Joan Fontaine News

FROM THIS DAY FORWARD is a lovingly detailed depiction of the struggles of newlyweds in the late '30s and early '40s, with beautiful black and white photography by George Barnes and an exquisitely nuanced performance by Joan Fontaine.

Attention, movie buffs! DreamWorks is going where no studio has gone before. They're remaking Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca.

Berlinale came to fruition thanks to the initiative of American Film Officer Oscar Martay.

The film, like the book, begins intriguingly with one of the best-known opening lines in English fiction: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." The words are spoken by Joan Fontaine, the narrator, whom we first meet as the mousy little companion of a frightful snob of a woman in the South of France.

The greatest mystery movies are those that demonstrate how a good story and good acting can hold an audience in thrall, without the need for big budgets, or computer enhanced special effects.

It's Oscar season, so it's only appropriate that a couple of past Oscar winners are on tap for local film fans this week.

Suspicion is one of those Alfred Hitchcock movies that somehow works despite itself.

Alfred Hitchcock is known for his cool blondes and in these three new Blu-ray releases -- Notorious , Spellbound , and Rebecca -- the master of suspense cast two fair-haired actresses in the starring roles: Ingrid Bergman and Joan Fontaine .

"Rebecca," the musical based on Daphne Du Maurier's classic suspense novel, will not make it to Broadway this season.