
  • John Malkovich becomes John Lennon, Alfred Hitchcock, Salvador Dali... and ... - TheCelebrityCafe.com (23/Sep/2014)
    One image finds Malkovich as the Master of Suspense, recreating Albert Watson's famous photo, Alfred Hitchcock with Goose. In another, he is John Lennon in Leibovitz' famous nude picture of Lennon with Yoko Ono. In others, he is Che Guevara, Andy ...
  • John Malkovich Transforms Into Cultural Icons - WSYR (23/Sep/2014)
    John Malkovich has made extraordinary transformations into iconic stars including Alfred Hitchcock and Marilyn Monroe for a new photography exhibition. The "Dangerous Liasons" star has recreated iconic photos for a series called Malkovich, Malkovich, ...
  • John Malkovich recreates iconic portrait photos - UPI.com (23/Sep/2014)
    The 60-year-old actor posed as Alfred Hitchcock, Salvador Dali, John Lennon and more for photographer Sandro Miller's "Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters" exhibit at the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago. Malkovich ...
  • John Malkovich recreates iconic photos - Toronto Sun (23/Sep/2014)
    John Malkovich has made extraordinary transformations into iconic stars including Alfred Hitchcock and Marilyn Monroe for a new photography exhibition. The Dangerous Liasons star has recreated iconic photos for a series called Malkovich, Malkovich, ...
  • Malkovich recreates iconic photos - London Free Press (23/Sep/2014)
    John Malkovich has made extraordinary transformations into iconic stars including Alfred Hitchcock and Marilyn Monroe for a new photography exhibition. The Dangerous Liasons star has recreated iconic photos for a series called Malkovich, Malkovich, ...
  • John Malkovich stars in recreations of famous portraits - Reality TV World (23/Sep/2014)
    The 60-year-old actor posed as Alfred Hitchcock, Salvador Dali, John Lennon and more for photographer Sandro Miller's "Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters" exhibit at the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago. Malkovich ...
  • John Malkovich recreates iconic photos - CANOE (23/Sep/2014)
    John Malkovich has made extraordinary transformations into iconic stars including Alfred Hitchcock and Marilyn Monroe for a new photography exhibition. The Dangerous Liasons star has recreated iconic photos for a series called Malkovich, Malkovich, ...
  • John Malkovich recreates iconic portrait photos - Big News Network.com (23/Sep/2014)
    The 60-year-old actor posed as Alfred Hitchcock, Salvador Dali, John Lennon and more for photographer Sandro Miller's "Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters" exhibit at the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago. Malkovich ...
  • John Malkovich transforms into cultural icons - Express.co.uk (23/Sep/2014)
    The veteran actor poses topless in a blonde wig to mimic Monroe's iconic 'Marilyn in Pink Roses' shoot by photographer Bert Stern, while he pulls a deadpan face as he holds a dead goose to portray legendary director Hitchcock. Other stars mimicked by ...
  • These Photos of John Malkovich Will Make You Do a Double Take - WhoSay (23/Sep/2014)
    But in photographer Sandro Miller's new project, "Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich," the actor has been tranformed into a myriad of other very famous figures from very famous photographs, including Alfred Hitchcock, Albert Einstein, and yes, even Marylin ...
  • 5 John Malkovich Transformations That'll Make You Do a Double Take - WhoSay (23/Sep/2014)
    But in photographer Sandro Miller's new project, "Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich," the actor has been tranformed into a myriad of other very famous figures from very famous photographs, including Alfred Hitchcock, Albert Einstein, and yes, even Marylin ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock's 'Bang! You're Dead' Reveals Life in Human 'Vegetables' - PJ Media (23/Sep/2014)
    Not only because it's a primer in the use of story-boarding and editing to induce tension in viewers, but because, as an Englishman, Hitchcock no doubt looked down on America's gun culture as crude, juvenile and deeply dangerous. Another educated guess:.
  • John Malkovich Channels Alfred Hitchcock — and Marilyn Monroe? — in a New ... - Yahoo News (23/Sep/2014)
    You've seen Being John Malkovich, but have you ever seen John Malkovich being Marilyn Monroe? How about John Malkovich being John Lennon…or Alfred Hitchcock…or Mick Jagger? Malkovich assumes all of these roles in the fascinating photo series ...
  • John Malkovic is The Joker? Well, And Everybody Else. - Comicbook.com (23/Sep/2014)
    Malkovich also inhabits Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe (twice!), Salvador Dali and more in the Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich series from photographer Sandro Miller. You can see a full rundown at the Catherine Edelman Gallery's website, but the gist is ...
  • John Malkovich plays multiple roles in photo gallery - TheCelebrityCafe.com (23/Sep/2014)
    John Malkovich will play Alfred Hitchcock, Che Guevara, and even Maralyn Monroe, but his performances won't be coming to any movie theaters. Sandro Miller will showcase the actor in those roles and others in his project entitled Malkovich, Malkovich, ...
  • John Malkovich Channels Popular Figures in Iconic Photos - AceShowbiz (24/Sep/2014)
    In the 35 images, Malkovich re-enacts poses by Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon and Alfred Hitchcock among others for an exhibition called "Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters" which will take place at the Catherine Edelman ...
  • John Malkovich channels famous figures in iconic photos - PanARMENIAN.Net (24/Sep/2014)
    In the 35 images, Malkovich re-enacts poses by Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon and Alfred Hitchcock among others for an exhibition called "Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters" which will take place at the Catherine Edelman ...
  • John Malkovich morphs into iconic blonde sex symbol for bizarre new photo series - Daily Mail (24/Sep/2014)
    The versatile actor posed as Alfred Hitchcock in another black and white photo, in which he's wearing a dark suit and bow-tie and holding a skinned and quite dead goose. John even had age spots on his Hitchcock-esque bald head and heavy jowls just like ...
  • John Malkovich recreates iconic photographs from Marilyn Monroe to Andy Warhol - Irish Mirror (24/Sep/2014)
    Most people have seen Being John Malkovich but they haven't seen John Malkovich being Alfred Hitchcock, Mick Jagger and Albert Einstein. Sandro has worked on several projects with the 60-year-old star since meeting him at the Steppenwolf Theater in the ...
  • John Malkovich recreates iconic photographs from Marilyn Monroe to Andy Warhol - Mirror.co.uk (24/Sep/2014)
    Most people have seen Being John Malkovich but they haven't seen John Malkovich being Alfred Hitchcock, Mick Jagger and Albert Einstein. Sandro has worked on several projects with the 60-year-old star since meeting him at the Steppenwolf Theater in the ...
  • Why John Malkovich Became the Face of History - Wall Street Journal (blog) (24/Sep/2014)
    Nearly all are defining figures of American history: there's Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe and Gordon Parks' “American Gothic,” as well as portraits of Alfred Hitchcock, Bette Davis, the “Migrant Mother” of the Dust Bowl, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono.,.
  • John Malkovich transforms into cultural icons - SFGate (blog) (24/Sep/2014)
    John Malkovich has made extraordinary transformations into iconic stars including Alfred Hitchcock and Marilyn Monroe for a new photography exhibition. The “Dangerous Liasons” star has recreated iconic photos for a series called Malkovich, Malkovich, ...
  • Hitchcock Film Prompts Response in Brain of Coma Victim - AllMediaNY (25/Sep/2014)
    A study led by scientist Adrian Owen placed 13 participants in fMRI machines and had them watch a condensed 1961 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. A dozen of the participants were healthy individuals. The 13th was a man who had been in a coma for ...
  • 10 Movie Directors Who Dated Their Stars - WhatCulture! (25/Sep/2014)
    Alfred Hitchcock had a thing for blondes. Not only did he cast Hollywood starlets like Tippi Hedren and Janet Leigh in his film, but he often had other, less-professional designs on them. As recounted in the Toby Jones-starring The Girl, Hitch often got as ...
  • Classic Hitchcock film to play at Soper Reese - Record Bee (25/Sep/2014)
    LAKEPORT >> Alfred Hitchcock's Oscar-winning suspense thriller, "The Man Who Knew Too Much," screens at the Soper Reese Community Theatre on Oct. 14 with show times at 1 and 6 p.m.. The 1956 classic film stars James Stewart and Doris Day, with ...
  • Hitchcock, Chan mysteries in Capitol - Rome Sentinel (25/Sep/2014)
    The first movie will be 1938's “The Lady Vanishes,” directed by the “Master of Suspense,” Alfred Hitchcock. The movie concerns a young lady (Margaret Lockwood) who befriends an older woman (Dame May Whitty) while on a cross-country train trip. When the ...
  • Performance and classical music listings - Philly.com (26/Sep/2014)
    39 Steps A fast-paced whodunit based on the Alfred Hitchcock film. Closes 10/26. Bristol Riverside Theatre, 120 Radcliffe St., Bristol; 215-785-0100. $31-$46; $10 students. 9 to 5: The Musical Based on the hit movie & featuring music from Dolly Parton.
  • Hitchcock classic at MK Gallery - Milton Keynes MKWeb (26/Sep/2014)
    Alfred Hitchcock's classic North by Northwest is this week's Friday Night Film offering at MK Gallery. An advertising executive, played by Cary Grant, is framed for murder and pursued across the United States by a mysterious group of spies in this iconic movie.
  • 'The Two Faces of January' review: The talented Ms. Highsmith - The Star-Ledger (26/Sep/2014)
    Alfred Hitchcock only made one of Patricia Highsmith's novels, "Strangers on a Train," and it's a great shame. Highsmith didn't write the kind of clockwork plots he liked, true. But the rest of it — the sympathetic villains, the guilty heroines, the constant Catholic ...
  • Top 10 films showing - Sydney Morning Herald (26/Sep/2014)
    Alfred Hitchcock's masterful 1958 romantic thriller is a seductive yet clear-eyed study of the compulsions that rule lovers and moviegoers alike. The tricky plot lures us into identifying with an obsessive voyeur in the guise of a retired detective (James Stewart) ...
  • Eye museum to show Hitchcock's concentration camp documentary - DutchNews.nl (26/Sep/2014)
    A documentary worked on by Alfred Hitchcock and composed almost entirely of footage shot by allied army cameramen in 1945 will be shown at the Eye film museum on Sunday evening. The documentary, German Concentration Camps Factual Survey, was ...
  • Watch: Look into the 'Eyes of Hitchcock' - RopeofSilicon.com (registration) (blog) (26/Sep/2014)
    Taking snippets from several Alfred Hitchcock films, kogonada has created a haunting look at the wide-eyed characters from Hitchcock's features, set them toRob Cawley's "Anything can happen, and usually does... On the Orient Express" and delivered a cool ...
  • Watch: Trailer For Jacques Tati's Restored Masterpiece 'Playtime,' Shot On 70mm - Indie Wire (blog) (26/Sep/2014)
    Directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick are notorious for the meticulous manner in which they constructed their films, shooting and reshooting to an incredible extent in order to get exactly what they wanted. But as demanding and thorough as they ...
  • The Dallas Chamber Symphony Presents Alfred Hitchcock's THE LODGER, 10/8 - Broadway World (26/Sep/2014)
    This concert gives you a front row seat to opening night of VideoFest27 as we screen the Dallas premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller, The Lodger, digitally re-mastered. This newly released masterpiece is visually pristine, and you'll experience it in the ...
  • Interview: Thomas Heatherwick on Inventing, Madness, and Alfred Hitchcock - D Magazine (26/Sep/2014)
    The Thomas Heatherwick exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center is the first show at the museum dedicated to the work of an architect. Heatherwick, the man behind the London Olympic torch and the spiny “Seed Cathedral” at the Shanghai World Expo ...
  • Movie Review: THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY - Assignment X (26/Sep/2014)
    If Alfred Hitchcock were in a low-key mood – no crop-dusters or briefcase bombs – he might have made something like THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY, the directing debut of Hossein Amini, who adapted the screenplay from Patricia Highsmith's novel. In fact ...
  • Hitchcock Thriller THE BIRDS Flies to Cincinnati Shakespeare This Halloween - Broadway World (27/Sep/2014)
    The story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's classic film "The Birds" released in 1963. In 2009, Irish playwright Conor McPherson adapted the story for the stage setting it in an isolated seaside cabin somewhere in the near future. The production has ...
  • Art exhibition: Malkovich becomes Hitchcock, Monroe, Dali - Luxemburger Wort - English Edition (27/Sep/2014)
    As such, its images feature Malkovich impersonating Alfred Hitchcock, Marylin Monroe (twice), Albert Einstein, Simone de Beauvoir, Salvador Dali, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Bette Davis and Truman Capote, among others.
  • Art pick of the week: Malkovich becomes Hitchcock, Monroe, Dali for photo exhibit - Yahoo Philippines News (27/Sep/2014)
    As such, its images feature Malkovich impersonating Alfred Hitchcock, Marylin Monroe (twice), Albert Einstein, Simone de Beauvoir, Salvador Dali, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Bette Davis and Truman Capote, among others.
  • North by Northwest - Timesonline.com (27/Sep/2014)
    Turner Classic Movies TCM has Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 spy thriller, North by Northwest, about mistaken identity in which an innocent man is pursued across the United States by foreign agents, at 2:30 PT/5:30 ET. Click here to watch a video ...
  • THE 39 STEPS Opens Long Beach Playhouse's 86th Mainstage Season Tonight - Broadway World (27/Sep/2014)
    The 39 Steps, a suspenseful-romantic-comedy, based on the 1935 movie by Alfred Hitchcock, opens the Mainstage Season tonight, Sept. 27. Four actors play over 100 characters in this Tony-winner that kept Broadway rollicking for the past three years.
  • Spoiler Alert! 'Gone Girl' and 11 Other Movies With Big Twists - Hollywood Reporter (27/Sep/2014)
    In what has become Alfred Hitchcock's most well-known film, Norman Bates, played by Anthony Perkins, covers up a murder that takes place at his motel in the now infamous “shower scene.” The assailant's identity seems to be in some way linked to Bates' ...
  • Hitchcock's Obsession With Eyes Gets a Great Supercut - Slate Magazine (blog) (27/Sep/2014)
    ... exploration of directors' stylistic tics—Wes Anderson's symmetrical shots, Darren Aronofsky's use of sound, Kubrick's one-point perspective. His latest, for the Criterion Collection, is a short but stunning exploration of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession with eyes.
  • John Malkovich becomes Hitchcock, Monroe, Dali for photo exhibit - CTV News (27/Sep/2014)
    As such, its images feature Malkovich impersonating Alfred Hitchcock, Marylin Monroe (twice), Albert Einstein, Simone de Beauvoir, Salvador Dali, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Bette Davis and Truman Capote, among others.
  • Que Sera; a movie for a noval audience - The Sunday Times Sri Lanka (27/Sep/2014)
    The tittle of the evergreen song written by the Jay Livingston and Ray Evans “Que Sera, Sera” or Whatever Will Be, Will Be, featured in the Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film 'The Man Who Knew Too Much', had made a bridge between Hollywood and Sri Lankan ...
  • Bavarian-style “castle” asks just $850000 - The Real Deal Magazine (blog) (28/Sep/2014)
    Yet another American “castle” has hit the market, but this time with a Hollywood twist. The Missouri fortress is modeled on Manderley, the Bavarian-style English country estate in Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of “Rebecca.” German-born owner, Guenter ...
  • 10 Best Thrillers Hitchcock Never Made - IGN (28/Sep/2014)
    If Hitch were still around today, we reckon he'd get a kick out of these 10 modern high concept thrillers – each one a twisty, turny homage to the movies of the great man himself. Boasting ludicrous concepts, audacious single locations and femme fatales to die ...
  • Dallas Chamber Symphony Presents Alfred Hitchcock's THE LODGER Tonight - Broadway World (28/Sep/2014)
    This concert gives you a front row seat to opening night of VideoFest27 as we screen the Dallas premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller, The Lodger, digitally re-mastered. This newly released masterpiece is visually pristine, and you'll experience it in the ...
  • MURRIETA: Cal Oaks to screen Hitchcock classics - Press-Enterprise (29/Sep/2014)
    The Cal Oaks 17 theater in Murrieta is celebrating legendary director Alfred Hitchcock with a month-long series called “Hitchcock-tober.” The films screening during the month of October include “Rope” (Sunday, Oct. 5), “Psycho” (Sunday, Oct. 12), “The Man ...
  • Watch: Alfred Hitchcock And Tippi Hedren Talk 'The Birds' In Vintage Interviews - Indie Wire (blog) (29/Sep/2014)
    Released after of a string of timeless masterpieces — “Vertigo”, “North by Northwest” and “Psycho” — Alfred Hitchcock's Bay Area Romance/Fowl Terror mash-up “The Birds” might not be as pitch-perfect as those three titles. However, the seamless ...
  • BWW Reviews: A.D. Players Presents THE 39 STEPS - It's a Tippi Good Time - Broadway World (29/Sep/2014)
    Patrick Barlow's THE 39 STEPS is modeled after Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, which is modeled after John Buchan's "The 39 Steps." Alfred Hitchcock chose to adapt " The 39 Steps" because of his strong admiration for John Buchan and his ability to ...
  • Review: Long Beach Playhouse aptly opens season with 'The 39 Steps' - Long Beach Press Telegram (30/Sep/2014)
    “The 39 Steps” is a classic Alfred Hitchcock film, his first big hit in America, and its cinematic action stretches from London to Edinburgh, Scotland, and back again as it pits its stiff-upper-lip British hero against the machinations of a Nazi spy ring. “The 39 Steps” ...
  • Elstree Studios mark 100 years of Borehamwood movies with Alfred Hitchcock ... - ATV Today (30/Sep/2014)
    Elstree Studios, once tagged the home of British Hollywood, is celebrating the 100 year anniversary of film making in Elstree and has given a special sculpture of filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense, to the British Film Institute. To commemorate ...
  • The Two Faces of January - Paste Magazine (30/Sep/2014)
    Whether it's Alberto Iglesias's score, meant to evoke the icy paranoia of Bernard Herrmann's music for Alfred Hitchcock, or the period setting, the feature directorial debut of Oscar-nominated screenwriter Hossein Amini revels in its old-fashioned tone. The Two ...
  • Elstree Studios presents Alfred Hitchcock bust to BFI - Screen International (blog) (30/Sep/2014)
    Elstree Studios, currently marking 100 years of filmmaking at the studios just outside of London, has presented a bust of famed filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock to the British Film Institute. Last week, the BFI held a special screening of Hitchcock's first ever 'talkie' ...
  • The Alden in McLean to Screen Hitchcock's BLACKMAIL, 10/22 - Broadway World (30/Sep/2014)
    The Alden in McLean will launch its 2014-2015 Classics of the Silent Screen series with a little-known silent film by "Master of Suspense" Alfred Hitchcock. "Blackmail" will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 22. Tickets are $12, $8 for Dranesville Small ...
  • Watch: The Criterion Collection Supercut 'Eyes Of Hitchcock' - Indie Wire (blog) (30/Sep/2014)
    The Criterion Collection loves it some Alfred Hitchcock. And why wouldn't they? The legendary director entertained, thrilled and terrified movie and TV viewers for years, and the company currently has editions of "The 39 Steps," "Foreign Correspondent," "The ...
  • Shout! Factory Acquires Westchester Films (Exclusive) - Hollywood Reporter (30/Sep/2014)
    Shout! Factory has acquired Westchester Films, a distribution company with rights to such classics as Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent, John Ford's Stagecoach and Merchant Ivory's A Room With a View. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
  • Explore Hitchcock's obsession with eyes in this supercut - A.V. Club (30/Sep/2014)
    Alfred Hitchcock is most often remembered for his use of suspense, his cameos, and his icy blonde female leads, but a new video offers up another Hitchcockian trope: eyes. Visual essayist Kogonada—who often highlights directors' stylistic ...
  • The Crazy Eyes Of Alfred Hitchcock [Supercut] - Co.Design (30/Sep/2014)
    They say that eyes are the windows to the soul. And in Alfred Hitchcock's case, his characters were some very demented and perverse souls. Take a look in Eyes of Hitchcock, by Vimeo's kogonada. It's a supercut of eyes filmed by the infamous director. As any ...