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Alfred Hitchcock

September 2024

  • FRENZY, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, 1972<br>HBRMH3 FRENZY, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, 1972

    Barbara Leigh-Hunt obituary

    Highly expressive actor of impeccable technique that could encompass high comedy and full-blown tragedy

August 2024

  • Lion around … Tippi Hedren and her pet lion, Neil.

    Golden-age Hollywood stars (and their pet lions) – in pictures

  • (from left) Safeena Ladha, Eugene McCoy, Tom Byrne and  Maddie Rice in The 39 Steps.

    The 39 Steps review – comic homage to Hitchcock thriller goes off the rails

June 2024

  • 1959, NORTH BY NORTHWEST<br>EVA MARIE SAINT &amp; CARY GRANT Character(s): Eve Kendall &amp; Film 'NORTH BY NORTHWEST' (1959) Directed By ALFRED HITCHCOCK 17 July 1959 CT2771 Allstar/MGM (USA 1959) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of MGM and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To MGM is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

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    Happy 100th birthday, Eva Marie Saint! Her best films – ranked

    Born on 4 July, one of the last true stars of Hollywood’s golden age celebrates her centenary next week. We look back at the landmark roles of a 75-year career

March 2024

  • Toned down … an image from the Dalí dream sequence in Hitchcock’s Spellbound.

    ‘Dalí’s were unfilmable’: the astonishing story of Hitchcock’s lost storyboards – found in a bric-a-brac sale

    Five decades ago, a fan picked up a set of the director’s meticulous storyboards for just $50 – including the lost Spellbound dream sequence by Salvador Dalí in which Ingrid Bergman turns into ants

February 2024

  • Joanna Vanderham and Ian McNeic in Double Feature at Hampstead theatre, London.

    Double Feature review – Hitchcock and Hedren meet the Witchfinder General

    John Logan’s play combines the stories behind two films made in the 1960s but each needs more space to truly hit home

November 2023

  • Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie in Eileen, directed by William Oldroyd.

    Ottessa Moshfegh: ‘Everyone asked me why I had written such a disgusting female character’

    Before My Year of Rest and Relaxation, the author published Eileen, a dark noir about another disaffected woman. As it comes to the screen, she looks back on the extreme reaction to her complex heroine

July 2023

  • Alfred Hitchcock with Cigar in 1956

    My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock review – Mark Cousins puts words in Hitch’s mouth

  • My Name is Alfred Hitchcock Press publicity film image supplied by PR

    My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock review – Mark Cousins’ cheeky and insightful study

March 2023

  • But who will play Kim Novak? … James Stewart and Novak in Vertigo, 1958.

    Three ways Robert Downey Jr’s Vertigo might not be Hollywood’s stupidest ever idea

  • James Stewart in Vertigo

    Vertigo: remake of Hitchcock thriller set to star Robert Downey Jr

August 2022

  • Gifted storyteller … Emily Bruni stars in Matt Wilkinson’s Psychodrama

    Psychodrama review – Hitchcock thriller prompts tale of acting and abuse

    Emily Bruni stars as a mid-career actor who thinks she’s landed a dream role in a stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho

May 2022

  • Scream queen … Janet Leigh in the infamous shower scene from Psycho

    Psycho review – well worth getting scared in the shower all over again

    The rereleased, uncut version highlights the calculation and skill that went into making a genre-defining horror classic

March 2022

  • Patrick Walshe McBride and Jessie Hills in Blackmail.

    Blackmail review – play that brought Hitchcock a hit is retooled for today

    Handsomely staged, Mark Ravenhill’s version of Charles Bennett’s 1920s thriller includes pertinent concerns about policing and the abuse of power

February 2022

  • Alfred Hitchcock, John Longden and Anny Ondra in Blackmail, 1929

    Mark Ravenhill on Blackmail: the sensational thriller that shook Hitchcock and me

    Charles Bennett’s melodramatic suspense drama became a hit 1929 film for Hitch. Now it’s back on stage – minus the first act and with a surprising ending

January 2022

  • Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger 1926 with Ivor Novello Photocredit British Film Institute.

    ‘I felt a sickening pain’: how the ‘first true Hitchcock movie’ almost killed its star

    Alfred Hitchcock described his third film, The Lodger, as the true beginning of his directorial career but it would prove a near fatal screen debut for its leading light June Tripp

September 2021

  • Francesca Chiejina, soloist for Berg’s Seven Early Songs with Sinfonia of London Prom conducted by John Wilson at the Royal Albert Hall.

    Sinfonia of London/Wilson/ Chiejina review – a remarkable debut for Vertigo orchestra

    The first live concert for the Sinfonia, which once recorded the Hitchcock soundtrack, was exceptional, featuring the exquisite voice of Francesca Chiejina

June 2021

  • Vertigo

    Vertigo the game: could it delete the horrific history of movie tie-ins?

    A new French project ‘inspired’ by the Hitchcock classic could point the way to video games that riff off a film-maker’s wider aesthetic

May 2021

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    Norman Lloyd obituary

  • FILE PHOTO: Actor Norman Lloyd poses during 50th anniversary screening of musical drama film “The Sound of Music” at the opening night gala of the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles<br>FILE PHOTO: Actor Norman Lloyd poses during the 50th anniversary screening of the musical drama film “The Sound of Music” at the opening night gala of the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 26, 2015. REUTERS/Kevork Djansezian/File Photo

    Actor Norman Lloyd, who worked with Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, dies aged 106

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