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"Ridiculous." "Defies plausibility." "Blissfully divorced by logic." Then there are the contradictory comparisons.
New classic film collection on DVD
Warner Home Entertainment and Turner Movie Classics have teamed up over the past year to release the "TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection." The collection consisted of 60 films in 15 themed groups, such as musicals, horror, romantic comedies and Best Picture Oscar winners.
DVD Report: Knowing a hawk from a handsaw
"NORTH BY NORTHWEST'' Knowing a hawk from a handsaw Cary Grant stands along an utterly exposed stretch of prairie highway, only slowly realizing why a distant crop duster seems to be taking such a curious flight path.
The younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland, Joan Fontaine was a British actress known for her exceptionally poised performances in Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s, including Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca".... The younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland, Joan Fontaine was a British actress known for her exceptionally poised ...
Suspense at the DPAC: Hitchcock film series
No one can film a thriller quite like Alfred Hitchcock. Okay, Michael Jackson might give him a run for his money, but let's face it: Hitchcock is one of the quintessential thriller movie directors.
No 69: Joan Fontaine, 1917- Joan Fontaine was a delicately feminine adornment in movies for nearly 30 years and a fine actress.
'Mississippi Mermaid,' New Wave homage to Hitchcock, plays at Northwest Film Forum
Francois Truffaut's "Mississippi Mermaid," 7 p.m. daily through Thursday at Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., $6-$9 In the spring of 1962, the French New Wave filmmaker Francois Truffaut was preparing to direct the screen adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," the story of a society that burns books and the rebels who secretly memorize ...
Carol Olson: No one can top Cary Grant as a leading man
A FEW WEEKS ago, I was having one of those wonderful nights we all have every so often.
Carol Olson: No one can top Cary Grant as a leading man
A FEW WEEKS ago, I was having one of those wonderful nights we all have every so often.
Cary Grant's first screen partnership with Mae West was in " " [released in the USA on 9 February 1933]. And the Brooklyn Academy of Music has devoted August 3rd - 20th to screening Cary Grant classics.
Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock
It was at the insistence of Carole Lombard that Hitchcock temporarily depart from his famous genre of 'suspense' to direct a romantic-comedy titled 'Mr. & Mrs.
A review: Spider's Web at the Theatre Royal
As the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat about to bring home a VIP at short notice, Clarissa Hailsham-Brown wants everything just so.
What to Watch on TCM this Weekend
I'm actually praying for rain this weekend, because with the lineup on Turner Classic Movies, I'd love an excuse to stay indoors.
Movie Favorites - Pattern Revealed
Action, romance and humor. Tickles your funny bone. Bachelor with sobriety flaws encounters teacher traveling with seven children; daughters of foreign diplomats.
Duration: 1:39:35 CC TVPG Joan Fontaine gives an Oscar-winning performance as wealthy but shy Lina McLaidlaw, a woman who thinks she has found her true love in Johnny Aysgarth , a handsome gambler she meets on a train when he tries to travel first class with a third class ticket.
Culture Warrior: The a Limitsa of Directorial Self-Indulgence
If you watch the trailer for Jim Jarmusch 's new film, The Limits of Control , there's one point where Tilda Swinton - donning a snow-white wig, cowboy hat, and trenchcoat accompanied by a clear plastic umbrella on a sunny day for seemingly no other reason than the wardrobe's photogenic appeal, like Swinton herself - states the following over ...
The film version of Frances Iles' Before the Fact , Alfred Hitchcocka s 'Suspicion' is a sordid look at a wife suspecting her husband of murder.
'Accent on Youth' starring David Hyde Pierce
As Broadway's heavyweight season stampedes madly to today's official close, it would be lovely to be able to adore the breezy arrival of an unpretentious 1934 fluffball called "Accent on Youth." After all, the little-known American comedy about fancy theater folk has a sweet and flashy role for David Hyde Pierce , an actor for whom delightful is ...
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