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February 2013

  • Competition: Win a 'Hitchcock' merch bundle - Cine-Vue (01/Feb/2013)
    Each pack includes a t-shirt, pen, CD soundtrack, cup and saucer, and a copy of Alfred Hitchcock and The Making of Psycho, the book on which Gervasi's film is based. Hitchcock is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, ...
  • In the footsteps of Hitchcock - The Australian (01/Feb/2013)
    FREE TO AIR. ALFRED Hitchcock had countless admirers and imitators in France, including such filmmakers as Claude Chabrol, another master of the psychological thriller. Denis Dercourt's The Page Turner (Tuesday, 1pm, SBS One) is a brilliant film in the ...
  • Hitchcock starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren - review - Radio Times (01/Feb/2013)
    Released shortly after the TV drama The Girl, in which canonised director Alfred Hitchcock is portrayed as little more than a sadistic lech, this more agreeably comic portrayal acts as a salve, if little else. Under a mound of make-up, Anthony Hopkins gleefully ...
  • Win Great HITCHCOCK Goodies! - Film News (01/Feb/2013)
    To celebrate the February 8 release of HITCHCOCK, we've got three merchandise packs to give away! Each pack includes a t-shirt, pen, CD soundtrack, cup and saucer, and a copy of Alfred Hitchcock and The Making of Psycho on which the film is based.
  • The Things They Say: 3477963 - Contactmusic.com (01/Feb/2013)
    ... the hell are you doing here? You're in this movie? Really?' Tony became a stranger to me and I really only knew him as Hitch." Dame Helen Mirren was impressed with Sir Anthony Hopkins' transformation into Alfred Hitchcock for their new movie Hitchcock.
  • The things they say - Hollywood.com (01/Feb/2013)
    You're in this movie? Really?' Tony became a stranger to me and I really only knew him as Hitch." Dame Helen Mirren was impressed with Sir Anthony Hopkins' transformation into Alfred Hitchcock for their new movie Hitchcock. View the discussion thread.
  • Bates Motel Teaser Shows Us A Boy And His Mother - Cinema Blend (01/Feb/2013)
    Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Bates Motel will serve as a "contemporary preque" to the story. It follows Norman Bates and his mother when Norman was a teenager. The drama, which is executive produced by Carlton Cuse and Kerry Ehrin, will serve ...
  • Movie review: Hitchcock - New Zealand Herald (01/Feb/2013)
    Inspired by Stephen Rebello's book - Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho - this begins at the premiere of his successful film North By Northwest in 1959. Unnerved when a reporter suggests that, at 60, he should quit while he's ahead, a restless ...
  • KU museum's programs focus on botany, genetics, Hitchcock - Topeka Capital Journal (01/Feb/2013)
    Botany collections, genetics, Alfred Hitchcock and the science of "small" are among the subjects to be explored this month at events planned by the KU Natural History Museum in Lawrence, according to a news release. The events begin at 3 p.m. Sunday with ...
  • New DVDs: 'The Man Who Knew Too Much,' Carole Lombard Films - New York Times (01/Feb/2013)
    ALFRED HITCHCOCK DIRECTED over 50 feature films but chose to remake only one: the 1934 British production “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” which he reshot in Hollywood in 1956. The '34 version has recently been released by the Criterion Collection ...
  • Film Review: 'Hitchcock' - Cine-Vue (03/Feb/2013)
    With Alfred Hitchcock arguably the toast of 2012, celebrated with a year-long season at the BFI and his classic 1958 film Vertigo topping the Sight & Sound 'Greatest Films of All Time' poll, Sacha Gervasi attempts to prolong the celebration of the 'Master of ...
  • Q&A with 'Hitchcock' star, British actor James D'Arcy - Philippine Star (03/Feb/2013)
    In Fox Searchlight's shocking biopic “Hitchcock,” he sounds uncannily like him too. Director Sacha Gervasi always suspected casting Anthony Perkins, the famously rangy, boyish actor who became indelibly associated with Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's ...
  • The many faces of Alfred Hitchcock - The Guardian (03/Feb/2013)
    Seems like it's always a one-two punch with Alfred Hitchcock. It's only been a couple of months since the release of The Girl, based on Donald Spoto's 1983 biography and centring on its saddest, grimiest revelations – namely, Hitchcock's harassment of Tippi ...
  • Sacha Gervasi: I wanted to confound the stereotypes of Hitchcock - Metro (03/Feb/2013)
    Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese expressed interest in Hitchcock. How did you get the job? I loved Hitchcock films so I read Stephen Rebello's book, Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho. I studied Hitchcock at university in Los Angeles. But it was ...
  • Best Of Hitchcock: Rebecca - FemaleFirst.co.uk (04/Feb/2013)
    Hitchcock hits the big screen this week and follows the relationship of Alfred Hitchcock and wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho. To celebrate the release of the movie we are taking a look at some of the best work by Hitchcock as he remains one of ...
  • Film review: Hitchcock - The Upcoming (04/Feb/2013)
    In the opening scene where Alfred Hitchcock breaks the third wall and addresses the audience, Hitchcock sets up foundations to be something of contemporary interest, and an insight into the master of suspense. Unfortunately, these moments in the film are ...
  • HITCHCOCK Review - Filmoria (blog) (04/Feb/2013)
    Hitchcock is the long awaited big screen adaptation of author Stephen Rebello' s revealing work, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. Directed by Sacha Gervasi (Anvil! The Story of Anvil), it's essentially a love story about the relationship between ...
  • Movie Review - Hitchcock (2012) - Flickering Myth (blog) (04/Feb/2013)
    Hitchcock is based on Stephen Rebello's book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, but if you are looking forward to watching this film simply because you want a behind the scenes insight into how the classic 1960s horror film was made, you are in for ...
  • Hopkins plays Hitchcock - euronews (04/Feb/2013)
    Anthony Hopkins plays film legend Alfred Hitchcock in the Sacha Gervasi-helmed movie Hitchcock, which explores the period in the director's life when he was trying to get Psycho made. Anthony Hopkins said: “It's about his wife and his relationship, his ...
  • REVIEW: Hitchcock (12A) - Basingstoke Gazette (04/Feb/2013)
    The latter Welsh knight of the realm has been transformed into the legendary English director – who never won an Oscar - with the aid of outstanding prosthetics for Sacha Gervasi's film based on Stephen Rebello's Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho.
  • At The Movies - PS News (04/Feb/2013)
    Even though it is promoted as a kind of bio-pic on the universally acclaimed Master of Suspense, it is actually a fascinating insight into the personal relationship between Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins – Thor) and his loving wife Alma Reville (Helen ...
  • In the shadow of Alfred Hitchcock - BBC News (04/Feb/2013)
    Reville was the wife of Alfred Hitchcock - she was was married to the acclaimed film director for over 50 years, until his death in April 1980. And it is the story of their relationship, and Reville's role in bringing classic thriller Psycho to the big screen, that is ...
  • Hitchcock - TV Spot - Trailer - Total Film (04/Feb/2013)
    Hitchcock is a love story about one of the most influential film makers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock, and his wife and partner Alma Reville. The film takes place during the making of Hitchcock's seminal movie Psycho. Directed by Sacha Gervasi (Anvil: ...
  • Dame Helen Mirren - Helen Mirren Eyeing Bafta Success To Promote Hitchcock - Contactmusic.com (05/Feb/2013)
    The Queen star is tipped in the Leading Actress category for her portrayal of Alfred Hitchcock's wife Alma Reville in the project, which features Sir Anthony Hopkins as the legendary director. And Mirren is praying her name is called out at the London ceremony ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock: Directing Genius - FemaleFirst.co.uk (05/Feb/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock remains one of the greatest directors of all time delivering movies that will live forever. This week sees Hitchcock hit the big screen; a movie that looks at the relationship between the director and his wife Alama Reville during the making of ...
  • Anthony Hopkins is masterful as Alfred Hitchcock - Mirror.co.uk (05/Feb/2013)
    Master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock would have enjoyed being brought back to life in this darkly witty tale of lust, jealously and betrayal. Based around the troubled production of his classic horror film Psycho, Hitchcock stars Anthony Hopkins as the filmmaker ...
  • Helen Mirren eyeing BAFTA success to promote Hitchcock - OK! Magazine (05/Feb/2013)
    The Queen star is tipped in the Leading Actress category for her portrayal of Alfred Hitchcock's wife Alma Reville in the project, which features Sir Anthony Hopkins as the legendary director. And Mirren is praying her name is called out at the London ceremony ...
  • HELEN MIRREN EYEING BAFTA SUCCESS TO PROMOTE HITCHCOCK - Daily Star (05/Feb/2013)
    The Queen star is tipped in the Leading Actress category for her portrayal of Alfred Hitchcock's wife Alma Reville in the project, which features Sir Anthony Hopkins as the legendary director. And Mirren is praying her name is called out at the London ceremony ...
  • Hitchcock (12A, 98 mins) - Hertfordshire Mercury (05/Feb/2013)
    In a career spanning more than 50 years, London-born film-maker Alfred Hitchcock redefined the cinematic landscape with his diabolical and twisted thrillers. Audiences screamed and cowered on cue, and Hollywood courted his enviable talents behind the ...
  • Helen Mirren wants BAFTA success to promote Hitchcock - Orange UK News (05/Feb/2013)
    The Queen star is tipped in the Leading Actress category for her portrayal of Alfred Hitchcock's wife Alma Reville in the project, which features Sir Anthony Hopkins as the legendary director. And Mirren is praying her name is called out at the London ceremony ...
  • Best Of Hitchcock: The 39 Steps - FemaleFirst.co.uk (05/Feb/2013)
    Our look at some of Alfred Hitchcock's best films continues today as The 39 Steps is in the spotlight. It was back in 1935 when the film hit the big screen and it is widely regarded as one of Hitchcock's finest pieces of work. The film is loosely based on the novel ...
  • Bafta special: the 49 best British films of all time - Telegraph.co.uk (05/Feb/2013)
    His list spans over 75 years of British cinema, from Alfred's Hitchcock's The 39 Steps in 1935, through to Sam Mendes' Skyfall released in 2012. Radio Times are asking their readers to nominate the 50th entry to complete Barry's list. Barry Lyndon (1975).
  • See master at work - Delano.lu (05/Feb/2013)
    A veritable giant of 20th century cinema, Alfred Hitchcock could arguably be called the best film director of all time. See master at work. Indeed, Vertigo, his best film, was recently voted the greatest film of all time--knocking perennial number one, Citizen Kane, ...
  • Helen Mirren eyeing BAFTA success to promote Hitchcock - Hollywood.com (05/Feb/2013)
    The Queen star is tipped in the Leading Actress category for her portrayal of Alfred Hitchcock's wife Alma Reville in the project, which features Sir Anthony Hopkins as the legendary director. And Mirren is praying her name is called out at the London ceremony ...
  • WIN tickets to see Hitchcock at Crawley Cineworld - Mid Sussex Times (05/Feb/2013)
    The famous film director Alfred Hitchcock is returning to the big screen - as performed by award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins. The movie Hitchcock features a host of Hollywood A-listers in a story about the making of the classic psychological thriller Psycho.
  • Skyfall Included In Barry Norman's Top 49 British Movies Of All Time - Contactmusic.com (05/Feb/2013)
    The list, which does not rank films in order, includes works from 75 years of British cinema, ranging from Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps to Sam Mendes' recent Bond movie Skyfall. Norman harks back to yesteryear for most of his selections, with Gladiator, ...
  • Highlans students to present "Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play” - Idaho State Journal (05/Feb/2013)
    Spies, murder, love, and all things we've come to know and enjoy about Alfred Hitchcock. In the style of his earlier films, this triple feature includes "The Lodger," "Sabotage," and "The 39 Steps," as well as vintage 40's radio commercials, train chase scenes, ...
  • Tech Support: Makeup artist Howard Berger on fleshing out 'Hitchcock' - HitFix (blog) (05/Feb/2013)
    While many people assumed transforming Daniel Day-Lewis into Abraham Lincoln would yield a nod for “Lincoln,” it was turning Anthony Hopkins into Alfred Hitchcock that tickled the branch's fancy as Sacha Gervasi's film managed to score its sole ...
  • Mirren's marriage helped with Hitchcock movie - RTE.ie (05/Feb/2013)
    Mirren's marriage helped with Hitchcock movie. Tuesday 5 February 2013. Tweet. Helen Mirren says her own marriage to film producer Taylor Hackford helped her prepare for her latest role as Alfred Hitchcock's wife in Hitchcock. 1 of 1 ...
  • Natalie Haynes: Hitchcock changed the way we watch films, yet... - Gulf Today (05/Feb/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock must be the best-known, yet unknown, director of the 20th century. A household name who directed more than 50 films, he was in front of the camera as often as he was behind it: making cameo appearances, starring in Alfred Hitchcock ...
  • Hitchcock trailer - 3News NZ (05/Feb/2013)
    Directed by Sacha Gervasi (Anvil), the film stars Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock, Helen Mirren as Alma Reville, Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh, Jessica Biel as Vera Miles and James D'Arcy as Anthony Perkins. Hitchcock is released in New Zealand ...
  • My Strange Homage to Hitchcock - Huffington Post (blog) (05/Feb/2013)
    As a way of paying homage to the great Alfred Hitchcock and in true Rear Window fashion, minus the intrusive camera lens peering into homes, I've had the opportunity to observe a great deal. Again, I don't look into people's homes (sorry to disappoint Jimmy ...
  • Movie Review: Hitchcock - Lennox Herald (05/Feb/2013)
    In 1960 legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock scared audiences silly with Psycho, one of my favourite movies of all time. Hitchcock is the story of the making of that seminal piece of cinema, starring Anthony Hopkins as the great man and Helen Mirren as his ...
  • Movie Review: Hitchcock - Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser (05/Feb/2013)
    In 1960 legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock scared audiences silly with Psycho, one of my favourite movies of all time. Hitchcock is the story of the making of that seminal piece of cinema, starring Anthony Hopkins as the great man and Helen Mirren as his ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock biopic: Dial M for mischief - Telegraph.co.uk (05/Feb/2013)
    Someone said, I think quite brilliantly, that if Alfred Hitchcock had just had sex a lot more often we wouldn't have any of these beautiful movies. Clearly, it's his therapy! Alfred Hitchcock looks in the mirror, he knows he doesn't look like Cary Grant. Would these ...
  • Best Of Hitchcock - Psycho - FemaleFirst.co.uk (06/Feb/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock changed the face of horror films in 1960 with Psycho and that is the film that is under the spotlight today. With Psycho the director turned all of the traditional trademarks of this genre on its head as he re-wrote the rule book. Hitchcock showed ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock: Dial M for mischief - Daily News & Analysis (06/Feb/2013)
    Universal wanted a carbon copy of his previous hit, North by Northwest, with all the usual elements in place - colour, stars, romance, glamorous locations, and suspense, but not too much to frighten the horses. Hitchcock had other ideas. One of them was ...
  • Movie Reviews: Hitchcock, Wreck-It Ralph, I Give It A Year and In Brum - The Birmingham Post (06/Feb/2013)
    Only last August, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) was named as the greatest film of all in the latest once-a-decade poll of critics by The British Film Institute's Sight & Sound magazine. Born in 1899, Hitchcock died in LA in 1980 at the age of 80, and this biopic ...
  • Movie review: Hitchcock - Wishaw Press (06/Feb/2013)
    In 1960 legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock scared audiences silly with Psycho, one of my favourite movies of all time. Hitchcock is the story of the making of that seminal piece of cinema, starring Anthony Hopkins as the great man and Helen Mirren as his ...
  • Win PSYCHO the Novel by Robert Bloch - Filmoria (blog) (06/Feb/2013)
    This Friday sees the UK release of Hitchcock, the story of Alfred Hitchcock's struggle to make one his most seminal works, Psycho! To celebrate the release of the film, we've teamed up with the good folks at Hale Books to give away a copy of the novel Psycho ...
  • Psycho director's murderous scene for film - Kent Online (06/Feb/2013)
    Director Sacha Gervasi pays tribute to the iconic film-maker in this compelling biopic based on the book Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho by Stephen Rebello. Adapted for the screen by John J McLaughlin, Hitchcock focuses on the fractious ...
  • Hitchcock - Daily Dischord (blog) (06/Feb/2013)
    ... it's a pity more hasn't been made of Anthony Hopkins' work in Hitchcock, a surprisingly light-hearted examination of the trials and tribulations experienced by visionary director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of his controversial ...
  • Director: Sacha Gervasi - Baltic Times (06/Feb/2013)
    After the success of “North by Northwest,” Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins, who manages to turn a performance that doesn't turn into parody) turns his attention to adapting a pulp novel called Psycho. The studio objects, but – with the help of tough wife ...
  • PREVIEWS: The Clone Wars 5.17 – “Sabatoge” - Big Shiny Robot! (06/Feb/2013)
    The four episodes of this arc are all named after Alfred Hitchcock films: Sabotage (1936), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), To Catch a Thief (1955) and The Wrong Man (1955). · “I'm afraid one can become the other,” says Anakin, referring to past ...
  • Film review: Hitchcock - New Zealand Listener (06/Feb/2013)
    You'll smile at the bookending of this: Anthony Hopkins in fat-suit and prosthetics mimicking Hitchcock's famous bookendings in “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” (“Good eev-e-ning”). But it's the making of Psycho that's the focus of the film, which is based on ...
  • CLONE WARS: Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage - Big Shiny Robot! (06/Feb/2013)
    It's been no secret that the next four episodes of The Clone Wars all have titles linked to Alfred Hitchcock films. Alfred Hitchcock was one of the greatest storyteller's of any generation of filmmakers, and it's obvious The Clone Wars crew looks up to them.
  • Hitchcock-style suspense - The Australian (06/Feb/2013)
    ALFRED Hitchcock had countless admirers and imitators in France, including such filmmakers as Claude Chabrol, another master of the psychological thriller. DENIS Dercourt's The Page Turner is a brilliant film in the Hitchcock-Chabrol tradition - slow-paced ...
  • Fresh Film In Budapest: 'Hitchcock' - XpatLoop.com (06/Feb/2013)
    Movie type: Drama - This often darkly comic drama is not a biography of director Alfred Hitchcock's entire life but actually only concentrated on the making of one of his most famous films, Psycho, and his relationship with his wife. Fans of leads Anthony ...
  • VIDEO: Hitchcock verdicts at Cineworld Sheffield - Sheffield Telegraph (06/Feb/2013)
    It's a snapshot look at the life of Alfred Hitchcock, superbly acted by Sir Anthony Hopkins, as it follows the making of his most famous film, Psycho. There's a twist. It reveals wife, Alma Reville, with Helen Mirren putting in another commanding performance, was ...
  • Movie review: Hitchcock against all odds - The Express Tribune (06/Feb/2013)
    Can a movie, even a standard biopic about Alfred Hitchcock, possibly do justice to such a legendary master of the same medium? It's hard to say for sure. But if we can leave aside overwhelming expectations of a tribute and look at the film for what it is, the ...
  • Films with Deathly Beginnings - FemaleFirst.co.uk (07/Feb/2013)
    For all Alfred Hitchcock is famous for, the upcoming film Hitchcock is his biography revealing the side of Alfred most people don't know. Here we take a look at just few of the many films that were pioneered by one of Hitchcock's ideas to start a film by killing off ...
  • Hitchcock - RTÉ Ten review - RTE.ie (07/Feb/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock made a career out of putting beautiful women in great peril in his movies. He was the master of elaborate damsel in distress scenarios in which he trained his beady eye on an alternative A list of fifties and sixties screen goddesses whose icy ...
  • Hopkins, Helen, and Hitchcock - Weston & Somerset Mercury (07/Feb/2013)
    The saying goes that behind every great man is a great woman, and director Sacha Gervasi sets out to prove the point by revealing the wife of master director Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville, as unseen collaborator and muse on his most important works.
  • VIDEO: Hitchcock verdicts at Cineworld Sheffield - The Star (07/Feb/2013)
    It's a snapshot look at the life of Alfred Hitchcock, superbly acted by Sir Anthony Hopkins, as it follows the making of his most famous film, Psycho. There's a twist. It reveals wife, Alma Reville, with Helen Mirren putting in another commanding performance, was ...
  • Best of Hitchcock - Vertigo - FemaleFirst.co.uk (07/Feb/2013)
    Today Vertigo is widely regarded as one of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest movies - hard to believe that when it was released in 1958 it struggled at the box office and failed to win over the critics. But as the years have passed people have come to appreciate what ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock horror film Psycho was supposed to be a COMEDY - SWNS (07/Feb/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock's iconic horror film Psycho was supposed to be a comedy, a new collection of BBC interviews reveal. The film, widely regarded as the world's first 'slasher' movie, terrified and shocked cinema-goers when it opened in 1960. It contained ...
  • Hitchcock: our verdict - Scout London (07/Feb/2013)
    Director Sacha Gervasi's love letter to the golden age of Hollywood concentrates on the fractious relationship between Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and his screenwriter wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) during the turbulent period when the couple ...
  • Hitchcock Review - HeyUGuys (07/Feb/2013)
    Hitchcock The title of this so-called biopic is somewhat misleading, as Sacha Gervasi's take on the great British filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock is more a study of a particular section of his life, as we delve into his marriage with wife Alma Reville amidst the making ...
  • Movie review: Hitchcock - Prague Post (07/Feb/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock reveals the connection between him and his Psycho protagonist. Hitchcock doesn't show us what a great man the Master of Suspense was as much as it shows us what a remarkable woman his wife was. The film, by documentary director ...
  • Hitchcock: Psycho was a comedy - Yahoo! Movies UK (07/Feb/2013)
    I was horrified to find that some people took it seriously." The interview features in 'Alfred Hitchcock: In His Own Words', an audiobook re-released this week to coincide with today's premiere of 'Hitchcock', the new Hollywood biopic starring Anthony Hopkins.
  • Review: Hitchcock, Certificate 12A, 98 minutes *** - The Press, York (07/Feb/2013)
    THE GIRL, seen on BBC2 at Christmas, used the making of The Birds to expose the sexual foibles and personality quirks of director Alfred Hitchcock, notably his penchant for casting icy blondes as his leading ladies with whom he took an unhealthy interest.
  • Brian's ebook is a Hitchcock thriller - The Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter (07/Feb/2013)
    Vale man Brian Hannan - who was born in Bonhill and grew up in Balloch - has already enjoyed widespread acclaim and success since publishing his ebook on the master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock and has already been asked to write a follow-up.
  • Mirren: Hopkins is so supportive - Jersey Evening Post (07/Feb/2013)
    The British Oscar-winners play Alfred Hitchcock and wife Alma in the new biopic of the acclaimed Psycho director. Dame Helen said of her Welsh leading man – who had to wear prosthetics and a fat suit for the role: “We worked really, really well together and I ...
  • COMPETITION: Win exclusive merchandise from the new film Hitchcock - Knutsford Guardian (07/Feb/2013)
    Sacha Gervasi's film tells the story behind Alfred Hitchcock's classic Psycho focusing on the creative and personal partnership between the director and his wife Alma (Helen Mirren). With the release of North by Northwest in 1959, Hitchcock was one of the ...
  • Mirren: Hopkins is so supportive - Irish Independent (07/Feb/2013)
    The British Oscar-winners play Alfred Hitchcock and wife Alma in the new biopic of the acclaimed Psycho director. Dame Helen said of her Welsh leading man - who had to wear prosthetics and a fat suit for the role: "We worked really, really well together and I ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock: Psycho was meant to be a comedy - Telegraph.co.uk (07/Feb/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock: Psycho was meant to be a comedy. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, voted the scariest movie of all time, was supposed to be a comedy designed to make audiences "giggle with pleasure", a new collection of BBC interviews reveal. 560. 315 ...
  • Hitchcock, Wreck It Ralph & No movie reviews - Newstalk 106-108 fm (blog) (07/Feb/2013)
    Hitchcock is a 2012 American biographical drama film directed by Sacha Gervasi and based on Stephen Rebello's non-fiction book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. Hitchcock centers on the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his ...
  • Hitchcock, review - Telegraph.co.uk (07/Feb/2013)
    From Hitchcock's own cameo appearances and his introductions to the Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series, we know that he was an expert self-mythologiser – and what's more, Psycho is a film about public personae and the dirt that lurks beneath them ...
  • Film review: Hitchcock (12A) - The Wharf (07/Feb/2013)
    Standing outside the auditorium of one of the few screens where Psycho was allowed to play, an arm-waving Alfred Hitchcock conducts the audience within. Listening through the door, he raises them to a crescendo of screams, he cues the stabbing violins ...
  • Body of Work - Oxford Mail (07/Feb/2013)
    In a career spanning more than 50 years, London-born film-maker Alfred Hitchcock redefined the cinematic landscape with his diabolical and twisted thrillers. Audiences screamed and cowered on cue, and Hollywood courted his enviable talents behind the ...
  • Films with deadly beginnings - in pictures - Orange UK News (07/Feb/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock is regarded as 'The Master of Suspense', most well known for amplifying anxiety, panic and high levels of anticipation in cinema. A pure genius in filmmaking, he revolutionised Hollywood with his distinctive directorial style. For all Alfred ...
  • Film & DVD: Hitchcock - TV3.ie (07/Feb/2013)
    Hitchcock is based on Stephen Rebello's book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, but if you are looking forward to watching this film simply because you want a behind the scenes insight into how the classic 1960s horror film was made, you are in for ...
  • Film: Hitchcock (12A) Tortured genius of visionary is a thrill to watch - This is Leicestershire (07/Feb/2013)
    In a career spanning more than 50 years, London-born film-maker Alfred Hitchcock redefined the cinematic landscape with his diabolical and twisted thrillers. Audiences screamed and cowered on cue, and Hollywood courted his enviable talents behind the ...
  • 5 Best Male Performances In Alfred Hitchcock Films - WhatCulture! (07/Feb/2013)
    It's nearly universally agreed upon that Alfred Hitchcock is one of the best – if not the very best – directors to have ever lived. The Master of Suspense made pictures that succeeded in the silent and sound eras. His films ranged from suspense horror to film noir ...
  • Film review: A brilliant Hopkins makes a fully rounded Hitchcock - The Independent (07/Feb/2013)
    In Julian Jarrold's recent TV movie The Girl, Alfred Hitchcock was portrayed as a neurotic and predatory figure, tormenting his latest blonde star Tippi Hedren during the making of The Birds (1963). Sacha Gervasi's Hitchcock, set three years earlier when the ...
  • A Hitch-Cock And Bull Story - U.TV (blog) (07/Feb/2013)
    Legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock, who died in 1980, has been curiously resurrected for a revealing new big screen biography starring Sir Anthony Hopkins. YouTube. For the first time we see behind the torn shower curtain on the troubled set of Psycho.
  • Hitchcock Review: A Flaccid Biopic That's Disappointing In Every Way - WhatCulture! (07/Feb/2013)
    The Story of Anvil) biopic of arguably the greatest filmmaker who has ever lived, The Master of Suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock. Even if the script were in place – which it isn't – there's a troubling extravagance in the peculiarly Oscar-nominated make-up job ...
  • Hitchcock [REVIEW] - Here Is The City (07/Feb/2013)
    Hitchcock. It is 1959, and Alfred Hitchcock, just coming off the success of North by Northwest, is eager to start a new film. He chooses to film a novel called Psycho, loosely based on a real-life murder. He has more trouble than he expects, as shown in the new ...
  • Hitchcock – review - The Guardian (07/Feb/2013)
    It is about Alfred Hitchcock making his pulp-nightmare masterpiece Psycho, a career departure on which he gambled his reputation and, indeed, his own money. The result is self-conscious and unsatisfying: a shallow and naive celebratory biopic. Hitchcock ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho 'was meant to be a black comedy' - Metro (07/Feb/2013)
    Director Alfred Hitchcock wanted his iconic 1960 film to be 'tongue-in-cheek' and was 'horrified' by the reactions of audiences, a new collection of BBC interviews reveal. It promises to end decades of argument over whether the movie was supposed to be a ...
  • Psycho-ho-ho: Alfred Hitchcock's horror film was intended to be a comedy - Mirror.co.uk (07/Feb/2013)
    The iconic horror film Psycho was intended as a comedy, its director Alfred Hitchcock re-veals in a newly found talk. Cinema-goers were shocked and terrified in 1960 by what is regarded as the first “slasher” movie. Its unprecedented violence included the ...
  • Mirren keen on 'low-budget' Hitchcock success - The West Australian (07/Feb/2013)
    The British star is tipped in the Leading Actress category for her portrayal of Alfred Hitchcock's wife Alma Reville in the project, which features Sir Anthony Hopkins as the legendary director. Dame Helen is praying her name is called out at the London ...
  • The Irish Times - Friday, February 8, 2013 - Irish Times (07/Feb/2013)
    Unnerved by the suggestion that he might like to retire after North By Northwest, master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) determines to shake things up with film of Robert Bloch's pulpy take on the Ed Gein murders. The studio is rather less ...
  • HITCHCOCK: PSYCHO WAS A COMEDY - Yahoo!7 News (07/Feb/2013)
    New interviews show director was surprised punters found it scary. February 8, 2013, 10:48 am. 'Psycho', the shocking horror famously saw Janet Leigh brutally stabbed to death in a shower... was actually a comedy - according to director Alfred Hitchcock.
  • Hitchcock biopic looks good but enlightens little - CITY A.M. (07/Feb/2013)
    The problem is, sometimes it really shows – beyond the rippling fat-suit and layers of impressive cosmetics, the only similarity between him and Alfred Hitchcock is their initials. Hitchcock centres around the troubled birth of the director's most famous movie, ...
  • Hitchcock (Subtitled) - Sky Tyne and Wear (07/Feb/2013)
    In a career spanning more than 50 years, London-born film-maker Alfred Hitchcock redefined the cinematic landscape with his diabolical and twisted thrillers. Audiences screamed and cowered on cue, and Hollywood courted his enviable talents behind the ...
  • Psycho (Hitchcock Version) + Introduction - Sky Tyne and Wear (07/Feb/2013)
    A re-issue of Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1960 thriller which has been ingrained in movie lore thanks to that one shower scene and Bernard Herrmann's unsettling score. In any other director's hands, Psycho wouldn't work, but Hitchcock teases the audience at ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock: Psycho film was meant to be funny - The Sun (07/Feb/2013)
    CLASSIC horror film Psycho was meant to be FUNNY, newly-unearthed interviews with director Alfred Hitchcock reveal. The movie terrified cinema-goers with its unparalleled violence in 1960. But Hitchcock intended it to be “tongue in cheek” — including the ...
  • The Sun's round-up of the week's new films - The Sun (07/Feb/2013)
    BASED loosely on the book Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho, this movie charts a brief period in the legendary director's career. Having just completed his film North By Northwest, we find Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) desperate to prove to critics ...
  • Win Hitchcock merchandise - Entertainment Focus (07/Feb/2013)
    To celebrate the February 8 release of Hitchcock, we've got three merchandise packs to give away! Each pack includes a t-shirt, pen, CD soundtrack, cup and saucer, and a copy of Alfred Hitchcock and The Making of Psycho on which the film is based.
  • Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' was meant to be comedy - Yahoo! India News (07/Feb/2013)
    London, February 28 8 (ANI): Alfred Hitchcock has revealed in a newly unearthed interview that his iconic horror film 'Psycho' was intended to be a comedy. Hitchcock told the TV programme Monitor in July 1964 that he had once made a movie, rather ...
  • Hitchcock's 'Psycho' was meant to be comedy - Times of India (07/Feb/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock has revealed in a newly unearthed interview that his iconic horror film 'Psycho' was intended to be a comedy. Hitchcock told the TV programme Monitor in July 1964 that he had once made a movie, rather tongue-in-cheek, called 'Psycho,' ...
  • Hitchcock is entertaining Sunday matinee material - Metro (07/Feb/2013)
    Film Review: Sir Anthony Hopkins plays Alfred Hitchcock? Talk about a dead cert for a best actor award. Yet Hopkins went un-gonged and co-star Dame Helen Mirren is quite rightly up for a Best Actress Bafta in a film that should be titled Mrs Hitchcock.
  • Alfred Hitchcock: 'Psycho was meant to be a comedy' - Digital Spy UK (07/Feb/2013)
    Recently-released interviews with iconic film director Alfred Hitchcock have revealed that he intended classic horror picture Psycho to be a comedy. The Telegraph reports that interviews from the BBC archives confirm Hitchcock believed the movie to be ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock: 'Psycho was meant to be a comedy' - Digital Spy (07/Feb/2013)
    Recently-released interviews with iconic film director Alfred Hitchcock have revealed that he intended classic horror picture Psycho to be a comedy. The Telegraph reports that interviews from the BBC archives confirm Hitchcock believed the movie to be ...
  • Anthony Hopkins 'lives' role of Hitchcock in droll bio-pic - The Week UK (07/Feb/2013)
    Sacha Gervasi's bio-pic Hitchcock, based on Stephen Rebello's non-fiction book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, opens in UK cinemas today. The film focuses on the relationship between director Hitchcock (played by Anthony Hopkins), his wife ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock meant 'Psycho' to be a comedy? - Deccan Herald (08/Feb/2013)
    It is one of the most famous horror films in cinema history but in a newly-unearthed interview Alfred Hitchcock says 1960 classic 'Psycho' was meant to be a comedy. Hitchcock crossed several hurdles to make the film, which shocked the audiences at that time ...
  • Movie review: Hitchcock (12A) - Scottish Daily Record (08/Feb/2013)
    STARRING Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren, this film puts legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock under the microscope as he battles personal and professional demons as he tries to mount Psycho. David Edwards. ****. Toni Collette, Helen Mirren and ...
  • There will be blood - The Economist (blog) (08/Feb/2013)
    After all, when Alfred Hitchcock embarked on “Psycho” in 1959, he was a huge (in every sense) celebrity who had just had a smash hit with “North By Northwest”. But “Hitchcock” argues that “Psycho” was a daring gamble all the same. The studios didn't want a ...
  • Psycho thriller? No, it was all a big joke - The Guardian (blog) (08/Feb/2013)
    Its shower scene is one of the most famous in cinema history and has spawned many pale imitations over the past 50 years, but Alfred Hitchcock apparently meant his 1960 suspense horror film Psycho to be a comedy, the Mirror and Telegraph report.
  • Review: Hitchcock (12A) - Yorkshire Post (08/Feb/2013)
    In attempting Alfred Hitchcock, Hopkins makes what is a potentially fatal error: he opts not for caricature. By the time he made Psycho in 1960 – the backdrop for this hybrid of romance and character study – Hitchcock was arguably the most famous filmmaker ...
  • Hitchcock - Contactmusic.com (08/Feb/2013)
    What could have been an intriguing look at how Alfred Hitchcock created one of his most iconic masterpieces is instead turned into a gently entertaining romp. We may enjoy watching the twists and turns as this troubled project takes shape, but the script ...
  • ELLE reviews Hitchcock - ELLE UK (08/Feb/2013)
    It¹s the late 50s and director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) is shocking the studios by branching out into horror movies. It¹s make or break for his career and possibly star Janet¹s too. Meanwhile Hitch¹s supportive wife Alma (Helen Mirren) indulges in a ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock: 'Psycho was a joke' - The Guardian (08/Feb/2013)
    It was the film that outraged the censors, terrified the public and prompted the Observer's film critic to storm out of a preview screening and resign in disgust. Yet it now transpires that Psycho may have been tragically misunderstood. Its director, Alfred Hitchcock ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock on Psycho: 'It was mean to be a comedy'. - Entertainment.ie (08/Feb/2013)
    Who'd have thought it; Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was meant to be a comedy. Shower murders, psychos and sexuality - not exactly what we'd call a barrel of laughs though, would you? Reported by The Telegraph, through research of old BBC archived ...
  • Hitchcock - video review - The Guardian (08/Feb/2013)
    In an excerpt from this week's Guardian Film Show Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard review Sacha Gervasi's take on what happened behind the scenes on Alfred Hitchcock's most infamous movie. Anthony Hopkins plays Hitch, while Helen ...
  • Did Alfred Hitchcock see the funny side of Psycho? - The Guardian (08/Feb/2013)
    But it turns out that Psycho's director, Alfred Hitchcock, may have intended the iconic chiller as a rather more playful affair. In newly unearthed comments made in 1964 he apparently described the film as a "tongue-in-cheek" movie for which "the content was, ...
  • Hitchcock Blonde – review - The Guardian (08/Feb/2013)
    Hitchcock Blonde at the Hull Truck Company. Fantasy fiction … Hitchcock Blonde at the Hull Truck theatre. Photograph: Peter Byrne. Why did Alfred Hitchcock prefer blondes? "Because they make the best victims," he said. They also make for a lot of biopics, ...
  • The horror! Hitchcock meant 'Psycho' to be a comedy - Times of India (08/Feb/2013)
    LONDON: It is one of the most famous horror films in cinema history but in a newly-unearthed interview Alfred Hitchcock says 1960 film "Psycho" was meant to be a comedy. Hitchcock crossed several hurdles to make the film, which shocked the audiences at ...
  • Hitchcock – review - The Guardian (09/Feb/2013)
    Particular interest has recently been shown in Alfred Hitchcock, one of only two movie directors whose faces are immediately recognisable to popular audiences the world over. The other, of course, is Hitchcock's fellow working-class Londoner, Charlie ...
  • Film fans Badgley and Misckha look back to Hitchcock for new fall fashion - Washington Post (12/Feb/2013)
    The fall looks the designers turned out on Tuesday at New York Fashion Week had the film-noir vibe that always does well for them on the modern Hollywood red carpet. This time, the inspiration was Alfred Hitchcock movies — their favorite being “Vertigo.” ...
  • Editorial: The Curious Case of Corvus Corax - Elko Daily Free Press (15/Feb/2013)
    It was a mystery worthy of Alfred Hitchcock: birds from nowhere laying waste to the landscape. The predator control debate rages on in rural Nevada. Does killing predators boost the survival rate of prey, or does biology include some kind of twilight-zone factor ...
  • 'Presenting Hitchcock' to begin March 20 at USABC - al.com (blog) (15/Feb/2013)
    Riser said students will be able to "peer into Alfred Hitchcock's world and try to discern what made him unique" through the study of six of his best films. Cost of the class is $45. To register, call 251-928-8133 or stop by the Administration Building at 10 N.
  • Review: Hitchcock (PG13) - AsiaOne (15/Feb/2013)
    Anthony Hopkins, with some help from prosthetics and a fat suit, does a wonderful job as Alfred Hitchcock, arguably the greatest director of all time. The film follows his struggles as he films Psycho, that seminal 1960 slasher flick that turned out to be one of his ...
  • CLONE WARS: The Man Who Knew Too Much - Big Shiny Robot! (15/Feb/2013)
    Tomorrow's episode of The Clone Wars is called “The Jedi Who Knew Too Much,” with the title quite blatantly homaging Alfred Hitchcock's “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” I'm not sure how much tomorrow's episode is going to borrow from either Hitchcock ...
  • In Xtra this week... - Redditch Advertiser (16/Feb/2013)
    CELEBRITY: Dame Helen Mirren is back on the big screen playing Alfred Hitchcock's wife and looking as fabulous as ever. She tells Xtra about almost becoming one of the director's famous 'blondes' in real life. BOOKS: She hates her books being branded ...
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Jedi Who Knew Too Much" Review: Born to Run - TV.com (blog) (16/Feb/2013)
    Stripped to their barest of bones, the plots of many of Alfred Hitchcock's films are about an ordinary person thrust into extraordinary situations. While a Jedi Padawan is hardly an ordinary person, Ahsoka Tano is the closest thing The Clone Wars has to that sort ...
  • Feature : Lights, Camera, Action! – Hitchcock - Cubed3 (16/Feb/2013)
    Based on Stephen Rebello's 1990 book, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, director Sacha Gervasi's film is a total treat! Unlike the recent TV film about Hitchcock The Girl, which tried to assassinate the director's character and forgot to mention his ...
  • Lights, Camera, Action! – Hitchcock - Cubed3 (16/Feb/2013)
    Based on Stephen Rebello's 1990 book, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, director Sacha Gervasi's film is a total treat! Unlike the recent TV film about Hitchcock The Girl, which tried to assassinate the director's character and forgot to mention his ...
  • Larger Than Life: 'Hitchcock' Review - Oxford Student (16/Feb/2013)
    The films of British 'master of suspense' Alfred Hitchcock are experiencing a revival of popularity, including the screening of a full retrospective at the BFI last year. Hitchcock has also been subject to biographical attentions, first in BBC/HBO collaboration The ...
  • Bird invasion brings real-life horror to Kentucky city - Chicago Tribune (17/Feb/2013)
    By Tim Ghianni NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb 17 (Reuters) - Millions of birds have. descended on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, "The Birds." ...
  • Bird invasion brings real-life horror to Kentucky city - GlobalPost (17/Feb/2013)
    NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb 17 (Reuters) - Millions of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, "The Birds." The blackbirds ...
  • Milioni di merli assediano Nashville - L'Huffington Post (17/Feb/2013)
    Non siamo a Bodega Bay in California dove nel 1963 Alfred Hitchcock ambientò il suo inquietante 'Uccelli' ma Hopkinsville in Kentucky, 35.000 abitanti. Ma Nashville (Tennessee), complice le temperature non particolarmente rigide, è stata scelta come luogo ...
  • Turkey vultures flock to North Carolina town, await Hitchcock remake - msnNOW (17/Feb/2013)
    Even if you haven't seen Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds," you probably know what it's about. So when a bunch of them uncharacteristically roost in one area, there's reason to get nervous, even if it's based in movie fiction. But the residents of Shelby, N.C., aren't ...
  • Kentucky town faces real-life version of 'The Birds' - Toronto Sun (17/Feb/2013)
    Millions of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, “The Birds.” The blackbirds and European starlings blacken the sky of ...
  • Bird invasion brings real-life horror to Kentucky city - Gulf Times (17/Feb/2013)
    Millions of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, The Birds. The blackbirds and European starlings blacken the sky of ...
  • US town under attack from The Birds - Stuff.co.nz (17/Feb/2013)
    Millions of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, The Birds. The blackbirds and European starlings blacken the sky of ...
  • town under attack from The Birds - The Dominion Post (17/Feb/2013)
    Millions of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, The Birds. The blackbirds and European starlings blacken the sky of ...
  • Bird invasion brings real-life horror to Kentucky city - TVNZ (17/Feb/2013)
    Millions of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, The Birds. The blackbirds and European starlings blacken the sky of ...
  • Hitchcock heroine inspires Temperley London show - Philippine Star (17/Feb/2013)
    LONDON (AP) — Alfred Hitchcock seems to be in fashion these days: There's the movie starring Anthony Hopkins, a BBC drama about the filmmaker, and now designer Alice Temperley has based her latest womenswear collection on the style of "The Birds" ...
  • Hitchcock heroine inspires Temperley London show - Bayoubuzz (17/Feb/2013)
    LONDON (AP) — Alfred Hitchcock seems to be in fashion these days: There's the movie starring Anthony Hopkins , a BBC drama about the filmmaker, and now designer Alice Temperley has based her latest womenswear collection on the style of "The Birds" ...
  • US bird invasion brings real-life horror - News24 (17/Feb/2013)
    Nashville - Millions of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this year, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, The Birds. The blackbirds and European starlings blacken ...
  • Bird invasion brings real-life horror to Kentucky city - Denver Post (17/Feb/2013)
    Millions of birds have descended on a Kentucky city, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's film, "The Birds." The blackbirds and European starlings blacken the sky of Hopkinsville, Ky., and ...
  • Bird invasion brings real-life horror - Independent Online (18/Feb/2013)
    Nashville - Millions of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, The Birds. The blackbirds and European starlings blacken ...
  • Hitchcock heroine inspires Temperley London show - Yahoo! News (blog) (18/Feb/2013)
    LONDON (AP) — Alfred Hitchcock seems to be in fashion these days: There's the movie starring Anthony Hopkins, a BBC drama about the filmmaker, and now designer Alice Temperley has based her latest womenswear collection on the style of "The Birds" ...
  • Bird invasion brings horror and disease to Kentucky city - Bangor Daily News (18/Feb/2013)
    Millions of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, “The Birds.” The blackbirds and European starlings blacken the sky of ...
  • Bird invasion brings real-life horror to Kentucky city - Chicago Tribune (19/Feb/2013)
    NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Millions of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, "The Birds." The blackbirds and ...
  • 'Bates Motel' Season 1 Preview Scenes - Crave Online (19/Feb/2013)
    This was due to Perkins' performance, the direction of Alfred Hitchcock in the original Psycho and some seriously disturbing bonds between Norman and his mother. Next month, A&E reimagines Norman's story in the present with Freddie Highmore taking ...
  • Bird invasion brings real-life horror - Emirates 24/7 (19/Feb/2013)
    Millions of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, "The Birds." The blackbirds and European starlings blacken the sky of ...
  • Bird invasion brings real-life horror to town - Emirates 24/7 (19/Feb/2013)
    Millions of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, "The Birds." The blackbirds and European starlings blacken the sky of ...
  • Reuters Odd News Summary - GlobalPost (19/Feb/2013)
    NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Millions of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, "The Birds." The blackbirds and ...
  • New 'Bates Motel' Trailer: There's Something Wrong with Norman Bates - Screen Rant (20/Feb/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is commonly held up as the granddaddy of slasher horror flicks, in addition to being one of the greatest motion pictures of all time. A&E's prequel TV series, Bates Motel, is looking to loosely explore the origins of the titular “psycho,” ...
  • BATES MOTEL Trailer Threatens To Unleash A Teenage Serial Killer - Twitch (20/Feb/2013)
    It's not that the images are shocking, or the idea that U.S. basic cable channel A&E is making the prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 horror classic the basis of a weekly television show. (We've known about it since last summer.) Part of it is the decision to set ...
  • Birds bring real-life horror to Kentucky - The News International (20/Feb/2013)
    NASHVILLE: Millions of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, "The Birds." The blackbirds and European starlings ...
  • Skovlen under Hitchcock - Dagbladet Information (20/Feb/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock og hans kone, Alma, som blev krediteret på mindst 11 af hans spillefilm for hendes hjælp med manuskriptet. De er fotograferet på Hotel d'Angleterres balkon i 1966 under indspilningerne af filmen 'Jerntæppet', der foregår delvist i København ...
  • Reuters Odd News Summary - GlobalPost (20/Feb/2013)
    NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Millions of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, "The Birds." The blackbirds and ...
  • Bates Motel gets a new trailer and extended look preview - Flickering Myth (blog) (20/Feb/2013)
    Created by Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Kerry Ehrin (Friday Night Lights), the series is described as a contemporary prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece, and "promises to give viewers an intimate portrayal of how Norman Bates' psyche unravels ...
  • US bird invasion brings real-life horror - Times of India (20/Feb/2013)
    NASHVILLE: Millions of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this year, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, "The Birds". The blackbirds and European starlings ...
  • Bates Motel Debuts Full Trailer - Comic Book Resources (20/Feb/2013)
    That probably doesn't come as much of a shock to anyone who's read the 1959 Robert Bloch novel or the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock movie, but you might be surprised at how creepy the new A&E thriller appears. We've seen a series of images, posters and even a ...
  • Millions Of Birds Invade Small Kentucky Town [Video] - The Inquisitr (20/Feb/2013)
    The citizens of Hopkinsville have been contending with a scene straight out of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Birds. Millions of blackbirds and European starlings have reportedly descended on the town, leaving a mess of droppings in their wake. According to ...
  • Dixie's radio play comes off without a Hitch - Apalachicola Times (20/Feb/2013)
    The 1940s period piece is a series of adaptations of three early films directed by Alfred Hitchcock: "The Lodger," "Sabotage" and "The 39 Steps." These stories come to life in the style of a 1940s radio broadcast, with six actors playing dozens of characters, live ...
  • Performances outshine movies - Nelson Mail (20/Feb/2013)
    Washington earned a best actor nomination for his impressive portrayal of an alcoholic pilot facing a professional and personal crisis in the drama Flight; Mirren was nominated as best actress for her role in Hitchcock as wife to director Alfred Hitchcock during ...
  • Hollywood's back in Bodega and Bodega Bay - Santa Rosa Press Democrat (20/Feb/2013)
    Ever since Alfred Hitchcock invaded Bodega and Bodega Bay in the 1960s, the towns have been on the Hollywood rolodex and numerous film and television crews have put in appearances, often shooting commercials. So no one was very surprised to see ...
  • Writer puts focus on Hitchcock - Glasgow Evening Times (21/Feb/2013)
    He will discuss Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films, including Rear Window, Vertigo and The Birds, at the Oxfam Bookshop in Byres Road on Thursday next week. The talk will centre on themes discussed in his book Darkness Visible: Hitchcock's Greatest Film.
  • FILM REVIEW: Hitchcock - Bedfordshire News (21/Feb/2013)
    But despite great performances from Hopkins in the title role as legendary horror/thriller director Alfred Hitchcock and Mirren as his producer wife Alma Reville, the movie as a whole doesn't quite set the screen alight. With a disjointed story that fails to deliver ...
  • Angry birds — avian invasion brings real-life horror to city - Khaleej Times (21/Feb/2013)
    Millions of birds have descen-ded on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, The Birds. The blackbirds and European starlings blacken the sky of ...
  • Review: Hitchcock - The Yorker (21/Feb/2013)
    “What if someone really good made a horror picture?" After the success of North By Northwest, Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) is looking for his next film to direct and, in Robert Bloch's novel Psycho, finds what he is looking for. The studio is firmly against it ...
  • Penn State Brandywine presents "The Master of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock" - ReadMedia (press release) (21/Feb/2013)
    MEDIA, PA (02/21/2013)(readMedia)-- Penn State Brandywine will welcome Andrew Douglas, director of education at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, to campus for an attention-grabbing discussion about a pioneer of the film industry, Alfred Hitchcock. Students ...
  • Kentucky Birds, New York Rats Raise Disease Risks, Climate Change Concerns - Huffington Post (21/Feb/2013)
    When Rick Ostfeld heard about the sky-darkening flocks of birds descending this winter on Hopkinsville, Ky., he couldn't help but think of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds." "I remember watching it multiple times as a kid, just to scare myself," said Ostfeld, a disease ...
  • First Trailer For A&E's 'Bates Motel' - Science Fiction (21/Feb/2013)
    Last summer, it was revealed that 'Bates Motel', the prequel series to Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller 'Psycho' on A&E, would be getting a straight to series order of ten episodes. Since then, we've seen some teasers, promos, and featurettes showing off what ...
  • Penn State Brandywine presents 'The Master of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock' - Penn State Live (21/Feb/2013)
    Penn State Brandywine will welcome Andrew Douglas, director of education at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, to campus for an attention-grabbing discussion about a pioneer of the film industry, Alfred Hitchcock. Students, faculty, staff and the community are ...
  • Bathroom inspired by 'Psycho' - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (22/Feb/2013)
    Not many people would think of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller, “Psycho,” as an idea for home décor; however, most don't have a shower curtain for inspiration. Larry Wardlaw, vice president for account services at Asher Agency, has devoted one of his ...
  • Oscar party features Hitchcock twist - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (22/Feb/2013)
    The independent art house movie theater downtown is hosting its annual Oscar party tonight with a Hitchcock theme, as in Alfred Hitchcock, that famous film director of such classics as “Psycho,” “Dial M for Murder” and “Vertigo.” Part of the theme of the “Dial O ...
  • Oscar picks not always right - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (22/Feb/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock never won a best director Oscar. (Wait. Think about that. Alfred Hitchcock.) And only one of his films was nominated as best picture. Was it Vertigo, Rear Window, Psycho, Notorious, Strangers on a Train, The Birds? No, it was Suspicion, which ...
  • Movie review: Hitchcock - The Galleon (22/Feb/2013)
    Hitchcock is the new biopic that tells the story of Alfred Hitchcock during the making of his arguably most famous film, Psycho. Hitchcock changed the way cinema worked, but it is his own personal story that now takes centre stage in the cinema world.
  • Mystery surrounds a Prada fall collection that Hitchcock would love - CultureMap Dallas (22/Feb/2013)
    Miuccia Prada told the New York Times that the collection was about "raw elegance," but it looks to us like a scene from an Alfred Hitchcock movie, with moody shadows, spinning ceiling fans and a silhouette of a cat — with moving tail — on the wall.
  • Tube mosaics celebrate film legend Hitchcock - Yellow Advertiser (22/Feb/2013)
    Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was the third child of William and Emma Hitchcock and was born at 517 High Road, Leytonstone in 1899. His father was a poultry dealer and fruit-importer and the family home, above the shop, survived until it was demolished in the ...
  • Hitchcock heroine inspires Temperley London show - NewsOK.com (22/Feb/2013)
    LONDON — Alfred Hitchcock seems to be in fashion these days: There's the movie starring Anthony Hopkins, a BBC drama about the filmmaker, and now designer Alice Temperley has based her latest womenswear collection on the style of "The Birds" ...
  • How San Francisco Has Changed Since Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' (Photos) - KQED (blog) (22/Feb/2013)
    Those who take part in the tour also will most likely realize how the city has changed since Hitchcock filmed his movies. It also can be seen on Reel SF, a website that collects and shares photos that show how the locations of movies set in the city appeared ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock Never Won an Academy Award - Truthdig (22/Feb/2013)
    Hitchcock did receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, but he was never recognized for individual achievement in a competitive Academy Award vote. The London-born director wasn't knighted until 1980, “a matter of carelessness,” in his words.
  • Hitchcock for March Friday films - Courier-Gazette & Camden Herald (subscription) (22/Feb/2013)
    March showcases movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Scheduled to be screened are: March 1, “Strangers on a Train" (1951, USA); March 8, “Rear Window” (1954, USA); March 15, “Notorious” (1946, USA); March 22, “North by Northwest” (1959, USA); and ...
  • Scene stealer - Brisbane Times (24/Feb/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock leers at us with one eye cocked and his bottom lip protruding. This is his city and he's daring us to get closer. Our guide, Jay Sherwin, snaps the brochure away from us and points in the direction of the Brocklebank building that looms at the ...
  • "The Master of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock," March 14, 7 pm - Penn State Delaware County (25/Feb/2013)
    Penn State Brandywine will welcome Andrew Douglas, director of education at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, to campus for an attention-grabbing discussion about a pioneer of the film industry, Alfred Hitchcock. Students, faculty, staff and the community are ...
  • Discover Hitchcock's city view - Stuff.co.nz (26/Feb/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock leers at us with one eye cocked and his bottom lip protruding. This is his city and he's daring us to get closer. Our guide, Jay Sherwin, snaps the brochure away from us and points in the direction of the Brocklebank building that looms at the ...
  • Shadow of the Master: Park Chan-wook - The Phoenix (27/Feb/2013)
    Park Chan-wook, whose Korean films Oldboy, Thirst, and others have earned him cult status in the West, acknowledges the similarities between his first Hollywood movie, Stoker, and Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt. Call it an homage, since a Hitchcock ...
  • Behind the scenes of a classic - Times of Malta (27/Feb/2013)
    Hitchcock is based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, a non-fiction work by Stephen Rebello that focuses on the relationship between one of the most influential directors ever and his wife during the making of the film that changed the ...
  • Movie Buzz: A thrilling Film Forum on tap: 'Hitchcock' and 'Psycho' - The Saratogian (27/Feb/2013)
    The best-known, most easily recognized movie director of all time was Alfred Hitchcock, but with 47 feature films in his extraordinary career, even the “master of suspense” had trouble getting the respect and support he deserved. It took an intimate, ...
  • The Birds Are Back In Town - Stacey Page Online (27/Feb/2013)
    The suburbs of Warsaw share a striking resemblance to Alfred Hitchcock's “The Birds” this week as swarms of turkey vultures (also known as turkey buzzards) overtake the skies and trees. After receiving a photo from local reader Sheri Krichbaum, I ventured ...
  • '39 Steps,' four actors, 150 characters - Helena Independent Record (27/Feb/2013)
    A quirky remake of the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film, “The 39 Steps,” the entire movie plot is re-enacted onstage, using much the same dialog, with just four actors playing a mind-spinning collection of some 100 characters. The flip of a hat, a brogue, a slouch ...
  • Bear Creek goes Hitchcock - Stockton Record (28/Feb/2013)
    The Bear Creek High School drama department will present Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" this week at the school theater, 10555 Thornton Road, Stockton. In "The 39 Steps." a man encounters a woman who says she's a spy. When he takes her home, she ...
  • Giving the real Hitchcock a cameo role - Spiked (28/Feb/2013)
    The late great Alfred Hitchcock is one of the few directors who is arguably as iconic as the classic films he crafted. This rotund, jowled figure, embossed on our cultural consciousness through his incessant cameos, has, over the years, been made all the more ...
  • The Last Days of Alfred Hitchcock - Spectator.co.uk (blog) (28/Feb/2013)
    He was, therefore, the absolutely perfect choice to play Alfred Hitchcock. Actually, the new film's not that bad. It tells a good yarn about the director's wife Alma rescuing both him and Psycho, not to mention the 800 grand of their own money they'd sunk into the ...
  • Win a copy of 'Hitchcock' on Blu-ray! - Hypable (28/Feb/2013)
    Hitchcock is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock, and his wife and partner Alma Reville. The film takes place during the making of Hitchcock's seminal movie Psycho. There are two copies available to win ...
  • Movie listings - The Keene Sentinel (28/Feb/2013)
    Hitchcock (PG-13) As movie legend Alfred Hitchcock embarks on making “Pyscho,” he and his wife, Alma Reville, hit a speed bump in their marriage. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and Scarlett Johansson. Shown Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2, ...
  • Hitchcock (M) - My Sunshine Coast (press release) (28/Feb/2013)
    Shaping up as favourite of the Awards Season, Hitchcock is a love story about one of the most influential artists of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife and partner Alma Reville. A speculative film that purports to show what went on behind the scenes ...
  • Old Time players bring Hitchcock's '39 Steps' to life - Harvard Press (28/Feb/2013)
    The play is an adaptation for radio of the classic 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name, which starred Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. The British Film Institute has repeatedly voted it one of the top 25 British movies of all time. Director and producer ...
  • Career of top film director has links to Hendon Manor - This is Kent (28/Feb/2013)
    A FEW days ago I visited the Stag theatre to see Anthony Hopkins' uncannily realistic portrayal of Alfred Hitchcock, the film maker, who never won an Oscar but is still regarded as the greatest cinema director of all time. Famous as "the master of suspense" and ...
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