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June 2013

  • “Fear in the Sunlight,” by Nicola Upson (Bourbon Street Books, $14.99) - Minneapolis Star Tribune (01/Jun/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock once noted that we all fear the dark, but fear in the sunlight is more terrifying. In Nicola Upson's best book yet, the epigram is subtly tested. This is a carefully researched and richly detailed historical mystery featuring a fictional Josephine Tey ...
  • "Bates Motel": Hitchcock's Comeback - Muhlenberg Weekly (02/Jun/2013)
    Over the past few months, it seems as though the late and great film director and producer, Alfred Hitchcock, notorious for his psychological thrillers, has made a sort of comeback. In late 2012, Hitchcock, a film about the genius director and his curious on-set ...
  • Search Programme Name - stv.tv (02/Jun/2013)
    Perspectives Sunday, Jun 02, 9:25pm. Jonathan Ross examines the life and career of the most celebrated director in the history of cinema, Sir Alfred Hitchcock. GUIDANCE: Contains scenes of violence, moderate language and mild horror.
  • Screenings celebrating Leytonstone-born Hitchcock announced - This is Local London (03/Jun/2013)
    A series of screenings of films made by Leytonstone legend Alfred Hitchcock are set to take place across Waltham Forest to celebrate the opening of a new cinema. The showings around the borough, entitled Hitchcock's East End, are meant to celebrate the ...
  • Screenings celebrating Leytonstone-born Hitchcock announced - Epping Forest Guardian (03/Jun/2013)
    A series of screenings of films made by Leytonstone legend Alfred Hitchcock are set to take place across Waltham Forest to celebrate the opening of a new cinema. The showings around the borough, entitled Hitchcock's East End, are meant to celebrate the ...
  • Screenings celebrating Leytonstone-born Hitchcock announced - East London and West Essex Guardian Series (03/Jun/2013)
    A series of screenings of films made by Leytonstone legend Alfred Hitchcock are set to take place across Waltham Forest to celebrate the opening of a new cinema. The showings around the borough, entitled Hitchcock's East End, are meant to celebrate the ...
  • Hi-Lights: Stay tuned at the Bates Motel - my.hsj.org (03/Jun/2013)
    Bates Motel, is based off author Robert Bloch's novel 1959 Psycho and director Alfred Hitchcock's first 1960 Psycho film. It is now a TV series on the A&E which premiered March 18 2013 at 9:00 in the evening. The show gained popularity after ten successful ...
  • Artists' Ensemble to stage 'Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps' - Rockford Register Star (03/Jun/2013)
    ROCKFORD — The Artists' Ensemble Theater at Rockford College, 5050 E. State St., Rockford, will present "Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps.” The Tony and Drama Desk award-winning play will run June 14 through 30 at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays, ...
  • Decades Ball Raises $400000 for Lapham's Quarterly - Daily Beast (04/Jun/2013)
    It's the 1950s, with cool jazz and Alfred Hitchcock in the air. The Decades Ball, the annual party thrown for the history and literary magazine Lapham's Quarterly, raised $400,000 Monday night as guests were transported back to the '50s. Actors Tom Hanks ...
  • No thrills in early Hitchcock films - Pasadena Star-News (04/Jun/2013)
    I have in my possession the DVD boxed set "Alfred Hitchcock: The Legend Begins," which with dubious legality squeezes splotchy versions of 18 early movies, two random "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" TV episodes and an hour of film trailers onto four discs.
  • Earliest Alfred Hitchcock film rediscovered, to be available on DVD - Los Angeles Daily News (04/Jun/2013)
    A series of lost films from the 1920s -- including the earliest surviving work of Alfred Hitchcock -- that were rediscovered in New Zealand archives will soon be made public through a DVD to be released later this year, a film preservation group announced ...
  • Hitchcock documentary screening to celebrate EMD cinema inquiry result - Epping Forest Guardian (05/Jun/2013)
    The McGuffin Film Society will show the 'Alfred Hitchcock in East London' documentary in O'Neill's pub in High Road, Leytonstone on Saturday after the government decided the former EMD Cinema would better serve the community as an entertainment ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock documentary screening to celebrate Walthamstow EMD cinema ... - East London and West Essex Guardian Series (05/Jun/2013)
    A film group has announced a free screening of a Hitchcock documentary to celebrate the result of a public inquiry which it hopes moves it a step closer to reopening a defunct cinema. The McGuffin Film Society will show the 'Alfred Hitchcock in East London' ...
  • Ducks and Geese Creating Health Problem in Mon County Park - WDTV (05/Jun/2013)
    Hundreds of ducks and geese are turning Riverside Park in Star City into the scene of a Alfred Hitchcock movie. Now police said they've got to go. The birds aren't new at the park. Star City Police Chief Vic Propst said they usually make their home at the park ...
  • Many reasons to see much-anticipated production of '39 Steps' - Taunton Daily Gazette (05/Jun/2013)
    Editor's Note: This is the fourth installment of "The Craft of Stage," following the process of staging a show, specifically "The 39 Steps," a Tony Award-winning spoof of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller, which opens June 13, but has been in the works for several ...
  • Many reasons to see much-anticipated production of '39 Steps' - MetroWest Daily News (05/Jun/2013)
    Editor's Note: This is the fourth installment of "The Craft of Stage," following the process of staging a show, specifically "The 39 Steps," a Tony Award-winning spoof of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller, which opens June 13, but has been in the works for several ...
  • Many reasons to see much-anticipated production of '39 Steps' - Wicked Local Walpole (05/Jun/2013)
    Editor's Note: This is the fourth installment of "The Craft of Stage," following the process of staging a show, specifically "The 39 Steps," a Tony Award-winning spoof of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller, which opens June 13, but has been in the works for several ...
  • Genius of Alfred Hitchcock celebrated in Bellows Falls screenings - Brattleboro Reformer (06/Jun/2013)
    Citizen Hitchcock -- "Citizen Kane" (1941) has been regarded as the greatest movie of all time for so long now that to suggest otherwise would be considered outright blasphemy. After all, director Orson Welles' disregard for filmmaking conventions combined ...
  • Arctic Terning Nasty: When Seabirds Attack - Sky Tyne and Wear (06/Jun/2013)
    In scenes reminiscent of the Alfred Hitchcock classic film The Birds, thousands of Arctic terns nesting on the isolated Farne Islands, on the coast of Northumberland, are swooping down and attacking visitors. The attacks have forced people to wear hats and ...
  • Broadway's 'Rear Window' Sets Creative Team - Hollywood Reporter (06/Jun/2013)
    Based on Woolrich's 1942 short story It Had to Be Murder, Rear Window is best known via the playfully suspenseful 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly. “Rear Window is a remarkable story, with a classic film adaptation in ...
  • Club celebrates cinema victory with Hitch film - Yellow Advertiser (06/Jun/2013)
    CAMPAIGNERS are celebrating saving historic EMD cinema with a special screening of film by Alfred Hitchcock – who watched movies there when he was a boy. The McGuffin Film Society, which fought for ten years to save the Walthamstow cinema from ...
  • James Franco recreates 'Psycho' for London show - 13WHAM-TV (06/Jun/2013)
    The Spider-Man star, who now shows his artwork around the world, is preparing to make his gallery debut in the U.K. this month and he has revealed the multimedia exhibition will be themed around Alfred Hitchcock's famous 1960 thriller. Franco has ...
  • James Franco recreates 'Psycho' for London show - CBS 47 (06/Jun/2013)
    The Spider-Man star, who now shows his artwork around the world, is preparing to make his gallery debut in the U.K. this month and he has revealed the multimedia exhibition will be themed around Alfred Hitchcock's famous 1960 thriller. Franco has ...
  • James Franco recreates 'Psycho' for London show - KNVN (06/Jun/2013)
    The Spider-Man star, who now shows his artwork around the world, is preparing to make his gallery debut in the U.K. this month and he has revealed the multimedia exhibition will be themed around Alfred Hitchcock's famous 1960 thriller. Franco has ...
  • James Franco recreates 'Psycho' for London show - WTVA (06/Jun/2013)
    The Spider-Man star, who now shows his artwork around the world, is preparing to make his gallery debut in the U.K. this month and he has revealed the multimedia exhibition will be themed around Alfred Hitchcock's famous 1960 thriller. Franco has ...
  • James Franco recreates 'Psycho' for London show - WPMI Local 15 News (06/Jun/2013)
    The Spider-Man star, who now shows his artwork around the world, is preparing to make his gallery debut in the U.K. this month and he has revealed the multimedia exhibition will be themed around Alfred Hitchcock's famous 1960 thriller. Franco has ...
  • James Franco recreates 'Psycho' for London show - WBGH (06/Jun/2013)
    The Spider-Man star, who now shows his artwork around the world, is preparing to make his gallery debut in the U.K. this month and he has revealed the multimedia exhibition will be themed around Alfred Hitchcock's famous 1960 thriller. Franco has ...
  • James Franco recreates 'Psycho' for London show - KGET 17 (06/Jun/2013)
    The Spider-Man star, who now shows his artwork around the world, is preparing to make his gallery debut in the U.K. this month and he has revealed the multimedia exhibition will be themed around Alfred Hitchcock's famous 1960 thriller. Franco has ...
  • James Franco recreates 'Psycho' for London show - WTVQ (06/Jun/2013)
    The Spider-Man star, who now shows his artwork around the world, is preparing to make his gallery debut in the U.K. this month and he has revealed the multimedia exhibition will be themed around Alfred Hitchcock's famous 1960 thriller. Franco has ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection (Blu-ray) - High-Def Digest (06/Jun/2013)
    It's finally happened. Some of the most famous movies of all time, created by one of the most prolific and creative directors in cinematic history, have finally come to Blu-ray. The 'Alfred Hitchcock: Masterpiece Collection' offers up 15 of Hitchcock's most revered ...
  • James Franco Recreates Hitchcock's 'Psycho' For London Exhibition - Starpulse.com (06/Jun/2013)
    The actor-turned-artist, who now shows his artwork around the world, is preparing to make his gallery debut in Britain. this month and he has revealed the multimedia exhibition will be themed around Alfred Hitchcock's famous 1960 thriller. Franco has ...
  • Slight Hitch after birds tern on the island twitchers - Express.co.uk (06/Jun/2013)
    Slight Hitch after birds tern on the island twitchers. PEOPLE are being forced to scramble for cover from squawking, claw-baring airborne attacks in scenes reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror film The Birds. By: Giles Sheldrick. Published: Fri, June 7 ...
  • A Haunting Silence That Delights - Noe Valley Voice (06/Jun/2013)
    Nine of Alfred Hitchcock's silent movies will play June 14 to 16 at the Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St., starting a national tour that includes stops in New York and Los Angeles. “The Hitchcock 9” have been newly restored by the British Film Institute, which is ...
  • Details on all 23 classic films - Pensacola News Journal (06/Jun/2013)
    “Dial M for Murder” (1954): Starring Ray Milland and Grace Kelly, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock's great mystery, based on the stage play by Frederick Knott, follows a plot by a former tennis player (Milland) to have his adulterous wife (Kelly) murdered.
  • Hitchcock's rear window revived - The International News Magazine (07/Jun/2013)
    Sydney Film Festival celebrates its 60th year exhibiting Rear Window Loop by award winning artist in tribute to Alfred Hitchcock last night. Hitchcock's, Rear Window, ingeniously played on his audiences love for cinema and its link to voyeurism by producing a ...
  • Transportation museum's film screening moved indoors tonight - Tuscaloosa News (07/Jun/2013)
    Transportation museum's film screening moved indoors tonight. Weather moves 'North by Northwest' to River Market. Tonight's showing of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller “North by Northwest” will move indoors to the River Market due to rainy conditions.
  • Transportation museum's film screening moved indoors tonight - Tuscaloosa News (07/Jun/2013)
    Tonight's showing of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller “North by Northwest” will move indoors to the River Market due to rainy conditions. It was originally planned as an event outside the Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum, atop what used to be ...
  • Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" - Watershed post (09/Jun/2013)
    A deceptively simple tale of an office embezzlement that unravels unexpectedly. Marion Crane steals $40,000 from her office but finds actually spending it is a lot more complicated. She leaves town and drives all night until she comes to The Bates Motel, run ...
  • Helen Mirren China film fest bound - Irish Independent (10/Jun/2013)
    Dame Helen, who played Alfred Hitchcock's wife Alma Reville opposite Anthony Hopkins in the Sacha Gervasi film Hitchcock, will meet the audience at a screening of the film on June 19. The film follows the couple during the time that Hitchcock was making ...
  • James Franco Recreates Psycho Scenes For Art Installation - We Got This Covered (10/Jun/2013)
    The installation is not quite an homage to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho, but rather an investigation of the questions and concerns that movie inspires. Franco created the art installation with Scottish video artist Douglas Gordon. The installation is a ...
  • Helen Mirren China film fest bound - Belfast Telegraph (10/Jun/2013)
    Dame Helen, who played Alfred Hitchcock's wife Alma Reville opposite Anthony Hopkins in the Sacha Gervasi film Hitchcock, will meet the audience at a screening of the film on June 19. The film follows the couple during the time that Hitchcock was making ...
  • Early Hitchcock Film Set for DVD Release - About - News & Issues (10/Jun/2013)
    An early film by Alfred Hitchcock previously believed to have been lost will soon be available to the public on DVD. Resurrected by the National Film Preservation Foundation, the first three reels of Hithcock's earliest surviving feature, The White Shadow ...
  • Silent Film Festival Revives 'Forgotten' Hitchcock Films - SFStation.com (10/Jun/2013)
    While legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock is almost universally known as the master of suspense in classic cinema, his early work in England during the silent film era has not be as visible on the radar of the general public. silent-film-festival. The San ...
  • Rare Alfred Hitchcock Films Debut in San Francisco - Huffington Post (11/Jun/2013)
    Today, when we think of Alfred Hitchcock, the films that come to mind are his taut thrillers and stories of suspense from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. There is Rebecca (1940), Suspicion (1941), Spellbound (1945), Rope (1948), Dial M for Murder (1954), Rear ...
  • The Hitchcock 9 - East Bay Express (11/Jun/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock fanatics, get ready for a treat. A fully restored collection of the very first films by the Master of Suspense is coming to the Bay Area. The Hitchcock 9, a series of the earliest surviving Hitchcock features, is a project of the British Film Institute, ...
  • The Academy and Cinefamily present a night of Hitchcock rarities - Los Angeles Times (12/Jun/2013)
    Think of it as an evening of Alfred Hitchcock's "B-Sides." Included in the evening are a 35mm screening of "Bon Voyage," the 1944 French-language propaganda short Hitch made for the British Ministry of Information; test footage for an unmade 1960s Mod ...
  • The Academy and Cinefamily present a night of Hitchcock rarities - Los Angeles Times (12/Jun/2013)
    Think of it as an evening of Alfred Hitchcock's "B-Sides." Included in the evening are a 35mm screening of "Bon Voyage," the 1944 French-language propaganda short Hitch made for the British Ministry of Information; test footage for an unmade 1960s Mod ...
  • Hitchcock classics join line-up - New Zealand Herald (12/Jun/2013)
    The New Zealand International Film Festival has announced more additions to its 2013 programme including screenings of a 3D digital version of an Alfred Hitchcock film and its list of international guests coming to the Auckland and Wellington events next ...
  • Everything You Need to Know About Hitchcock Month in Los Angeles - LA Weekly (12/Jun/2013)
    It's tempting to think we're in the midst of an Alfred Hitchcock resurgence. Last year, for the first time in half a century, a worldwide poll in Sight & Sound magazine chose Vertigo (1958) over Citizen Kane (1941) as the greatest film of all time; two biopics ...
  • Hitchcock classics join line-up - New Zealand Herald (12/Jun/2013)
    The New Zealand International Film Festival has announced more additions to its 2013 programme including screenings of a 3D digital version of an Alfred Hitchcock film and its list of international guests coming to the Auckland and Wellington events next ...
  • Cincinnati Shakespeare to Stage THE 39 STEPS, 7/19-8/11 - Broadway World (12/Jun/2013)
    Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Cincinnati's stage for the classics, is thrilled to present "The 39 Steps" adapted by Patrick Barlow, from the novel by John Buchan, from the movie of Alfred Hitchcock, playing July 19- August 11, 2013. This production is ...
  • Hitchcock parody opens at Firehouse tonight - The Daily News of Newburyport (13/Jun/2013)
    Opening at the Firehouse Center for the Arts tonight, the play is a fast-paced murder mystery adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock. Playwrights Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon turned the period piece into a ...
  • Iowa: Angry Blackbirds Attack Pedestrians! - WTVY, Dothan (13/Jun/2013)
    It was a scene straight out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie: birds attacking people in downtown Davenport, Iowa. Officer Robert Bytnar of the Davenport Police said, "Have you ever gone on a call like this before - Nope, can't say I have." Police were called out to ...
  • The Contenders: Vera Farmiga cozies up to 'Bates Motel' - Los Angeles Times (13/Jun/2013)
    Vera Farmiga remembers vividly how she came to see Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" for the first time. Had she known she would someday play Norman Bates' mother in A&E's prequel series "Bates Motel," she might have paid the picture closer attention. At the ...
  • Win The Oscar-Nominated Hitchcock On Blu-ray! - Big Gay Picture Show (13/Jun/2013)
    Hitchcock explores the true love story between one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock, and his wife and partner Alma Reville as they struggle to make the seminal movie Psycho. Although at the top of his game Alfred soon ...
  • Win: Hitchcock Blu-Ray's - This Is Fake DIY (13/Jun/2013)
    Hitchcock explores the true love story between one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins), and his wife and partner Alma Reville (Helen Mirren), as they struggle to make the seminal movie Psycho. Directed by ...
  • Craft: Hitch-hiking through a memorable career - Bloomington Pantagraph (blog) (13/Jun/2013)
    Editor's note: Dan Craft, who has the week off, recently was bowled over by the stunning Blu-ray edition of Alfred Hitchcock's “Psycho,” which premiered 53 years ago this very weekend (June 16, 1960). To celebrate, he dug deep into the GO! archives and ...
  • Hitchcock's Story in Pictures for LIFE Magazine - Who2 (blog) (13/Jun/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock "directs" this series of photos in 1942, telling the wartime story, "Have You Heard," a bit of Allied propaganda whose message is "loose lips sink ships." What the original LIFE magazine spread looked like. As part of LIFE magazine's archive of ...
  • 9 Hitchcock silent films at the Castro - HispanicBusiness.com (13/Jun/2013)
    June 12--The first shot of what many consider the first "real" Alfred Hitchcock film is stunning -- a young woman, her pretty face contorted with fear as she becomes the victim of a Jack the Ripper-ish mass killer; her hair bathed in an angelic light. Hitchcock ...
  • Bringing the 'Hitchcock 9′ Back to Life - Wall Street Journal (blog) (13/Jun/2013)
    In 2010, the British Film Institute (BFI) launched an ambitious plan to save the “Hitchcock 9.” Representing nine of the iconic British director Alfred Hitchcock's earliest surviving works, the scattered and damaged films were researched, pieced together, properly ...
  • 10 best thriller films of all time, chosen by Robbie Collin - Telegraph.co.uk (13/Jun/2013)
    James Stewart's convalescing photographer watches enthralled as a murder-mystery plays out in the apartments across the courtyard in Alfred Hitchcock's cinematic buffet of suspense. Hitchcock recasts the thriller as pure voyeurism and his audience as rapt ...
  • Popular this week - Manchester Evening News (14/Jun/2013)
    Adapted for the screen by John J McLaughlin from the book Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho by Stephen Rebello, Sacha Gervasi's biopic is a handsomely crafted portrait of tortured genius, distinguished by scintillating performances.
  • Top What's On - Birmingham Mail (14/Jun/2013)
    Adapted for the screen by John J McLaughlin from the book Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho by Stephen Rebello, Sacha Gervasi's biopic is a handsomely crafted portrait of tortured genius, distinguished by scintillating performances.
  • A daily bulletin of the best North Wales news and sport - Daily Post North Wales (14/Jun/2013)
    Adapted for the screen by John J McLaughlin from the book Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho by Stephen Rebello, Sacha Gervasi's biopic is a handsomely crafted portrait of tortured genius, distinguished by scintillating performances.
  • Disappointing sequel HITCHCOCK (12) FILM-MAKER Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony ... - HispanicBusiness.com (press release) (14/Jun/2013)
    "I think it's a huge mistake," she opines. "You shouldn't wait until halfway through... Kill her off after 30 minutes!" When principal photography eventually begins, Hitchcock nurtures an obsession with his blonde leading lady, Janet Leigh (Scarlett Johansson).
  • Dame Helen Mirren reminisces about first seeing Psycho for the home ... - The Fan Carpet (14/Jun/2013)
    In Hitchcock she works for the first time with fellow British screen legend Sir Anthony Hopkins, who plays Sir Alfred Hitchcock. She is Alma Reville – Hitchcock's wife and, it turns out, crucial collaborator on his classic works, including the seminal shocker ...
  • Vermont Stage breaks down Hitchcock's 'The 39 Steps' - BurlingtonFreePress.com (14/Jun/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock made it into a film in 1935 – one of his earliest, and one of his best – and eight years ago it became a wild-and-crazy stage play. Vermont Stage on Tuesday night turned the comic spy story into something else again: a trisected production ...
  • Vermont Stage breaks down Hitchcock's 'The 39 Steps' - BurlingtonFreePress.com (14/Jun/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock made it into a film in 1935 – one of his earliest, and one of his best – and eight years ago it became a wild-and-crazy stage play. Vermont Stage on Tuesday night turned the comic spy story into something else again: a trisected production ...
  • Hitchcock – DVD review - Financial Times (14/Jun/2013)
    “A nice, clean, nasty little piece of work – that's what I'm looking for,” says Alfred Hitchcock, creatively becalmed and looking for a new challenge at the start of Sacha Gervasi's masterly biopic. He finds it in Robert Bloch's novel Psycho, but we must be careful ...
  • DVDs - HispanicBusiness.com (14/Jun/2013)
    Hitchcock (12) FILM-MAKER Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and his screenwriter wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) risk everything to self-finance a nice, clean, nasty little piece of work called Psycho. Studios bosses balk at distributing the film and the ...
  • Bollywood Sequel to 'Hitchcock' Disappoints - HispanicBusiness.com (14/Jun/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) fails to deliver laughs and his screenwriter wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) risk everything to self-finance "a nice, clean, nasty little piece of work" called Psycho. Director: Sangeeth Sivan. Starring: Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, ...
  • Woman's close encounter with the killer hiding in the bush - Sydney Morning Herald (14/Jun/2013)
    A 28-day nightmare that Alfred Hitchcock would applaud. At a remote health retreat deep in a mid-north coast mountain range, Malcolm Naden was continuing his four-year reign of terror. Naden, a double murderer on the run, was hungry and disturbed.
  • Follow the Psycho path - This is Plymouth (14/Jun/2013)
    Film-maker Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and his screenwriter wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) risk everything to self-finance "a nice, clean, nasty little piece of work" called Psycho. Studios bosses baulk at distributing the film and the universally-feared ...
  • Motoring: Kia reaches for the top - Kelowna Capital News (15/Jun/2013)
    Kia-Cadenza-2014-main.jpage Jim Robinson/contributor Striking a pose in front of the house that was the setting for Alfred Hitchcock's landmark thriller, The Birds, the 2014 Cadenza is Kia's first foray into the full-size near luxury sedan market. Contributed.
  • Vermont Stage breaks down Hitchcock's 'The 39 Steps' - BurlingtonFreePress.com (15/Jun/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock made it into a film in 1935 – one of his earliest, and one of his best – and eight years ago it became a wild-and-crazy stage play. Vermont Stage on Tuesday night turned the comic spy story into something else again: a trisected production ...
  • DVD and Blu-ray releases - HispanicBusiness.com (15/Jun/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. Hitchcock focuses on the fractious relationship between the film- maker (Anthony ...
  • This Weekend in San Francisco: The Hitchcock 9 - The Women's International Perspective (16/Jun/2013)
    I plan to spend this weekend at the historic Castro Theatre as the San Francisco Silent Film Festival has a special weekend program of nine Alfred Hitchcock silent films. This is a rare opportunity to see these restored silent films on the big screen! Each film will ...
  • Psycho Sequels To Get A Blu-Ray Release - Filmoria (16/Jun/2013)
    The two sequels to Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1960 chiller Psycho are coming to blu-ray this year in the shape of some brand new Collector's Editions. If you watched Carlton Cuse's recent A&E hit series Bates Motel, then (if you didn't know already) you will no ...
  • Revisit Alfred Hitchcock's classic films in screenings around LA - Los Angeles Times (17/Jun/2013)
    It may be the summer of such blockbuster spectacles as "Man of Steel," "The Lone Ranger" and "World War Z," but it's also the summer of movies by a real-life legend: Alfred Hitchcock. His films are screening at several venues around L.A. in the coming weeks ...
  • Revisit Alfred Hitchcock's classic films in screenings around L.A. - HispanicBusiness.com (17/Jun/2013)
    It may be the summer of such blockbuster spectacles as "Man of Steel," "The Lone Ranger" and "World War Z," but it's also the summer of movies by a real-life legend: Alfred Hitchcock. His films are screening at several venues around L.A. in the coming weeks ...
  • The Master of Suspense gets a new Restoration - LA Magazine (blog) (17/Jun/2013)
    It's fun trying to look for Alfred Hitchcock in his own films. During the title sequence in North By Northwest he misses the bus and in The Birds he breezes out of a pet shop with his two dogs as Tippi Hedren enters. One of his earliest cameos was in an extended ...
  • Review: Step into Hope Summer Repertory Theatre's magical Hitchcock farce - The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com (17/Jun/2013)
    The play brings to the stage the Alfred Hitchcock movie and does it with an abundance of stage magic and a tongue firmly implanted in the cheek of the adapter. In his hands and the adept hands of the cast and crew at The Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, ...
  • Academy and LA Film Fest team up for the 'Iconic Moment' - Los Angeles Times (18/Jun/2013)
    The evening culminates at Oscars Outdoors with Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 classic “Vertigo,” starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak and featuring the evocative costumes designed by the legendary Edith Head. “There are iconic moments in films one remembers ...
  • National Tour for 'Hitchcock 9' Begins Today - About - News & Issues (18/Jun/2013)
    The so-called 'Hitchcock 9' - a series of little-seen silent films made in the early part of Alfred Hitchcock's brilliant career - will make their debut today at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Featuring such titles as Downhill (1927), Champagne (1928), The ...
  • Silent suspense - Global Times (19/Jun/2013)
    In an interview that Alfred Hitchcock gave to French New Wave director François Truffaut in 1966, Hitchcock told Truffaut a story: there are two Scottish men on a train. One man asks the other: "What do you think is in that package up there on the baggage rack ...
  • DVD REVIEW: Hitchcock - Salisbury Journal (19/Jun/2013)
    FILM-MAKER Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and his screenwriter wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) risk everything to selffinance “a nice, clean, nasty little piece of work” called Psycho. Studios bosses baulk at distributing the film and the universally feared ...
  • The Miracle of Hitchcock's 'Frenzy' (1972) - Big Hollywood (19/Jun/2013)
    Of all the memorable images that came out of director Alfred Hitchcock's legendary fifty-year career, one that stays with me is The Master's cameo in his penultimate film, 1972's "Frenzy." As he always did, Hitchcock made sure the cameo came early. By this ...
  • Helen Mirren praises Hitchcock - ITN (19/Jun/2013)
    In the film, which came out in the U.S. and elsewhere late last year, Mirren stars opposite Anthony Hopkins as legendary director Alfred Hitchcock's devoted wife Alma Reville. Hitchcock will show several times during the festival in the Chinese financial capital, ...
  • Silent Hitchcock Films Come to the Harvey Theater in Brooklyn - New York Times (19/Jun/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock may be the most famous film director who ever lived — a favorite of both the pleasure-loving public and theory-addled academics; the subject at once of bizarre biographical fantasies (now available in both book and movie form) as well as of ...
  • Step Into Hope's Magical Hitchcock Farce - pride source.com (19/Jun/2013)
    The play brings to the stage the Alfred Hitchcock movie and does it with an abundance of stage magic and a tongue firmly implanted in the cheek of the adapter. In his hands and the adept hands of the cast and crew at The Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, ...
  • Helen Mirren Learns Local Slang in Shanghai - People's Daily Online (19/Jun/2013)
    She was there to promote a screening of the biopic film "Hitchcock", in which she plays Alfred Hitchcock's wife, Alma Reville. Mirren's director husband, Taylor Hackford, is also a guest at the festival. Mirren starred in her husband's 2010 drama film, "Love ...
  • Anthony Hopkins and me are a match made in heaven: Mirren - Business Standard (20/Jun/2013)
    The 67-year-old starred alongside the 75-year-old actor in 'Hitchcock' - a biographical film about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' - and will be seen on screen together again in upcoming action sequel 'RED 2'. Mirren says Hopkins is an inspiration on ...
  • Dame Helen rates Sir Anthony - TVNZ (20/Jun/2013)
    The 67-year-old actress starred alongside the 75-year-old actor in 'Hitchcock' - a biographical film about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' - and will be seen on screen together again in upcoming action sequel 'RED 2', which is about retired secret ...
  • Anthony Hopkins and me are a match made in heaven: Helen Mirren - Zee News (20/Jun/2013)
    The 67-year-old starred alongside the 75-year-old actor in `Hitchcock` - a biographical film about the making of Alfred Hitchcock`s `Psycho` - and will be seen on screen together again in upcoming action sequel `RED 2`. Mirren says Hopkins is an inspiration ...
  • Win Hitchcock Blu-Ray - FemaleFirst.co.uk (20/Jun/2013)
    Hitchcock explores the true love story between one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock, and his wife and partner Alma Reville as they struggle to make the seminal movie Psycho. Although at the top of his game Alfred soon ...
  • Mirren and Hopkins are a 'match made in heaven' - Divine.ca (20/Jun/2013)
    The 67-year-old actress starred alongside the 75-year-old actor in 'Hitchcock' - a biographical film about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' - and will be seen on screen together again in upcoming action sequel 'RED 2', which is about retired secret ...
  • World War Z – review - The Guardian (20/Jun/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock gave us mind-blowing finales at Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty. Brad Pitt gives us his own climax in a chemical laboratory just outside Cardiff. On a slightly overcast day. He's the producer-star of this bloated and boring zombie ...
  • Meet Hitchcock's More Expressive, Quieter Side Review - JustPressPlay (20/Jun/2013)
    Many would prefer to keep Alfred Hitchcock as he has been, a blubbering megalomaniac or sly choreographer of dramatic pathos - either way a presence in cinema history that is so dominant, he's both impossible to know completely and impossible to ignore.
  • Helen Mirren learns local slang in Shanghai - China.org.cn (20/Jun/2013)
    Oscar-winning British actress Helen Mirren has been exploring local slang while attending the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival in Shanghai. She was there to promote a screening of the biopic film "Hitchcock", in which she plays Alfred Hitchcock's ...
  • Mirren, Hopkins a 'match made in heaven' - Sky News Australia (20/Jun/2013)
    The 67-year-old actress starred alongside the 75-year-old actor in 'Hitchcock' - a biographical film about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' - and will be seen on screen together again in upcoming action sequel 'RED 2'. The new film is about retired ...
  • World War Z – review - Here Is The City (20/Jun/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock gave us mind-blowing finales at Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty. Brad Pitt gives us his own climax in a chemical laboratory just outside Cardiff. On a slightly overcast day. He's the producer-star of this bloated and boring zombie ...
  • 'There were paparazzi hiding under my bed!': Vertigo star Kim Novak - The Independent (21/Jun/2013)
    Tippi Hedren has talked about Alfred Hitchcock's predatory behaviour toward his actresses. Novak dismisses such stories. The Hitch she describes was shy and reticent, “a complete gentleman,” who treated her with all due decorum, even if he did make her ...
  • Change text size for the story - Standard Freeholder (21/Jun/2013)
    The final fifteen years of Alfred Hitchcock's directorial career can be seen in a few different ways. Some say it is a disappointment, as the man was unable to make two of his most interesting projects: Kaleidoscope would have followed a serial killer and ...
  • Hitchcock's Dial M For Murder getting a 3D rerelease in the UK - Flickering Myth (blog) (22/Jun/2013)
    It seems we're never far from a 3D re-release these days as the Hollywood studios look to cash in with converted versions of past classics, but next month UK fans will get to see Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 thriller Dial M For Murder as it was originally intended ...
  • Hitchcock homage takes off where The Birds drama ended on screen - Express & Echo (22/Jun/2013)
    There can be few who haven't seen Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1963 film The Birds, based on a novella by Cornish writer Daphne du Maurier. Wealthy San Francisco socialite Melanie Daniel follows Mitch Brenner to a small northern California town with the aim ...
  • EMMYS Q&A: Vera Farmiga - Deadline.com (22/Jun/2013)
    Vera Farmiga admits she was skeptical when she first heard about Bates Motel, the series that serves as a modern-day prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. But playing a character who was merely an idea in the original source material has proven to be the ...
  • Vera Farmiga talks 'Bates Motel' season 2, what's aheard for Norma Bates - The Global Dispatch (23/Jun/2013)
    Vera Farmiga plays Norma Bates, the Mother of the famed serial killer in the TV series, Bates Motel, a prequel to the classic Alfred Hitchcock film. Talking with Deadline about her different projects, she began by reflecting on what got her on board with the role.
  • Win Hitchcock on Blu-ray - Entertainment Focus (23/Jun/2013)
    Hitchcock explores the true love story between one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins), and his wife and partner Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) as they struggle to make the seminal movie Psycho. Although at ...
  • CD review: DRESSED TO KILL soundtrack - Assignment X (23/Jun/2013)
    Filmmaker Brian De Palma couldn't have asked for a better composer to assist in his stylish Alfred Hitchcock dress-ups for SISTERS and OBSESSION than the composer the Master of Suspense did wrong with TORN CURTAIN. After Bernard Herrmann's ...
  • Hitchcock biopic comes to Selby cinema - Selby Times (24/Jun/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock was well known for his distinctive directing style and use of suspense and voyeurism as cinematic devices and the 2012 biopic, Hitchcock examines the man behind the camera as it takes a look at Hitchcock's relationship with his wife Alma ...
  • Hitchcock biopic comes to Selby cinema - Goole Today (24/Jun/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock was well known for his distinctive directing style and use of suspense and voyeurism as cinematic devices and the 2012 biopic, Hitchcock examines the man behind the camera as it takes a look at Hitchcock's relationship with his wife Alma ...
  • Mel Brooks, Alfred Hitchcock, and even Elvis Presley - About - News & Issues (24/Jun/2013)
    This July will see several classic movies featuring some big names released onto the popular Blu-ray format. Making the transfer this month are Mel Brooks' directorial debut; the only comedy Alfred Hitchcock made in the U.S.; an early Technicolor ...
  • Each Cut Was Like a Stab With a Knife - RopeofSilicon.com (blog) (24/Jun/2013)
    Vimeo user Brian Carroll uploaded this piece he edited together using interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Janet Leigh discussing the shower scene in Psycho and it's a fantastic look at an iconic "slice" of cinematic history I believe you are sure to enjoy.
  • Silent Hitchcock' - Wall Street Journal (25/Jun/2013)
    The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema," Alfred Hitchcock once remarked to François Truffaut. In Hitchcock's early thrillers, comedies and dramas, he mastered visual storytelling and cinematic technique. Between 1925 and 1929, he explored ...
  • "The Hitchcock 9" Reveals a Young Master - Village Voice (25/Jun/2013)
    BAMcinématek's presentation of nine fully restored silent films by Alfred Hitchcock—a touring series that goes by the suitably dangerous-sounding name "The Hitchcock 9"—is a real movie event, for more reasons than one. For most filmgoers, seeing any ...
  • Five reasons to get excited about the film festival - New Zealand Herald (25/Jun/2013)
    Don't miss Alfred Hitchcock's 'North By Northwest' at this year's International Film Festival. It's that time of the year again when film lovers suddenly become inundated with choice - the International Film Festival is upon us, and it's looking like a doozy.
  • Five reasons to get excited about the film festival - New Zealand Herald (25/Jun/2013)
    Movie blogger Dominic Corry says there's five good reasons to celebrate this year's International Film Festival. Don't miss Alfred Hitchcock's 'North By Northwest' at this year's International Film Festival. It's that time of the year again when film lovers suddenly ...
  • SHOWBIZ: Solve the murder at Bates Motel - New Straits Times (25/Jun/2013)
    THROUGH its pay TV service, HyppTV, and Universal Channel, Telekom Malaysia Berhad jolted fans with an Alfred Hitchcock favourite, Psycho, at its recent Bates Motel themed party. The party, held in conjunction with Bates Motel (airs every Wednesday at ...
  • Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' launches Red Mill summer screenings - New Jersey Hills (26/Jun/2013)
    The fun gets underway at 8:30 p.m. with Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 classic “Vertigo” tomorrow, Friday, June 28. Pink Floyd's 1982 “The Wall” will be the second screening, also at 8:30 p.m., on Friday, July 26. The program ends with the 1971 version of “Willy ...
  • Agoura Hills park going 'Psycho' on us - Agoura Hills Acorn (26/Jun/2013)
    The Agoura Hills Cultural Arts Council will present a special outdoor screening of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic thriller “Psycho” at 7 p.m. Sat., July 13 at the Adobe Reyes Historical Site, 5464 Reyes Adobe Road, Agoura Hills. The movie will start at dusk.
  • Silent Hitchcock' - Wall Street Journal (27/Jun/2013)
    The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema,” Alfred Hitchcock once remarked to François Truffaut. In Hitchcock's early thrillers, comedies and dramas, he mastered visual storytelling and cinematic technique. Between 1925 and 1929, he explored ...
  • Feathered Fiends - The Weekly Standard (27/Jun/2013)
    At the height of his career, in 1963, Alfred Hitchcock spoke of playing the audience like an organ: “I'm using their natural instincts to help them enjoy fear,” he said to an interviewer, adding, “I know exactly when to stop, to relieve them at the right moment, ...
  • Exploring a world of fear after The Birds - This is Bath (28/Jun/2013)
    There can be few who haven't seen Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1963 film The Birds, based on a novella by Cornish writer Daphne du Maurier. Wealthy San Francisco socialite Melanie Daniel follows Mitch Brenner to a small northern California town with the aim ...
  • Shh...It's Hitchcock - Indian Express (29/Jun/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock may be the most famous film director who ever lived—a favourite of both the pleasure-loving public and theory-addled academics; the subject at once of biographical fantasies as well as of some of the most significant critical thinking of the last ...
  • Madras Press publishes new series of books - Boston Globe (29/Jun/2013)
    Madras Press's new series of books boasts an embarrassment of riches: Alfred Hitchcock, David Foster Wallace, and Lydia Davis, a master of the very, very short story. The books are 5-by-5-inch squares, a shape founder Sumanth Prabhaker favors because it ...
  • Rescued, Hitchcock's Silent Films Flicker Anew - OPB News (29/Jun/2013)
    The single biggest restoration project in the history of the British Film Institute is now touring the United States. The Hitchcock 9 are the surviving silent films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and they're touring the U.S. this summer. Hitchcock is best known for his ...
  • Rescued, Hitchcock's Silent Films Flicker Anew - KTTZ (29/Jun/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock's early silent films have resurfaced in what's being called the single biggest restoration project in the history of the British Film Institute, and now "The Hitchcock 9" are touring the U.S. this summer. Hitchcock is best known for his Hollywood ...
  • Rescued, Hitchcock's Silent Films Flicker Anew - Public Radio Tulsa (29/Jun/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock's early silent films have resurfaced in what's being called the single biggest restoration project in the history of the British Film Institute, and now "The Hitchcock 9" are touring the U.S. this summer. Hitchcock is best known for his Hollywood ...
  • Serial Killers and how they've taken over Sunday television - Buffalo News (29/Jun/2013)
    Ed Gein, the pride of Wisconsin, inspired no less than three of the most memorable and influential movies ever made: Alfred Hitchcock's immortal “Psycho”; Tobe Hooper's not-exactly-immortal “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (see all those remakes and sequels); ...
  • Madras Press publishes new series of books - Boston.com (29/Jun/2013)
    Madras Press's new series of books boasts an embarrassment of riches: Alfred Hitchcock, David Foster Wallace, and Lydia Davis, a master of the very, very short story. The books are 5-by-5-inch squares, a shape founder Sumanth Prabhaker favors because it ...
  • Rescued, Hitchcock's Silent Films Flicker Anew - North Country Public Radio (29/Jun/2013)
    Jun 29, 2013 (All Things Considered) — Alfred Hitchcock is best known for suspense films like Psycho and Vertigo, but the British director actually began his filmmaking career during the silent era. The Hitchcock 9 is a collection of his silent films, and the only ...
  • Galleries: Cellphone photos at Moore College - Philly.com (30/Jun/2013)
    Picture Alfred Hitchcock's sinister 1943 Shadow of a Doubt and Walker Evans' portraits of New York subway riders taken between 1938 and 1941 (he kept a camera in his coat and caught his subjects sitting across the aisle off-guard, but looking suspiciously ...
  • Cellphone photos at Moore College - Philly.com (30/Jun/2013)
    Picture Alfred Hitchcock's sinister 1943 Shadow of a Doubt and Walker Evans' portraits of New York subway riders taken between 1938 and 1941 (he kept a camera in his coat and caught his subjects sitting across the aisle off-guard, but looking suspiciously ...
  • Galleries: Cellphone photos at Moore College - Philly.com (30/Jun/2013)
    Picture Alfred Hitchcock's sinister 1943 Shadow of a Doubt and Walker Evans' portraits of New York subway riders taken between 1938 and 1941 (he kept a camera in his coat and caught his subjects sitting across the aisle off-guard, but looking suspiciously ...
  • Rescued, Hitchcock's Silent Films Flicker Anew - Northeast Indiana Public Radio (30/Jun/2013)
    Alfred Hitchcock's early silent films have resurfaced in what's being called the single biggest restoration project in the history of the British Film Institute, and now "The Hitchcock 9" are touring the U.S. this summer. Hitchcock is best known for his Hollywood ...
  • Competition: Win a copy of Hitchcock on blu ray! - New Zealand Herald (30/Jun/2013)
    Hitchcock is out now and to celebrate nzherald.co.nz has five copies of the movie on blu ray to give away! Hitchcock reveals the creatively explosive romance between the extraordinary film icon, Alfred Hitchcock with his wife and collaborator, Alma Reville.
  • Competition: Win a copy of Hitchcock on blu ray! - New Zealand Herald (30/Jun/2013)
    Hitchcock is out now and to celebrate nzherald.co.nz has five copies of the movie on blu ray to give away! Hitchcock reveals the creatively explosive romance between the extraordinary film icon, Alfred Hitchcock with his wife and collaborator, Alma Reville.
  • Alfred Hitchcock's "Blackmail" (Photo Credit:BAMcinématek/BFI) - WNYC (30/Jun/2013)
    Florence Almozini, Program Director for BAMcinématek, and Rodney Sauer of the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, talk about Alfred Hitchcock's nine earliest surviving works, all newly restored by theBritish Film Institute. These silent films are screened with ...
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