José Luis López Vázquez’s phone box nightmare is short and sharp but Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s TV fever dream overplays its hand
Two macabre Spanish TV plays from the 1970s are being released as a dou…
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Handcuffs, dog bites and avian warfare: how personal grudges sullied Alfred Hitchcock’s reputation ⊖⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The director liked to create tension on-set to draw out stronger performances. But have stories about his psychological tricks been inflated in the retelling?
In 1978, shortly after publishing The Art…
5 months ago
Reality winners: the rise and rise of the ‘verbatim’ movie ⊕⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
From Kaouther Ben Hania’s reconstruction of the killing of a five-year-old Gazan girl in The Voice of Hind Rajab to Ira Sachs use of a taped interview in Peter Hujar’s Day, real-life dialogue is bein…
6 months ago
Hitchcock’s The Lodger has been turned into a vertical microdrama. What’s next – Psycho on Snapchat? ⊖
A silent-era classic has been reframed for the vertical scroll of phone screens. Is this innovation, sacrilege, or just another way to repackage cinema history?
‘Some films are slices of life, mine ar…
8 months ago
‘Two more broomsticks please!’ Was Robin Blades the greatest percussionist ever? ⊕⊕
He played china mugs, bells, rattles and car horns for everyone from Alfred Hitchcock to Benjamin Britten – and once got Laurence Olivier to bang a broomstick. We go behind the scenes of a Radio 3 ce…
10 months ago
‘I held on to what’s important’: Kim Novak on Hitchcock, Trump and her Venice lifetime achievement award ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
One of the stars of Hollywood’s golden era, 92-year-old says prize as much about her refusal to be controlled as her on-screen performances
She was the No 1 box office star in the late 50s, but for de…
Megadoc review – absorbing account of an impressive and indomitable Francis Ford Coppola at work ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Venice film festival
Mike Figgis’s valuable documentary shows how Coppola worked with actors on his $120m passion project Megalopolis
When Francis Ford Coppola finally started work on his retrofuturist…
14 months ago
Chanel takes a cruise around Lake Como with glamour fit for a grand hotel ○
Show dips into lucrative holiday market with butter-yellow, lilac and gold lamé outfits reflecting beauty of the backdrop
Chanel has a fresh-faced, avant garde new designer but it still stands for cla…
17 months ago
It's like The Birds! Village is invaded by tens of thousands of starlings as locals are forced to carry umbrellas to protect themselves from droppings ○
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Villagers in Rearsby, Leicestershire, are facing a 'nightmare' after being bombarded by of thousands of starlings - in scenes reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 thriller The Birds.
1 years ago
As Nosferatu reboot goes down a storm with critics take a look back at the best and worst Hollywood horror remakes from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho to terrifying Black Christmas ○
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Critics have gone wild for the latest horror remake as Nosferatu returns to screens with Robert Egger's remake of the 1922 silent classic.
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