From Sideshow to Main Event in Freaks
In 1932, a year after making Dracula (often billed as the first talkie horror picture) Tod Browning released Freaks, whichContinue Reading
Tag: Alfred Hitchcock
To Sleep with Anger in the Present and Past
One of America’s best kept secrets, and perhaps greatest failure as a collective nation, is a little-known filmmaker named CharlesContinue Reading
Secret Defense: If Chantal Akerman Directed a Film Noir
Jacques Rivette is widely regarded to have been the most experimental and uncompromising filmmaker to arise from the Nouvelle VagueContinue Reading
Discussing Save the Green Planet!
Nick Davie: As 2020 draws to a close, South Korean cinema has never been as popular as it is now,Continue Reading
Psycho (1998) and the Philosophy of Remakes
The movie industry today tends to reward anything with any sort of name recognition and has prompted an endless supplyContinue Reading
Most Anticipated of October 2020
Video on Demand By Alex Sitaras October means Halloween, and for this reason it would be remiss if we didn’tContinue Reading
1917 ★★½
The long take is nothing new, and neither is the “one shot film”. Alfred Hitchcock edited his masterful 1948 thrillerContinue Reading
Neo Noirvember
It’s November 2019, and Blade Runner is now set in the present. What better reason is there than that to commemorateContinue Reading
Diabolique: A Lesson in Suspense That Taught the Master Himself
It’s a well known legend in film history that Alfred Hitchcock was only hours away from securing the rights toContinue Reading
(The Influence of) The Spiral Staircase Never Ends
The opening scene of The Spiral Staircase immediately establishes the duality between appearance and interiority that will persist throughout thisContinue Reading
