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THE MOVIES: Ask the average moviegoer with at least a passing knowledge of film history to name some Hitchcock films, and they're more than likely to call up something from his late Universal period: Rear Window , Vertigo , Psycho , The Birds .

I was looking forward to seeing Ellen Page as Jane Eyre, wondering how she would handle the role of the poor governess from the wrong side of the moors.

In a special screening directly addressed to kids, today, September 26, at the British Film Institute: Jane Eyre by Robert Stevenson With Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine Sat 26 Sep 13:50 NFT2 Bronte's classic novel is given the full Hollywood treatment in this moody, atmospheric production.

Nicholas Ray 's BORN TO BE BAD is prime soap opera, performed by a top cast. It's a tremendously enjoyable piece of entertainment.

You probably know Rachmaninoff's Second Piano concerto, whether or not you think you do.

You probably know Rachmaninoff's Second Piano concerto, whether or not you think you do.

In one of Max Ophulsa s most elegant films, and arguably the most written-about example of female voice-over in classical Hollywood cinema, the eponymous letter is a sublime and ultimately Siren-like call from the beyond.

It was a perfect night for foul play. A cold front hidden by a black-slate cloak of persistent rain was moving stealthily up the Sound to settle over the New England countryside.

Action, romance and humor. Tickles your funny bone. Bachelor with sobriety flaws encounters teacher traveling with seven children; daughters of foreign diplomats.

The rampant female masochism of "Letter from an Unknown Woman" has always mitigated against my full pleasure of Max Ophuls' artistry, and the extraordinary photography of Franz Planer.

A Hitchcock special -- a creamy, thick, sweetish blend of genres, with ingredients from detective stories , Gothic thrillers , and tearjerkers .

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.

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.