Tagged Alfred Hitchcock

“I don’t believe in ghosts” declares Lily James, as her Mrs. de Winter sets off for a new life in Manderley. And yet this is a film undeniably haunted by the looming spectre of Hitchcock’s 1940 Best...

So you're a director, you've made your genre-defining debut picture, and now it's time to convince the viewing public that your film blows the other cinematic dross out of the water. But how do you prove it?...

Much like Scottie's consuming obsession in Vertigo, its hyperactive cousin, The Green Fog, is a labour of love. Directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson use San Francisco-based film and television...

Yesterday marked Martin Scorsese’s 75th birthday, and to mark the great man reaching three-quarters of a century, what better way to celebrate his enduring contribution to cinema than by recalling one of the...

In 2012 two films about Hitchcock were released almost simultaneously, but both were problematic disappointments. Hitchcock, starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren, focused on Hitch during the filming of...

“Aujourd’hui, maman est morte.” As part of the Focus on Poland strand, EIFF is screening Anka Sasnal and Wilhelm Sasnal’s The Sun, The Sun Blinded Me. In one scene, a priest sits down to eat a...

“She did get so irritated with people calling it a romantic novel. Because she always said it was a study in jealousy.” Upon Rebecca’s publication in 1938, Royal Society wünderkind and critic V.S....

A strange phenomenon is upon us this weekend: the release of M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie, Split, which has received surprisingly positive early word-of-mouth. It presents film commentators with a...

Hitchcock/Truffaut is a gentle but revealing documentary, 50 years on from the exhaustive interviews conducted by François Truffaut. Concentrating on re-evaluating Hitchcock’s work and the context...

It's easy to get into the films of Alfred Hitchcock. His mastery of film narrative, coupled with his thematic obsessions, make his films both accessible and sophisticated. His career is also one of the...

Spectacularly prolific French-Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan returns to the scene with his fourth feature (note: he's just turned 25), a brooding, beguiling thriller set amid the Quebecois countryside where...

Love trivia? Love six degrees of Kevin Bacon? Then you’ve come to the right place. Ten Degrees of Trivia combines the two to take you on a journey through the world of loosely connected facts, beginning and...

It’s halfway through the 1960s and Alfred Hitchcock is on the decline. His latest features of Marnie, a critical failure, and Torn Curtain, an ambivalent flop, have seen the grand filmmaker’s name reach...

1. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was the first film to ever show a toilet flush. 2. After Jaws, Spielberg tried to hang around the movie set for Alfred Hitchcock's 1976 film Family Plot in the hope of...