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Halloween might be over, but that doesn't mean the scares have to stop. We wouldn't go so far as to call Vertigo a "horror movie," but Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock ratchets the tension to such unbearable levels that parts of it are more terrifying than anything you'd see in whatever torture porn is defiling theaters in a given week.

Well now. The community theater season has definitely, undeniably begun. The Hampton Theatre Company, celebrating its 25th year, has mounted an impressive and absorbing production of William Inge's 1953 capturing of Midwestern angst, "Picnic." It was a good choice.

When the group now known as the Hampton Theatre Company chose their first play for production in 1984, founders Jimmy Ewing, his mother, June Ewing, and Jim Irving decided to go with a classic: "The Diary of Anne Frank." Adapted by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich from Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl," the show had won the Tony Award for ...

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This week, A. O. Scott looks at "Vertigo," Alfred Hitchcock 's 1958 classic with James Stewart and Kim Novak .

Mystery and intrigue were the topics of discussion when the State Theatre presented a screening of Vertigo Sunday, the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film starring James Stewart and Kim Novak.

WHEN A MOVIE script calls for a man in a torn shirt to tell a woman, "Beat it, baby, I'm in a pretty bad mood,'' you can generally assume that not only he, but the movie, should be avoided.

Actress Kim Novak and her husband have begun removing large rocks illegally placed along the banks of the Rogue River to control erosion on their ranch in southern Oregon.

Screen legend Kim Novak and her husband, Robert Malloy, have resolved a two-year problem that started when they failed to get federal permits to place large rocks along the Rogue River to prevent erosion on their Eagle Point ranch.

Alfred Hitchcock 's THE 39 STEPS, Broadway's longest running comedy, is pleased to announce the guests for September's "Hitchcock Meets Hilarious" Talkback Tuesday series.

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August 23, 2009, 6:50 AM / Tony Baksa may have selected the perfect play for the first performance of Hamburg Theater Under the Stars: "Picnic." The 1953 play by William Inge, which was made into a 1955 movie starring William Holden and Kim Novak, will be performed at 7 p. m. Sept.

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Made in 1969, this was Francois Truffaut's first big-budget production, shot on the lush Indian Ocean island of Reunion, in the south of France, and in the French Alps.

A radical meditation on man's obsession with illusion, Vertigo reflects back on itself as cinema, and as a sadly ironic view of romantic love in the fifties.

TO tie in with the release of Coco Before Chanel, Quad is screening a short collection of classic films with fashion industry connections.

In New York, it was impossible not to. I saw many movies being made from a distance.

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Even though "Bell, Book and Candle" treats its supernatural elements with whimsy, this romantic comedy takes a surprisingly dark view of the magic arts.

Bay Street Theatre's first production of the summer asks the question, "How much are you willing to change for the one you love?" Bell, Book and Candle, which refers to an archaic method of excommunication, is a lighthearted spin on the phrase's darker original meaning.