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DVD Review: ‘North By Northwest’ 50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray

26 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

One of the most visually stunning, action packed, clever and suspenseful of all Alfred Hitchcock movies, his 1959 masterpiece North By Northwest finally gets the Blu-ray treatment it deserves. Featuring a terrific remastering with lots of great supplemental material and beautiful packaging the movie really shines and Warner Bros. has clearly pulled out all the tops to bring this classic film to a new generation of audiences.

Just in case you’re not familiar with this Hitchcock masterpiece, it stars Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason and a young Martin Landau in a story featuring one of Hitchcock’s signature conceits: the wrong man. Grant’s Roger Thornhill, mistaken for superspy George Kaplan by a group of sinister agents led by James Mason’s Phillip Vandamm, is taken to a county house, forceably intoxicated and almost murdered. He barely manages to escape with his life, mostly due to his high »

- Chris Ullrich

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Birthday Suits

25 November 2009 6:05 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Your filmic birthdays for 11/25

1914 Joe Dimaggio, center fielder and Mr. Marilyn Monroe, albeit briefly

1920 Ricardo Montalban "Smiles everyone, smiles." (sniffle)

1933 Kathryn Grant, aka Mrs. Bing Crosby, whose film career was spotted with famous stuff (Rear Window, My Sister Eileen, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad) but less than a decade in length.

1947 Jonathan Kaplan, director of 80s & 90s actresses (Bad Girls, Love Field, The Accused, Heart Like a Wheel) who now only works on TV

1947 Tracey Walter, character actor

1960 JFK Jr., prince of Camelot, dater of actresses, magazine entrepeneur. I loved George back in the day. Remember that?

1965 Dougray Scott, the almost Wolverine (Mi:ii, Enigma, Dark Water)

1984 Gaspard Ulliel, French looker. Also acts. »

- NATHANIEL R

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Their Best Role: Meryl Streep

18 November 2009 9:02 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Welcome to a new series here on Cinematical where we select an actor or actress and the role we think is their all time best.

Last August, "Meryl Streep" wrote an op-ed piece for The Onion called "Name One Masterpiece Of Cinema That I've Starred In." It was really written by the Onion staff, of course, but they (and Streep) made a good point. For a woman who is very possibly the finest living actor of any sex, she has made very few truly unforgettable films. Her resume doesn't contain anything quite like Rear Window, The Godfather, Chinatown or Pulp Fiction. Case in point: the article brings up Kramer vs. Kramer. "Streep" says "I'd watch it if it were on," but it isn't really a masterpiece. Also, it's more Dustin Hoffman's movie than Streep's movie, and if you look at it that way, it ranks pretty far down on Hoffman's list of classics. »

- Jeffrey M. Anderson

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January Jones and the best of clips from SNL

15 November 2009 1:49 PM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

NBC fired over the best of clips of SNL from last night's broadcast. The show featured "Mad Men" star January Jones and musical guest: The Black Eyed Peas. January brought a classy touch to SNL, spoofing such characters as the female lead in "Rear Window" and the lesser known wife of Dr. Jekyll, Mrs. Jekyll. She also teaches today.s women how to throw a real cocktail party for their man. Also, weekend update boasts such guests as Lou Dobbs, Kim Kardashian, and Jon Bovi! Biden Cold Open [5:37] For the next week, Joe's running things. Mad Mennies Monologue [2:30] The Mennies memorize every Mad Men episode. Today Show [5:45] Kathy Lee has a song »

- April MacIntyre

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Kevin Williamson to Open Your Bedroom Window

12 November 2009 6:20 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

While sitting down with MTV for an interview, scribe Kevin Williamson offered an update on his long attachment to Curtis Hanson's 1987 thriller Bedroom Window.

"I’ve got a great plan for it; I’m really excited," Williamson tells MTV. "It’s based on the book 'The Witnesses' [by Anne Holden] and I’m going to balance out the book; I’m going to pull more from the book [than Hanson did]. I’m doing it in between Scream 4 and 5."

"Basically, a guy is having an affair with his boss’ wife. They’re finishing up after a night of sex, and she goes towards the window to smoke a cigarette, and she sees a murder outside her window. She sees the killer, and they call the police, but she can’t be there because she’s the boss’ wife. So she tells all of her information to [the man she’s sleeping with], and he becomes the witness."

"But he never »

- Uncle Creepy

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What's On Tonight: Community, Fringe, Supernatural, Private Practice

12 November 2009 9:16 AM, PST | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »

At 8, ABC has a new FlashForward, followed by new episodes of Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice. CBS has a new Survivor, then new episodes of CSI and The Mentalist. NBC has new episodes of Community, Parks and Recreation, The Office, 30 Rock, and The Jay Leno Show. Fox has a new Bones at 8, followed by a new Fringe. The CW has a new Vampire Diaries at 8, then a new Supernatural. Current has a new Current Exposed at 8, followed by a new SuperNews. TCM has Dial M For Murder at 8, then Rear Window. At 9, Comedy Central has a new Jeff Dunham Show. Tlc has a new American Chopper at 9. Spike has a new Tna Wrestling at 9. Cartoon Network has a new Total Drama Action at 9. TruTV has a new World's Dumbest at 9, followed by two new episodes of It Only Hurts When I Laugh. At 10, Lifetime has a new Project Runway. There's »

- Bob Sassone

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Kevin Williamson's 'The Bedroom Window' Remake Coming Between Fourth And Fifth 'Scream' Movies

12 November 2009 8:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Between launching hit shows like “The Vampire Diaries” and writing three (!) eagerly anticipated scripts for the upcoming “Scream” sequels, you’d think Kevin Williamson would be a pretty busy dude. You’d think he wouldn’t have time to focus his abundance of creative energy anywhere else. Well, think again.

“The other thing that’s exciting that’s coming up is I’m doing a remake of ‘The Bedroom Window,” the “Dawson’s Creek” mastermind explained when we caught up with recently. “It was Curtis Hanson’s first film. With Steve Guttenberg and Elizabeth McGovern. Go look it up. Put it on your TiVo; it’s fun.”

Released in 1987, “Bedroom” was a modest hit based on the novel “The Witnesses” by Anne Holden. Similar in theme to the Alfred Hitchcock classic “Rear Window” (or for anyone under the age of 20 reading this, “Disturbia”), it was a modest hit that helped »

- Larry Carroll

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Blu-Ray Review: Alfred Hitchcock Makes Striking HD Debut With ‘North by Northwest’

11 November 2009 2:06 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – It is as difficult for me to write critically about “North by Northwest” as it would be for someone to discuss their first love. The films of Hitchcock are, without question, why I do what I do and my only concern, as they start to be released on Blu-Ray, is that they won’t live up to the bar set by the package put together for first Hitch movie on the next-gen format - “North by Northwest”.

Blu-Ray Rating: 5.0/5.0

What more could possibly be written about “North by Northwest”? As co-star Martin Landau recently told me, it played to him like a “greatest hits” of Hitchcock’s career to that point. This is Alfred Hitchcock at the top of his game playing with themes that had been a part of his career since silent film. Released in between “Vertigo” and “Psycho,” “North by Northwest” is one of the most »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Grace Kelly on TCM: Rear Window, The Country Girl

10 November 2009 10:46 PM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

James Stewart, Grace Kelly in Rear Window Turner Classic Movies‘ Grace Kelly series continues this Thursday, Nov. 12, with three of Kelly’s biggest hits, all from 1954: Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and The Country Girl. Kelly, who died in 1982 following a car accident in Monaco, would have turned 80 on Nov. 12. Some consider Dial M for Murder a minor Alfred Hitchcock effort. Personally, I find it more enjoyable than Hitchcock’s revered Rear Window. Part of the reason is a pair of deadly scissors found in the former but not in the latter; yet, I’d say that the chief reason is that neither one of Kelly’s leading men in Dial M for Murder is James Stewart. Instead, [...] »

- Andre Soares

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Free Lecture, Screening to Highlight Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, 12/6

9 November 2009 1:43 PM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre invites you to look, listen and learn during an evening devoted to the great film director Alfred Hitchcock.

On Dec. 6, the theatre will host a free lecture by film expert Martin Leichter, "Hitchcock: The Mayhem Behind His Movies," about the director's 18th film, The 39 Steps. Leichter will serve as a tour guide to the film, illuminating key points, and telling the audience what to watch for in the 1935 thriller, which will be screened immediately following the lecture.

Nearly 30 years after his death, Hitchcock's name remains synonymous with great film. The silver screen would be decidedly less glittering without such masterpieces as Rebecca, Vertigo, The Birds, Psycho, Rear Window, North by Northwest and The 39 Steps. And who can forget his countless cameos on the big screen, and his droll introductions to his Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series?

In The 39 Steps, Robert Donat plays an innocent man framed »

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Bsb: In Praise of Fright Night

8 November 2009 10:40 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

When you scrape away the death obsessed subtext and technicalities of the process, watching and loving horror films should be just plain fun, exhilarating fun, a complete escape into another parallel world that echoes our own. If it's not, if you find yourself labouring to find that simple joyous eye of the proverbial needle, well then, perhaps you should just give up the pursuit of terror geekdome altogether.

For me, speaking as someone who was literally born into a world where the people that done made me loved dark movies and weird entertainments and fully endorsed my obsessions with my growing "id", horror films will forever be tied to the sweetest moments of my youth. From those secret late night, school night, TV movie binges to sneaking into R rated films after buying PG tickets, horror was my first rebellion against the mainstream so embraced by my peers and the »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)

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North By Northwest Blu-ray Review

7 November 2009 10:02 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Going back to the old masters, going back to the classics is always illuminating. Someone like Alfred Hitchcock knew how to frame a film. He knew where he was putting his camera, and why it was there. As in North by Northwest he achieved one of the great visual representations of sex. Cary Grant lifts Eva Marie Saint up to bed, and then a train enters a tunnel. Not exactly subtle, but undeniably brilliant. My review after the jump.

North by Northwest is one of Hitchcock’s most pleasurable films. In his cycle of “wrong man on the run” films, which includes The 39 Steps and Foreign Correspondent, North by Northwest has one advantage over those others films: It stars Cary Grant. And Grant’s dapper persona adds a level of debonair to whatever he did. Here he stars as Roger Thornhill, who’s mistaken for secret agent George Kaplan. He »

- Andre Dellamorte

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Posters To Drool On

2 November 2009 11:41 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

I can't remember where I read about these amazing posters by Brandon Schaefer -- shame, because I hate not giving credit where it's due -- but I keep clicking back to them. I would love for movie marketing to be graphically enticing like this since the bulk of what's out there is poorly photoshopped floating celebrity heads. But at least we get brilliant poster imaging from adventurous repertory houses, museums and libraries and the like. Some of these posters at Seek and Speak are breathtakingly designed and smartly capitalize on either the title or a memorable image/theme from the film.

Here's a few I loved for The Blair Witch Project, The Dark Knight and Planet of the Apes.

Beautiful, yes? You can see more including clever takes on 8 1/2, Rear Window, Alien and other classic gems or modern hits here.

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- NATHANIEL R

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Directors We Love: Alfred Hitchcock

1 November 2009 4:03 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

This is a no-brainer, right? Everyone loves Hitchcock. But it was not always so. The great director, whose North by Northwest comes out on a new, 50th Anniversary DVD and Blu-Ray on Tuesday, was once considered a populist panderer with little artistic value in his work. Even if you were a film critic, it was not the done thing to explore the mood and structure of a film. And even the rare critic that did that, such as Manny Farber or James Agee, tended not to go crazy over Hitchcock's work. (He was too popular and supposedly did not need defending.) At the time, it was more important in film to have a strong moral message, or to impress audiences with size and scale. Hitchcock worked in the lowest genres, telling stories about creeps and murderers and kidnappers, none of which had any benefit to society. Yes, Hitchcock was nominated for Best Director five times, »

- Jeffrey M. Anderson

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Geek Deal: Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece DVD Collection for $54

28 October 2009 9:32 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day is the Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece DVD Collection for $53.99, 55% off the $120 list price. The collection features "14 of the finest works from the universally acclaimed Master of Suspense come together for the first time in one collection." Packaged in a velvet box, the individual discs inside come four to a case, decorated with original poster art. A 36-page booklet is filled mostly with stills and poster art. As with all the gold box deals, this deal is only good until midnight. The titles include: The Birds; Marnie; Vertigo; Rope; Rear Window; Psycho; The Man Who Knew Too Much; Torn Curtain; Frenzy; Shadow of a Doubt; The Trouble With Harry; Topaz; Saboteur; and Family Plot. Each of the 14 films is supplemented with numerous documentaries, commentaries, and other bonus materials: 14 documentaries; 9 featurettes; Commentaries; Newsreel footage; Production photos, sketches and notes; Storyboards; Theatrical trailers; Masters ... »

- Peter Sciretta

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BFI Lff Review: Chloe

22 October 2009 1:37 PM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

Atom Egoyan’s remake of Anna Fontaine’s 2003 thriller Nathalie relocates the French thriller to a beautifully filmed Toronto and employs Mamma Mia’s Amanda Seyfried as the eponymous escort in what can only be described as an ‘erotic thriller’ (I know…) that falls short of complete satisfaction.

The film is ostensibly a simple thriller of deception and suspicion as Julianne Moore’s Anna suspects her husband of sleeping his way across the country to his New York University. Their marriage is a series of pregnant pauses and disappointed remembrances of their early years before their son was born. Their troubles are evident however David shows a total reluctance to acknowledge them. Moore is always worth watching and can imbue even the most tired role with a weight and sensitivity, and in this film she carries a sadness with her that is tangible and affecting. If only the film could »

- Jon Lyus

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Pine & Caruso In Talks To Make ‘Money’

14 October 2009 12:49 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Variety is reporting that Chris Pine a.k.a the new Captain Kirk, and director D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye) are in talks for the fact-based financial drama, The Art of Making Money. Paramount has put plans in place to fast-track the production for an early 2010 start having one of the leading men-of-the-moment and a successful action/thriller director attached will certainly boost the movie.

Paramount acquired The Art of Making Money based on a Rolling Stone article from 2005 by Jason Kersten, who himself turned it into a book called The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter, published last summer. The script is written by Frank Baldwin, and the film will be produced by Brian Robbins, Sharla Sumpter and Brad Weston. If the two officially sign onto the project, Caruso will, of course, direct and Pine will play, “Art Williams, the alias for a Chicago man »

- Ross Miller

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Give your Halloween party a Hitchcock theme

14 October 2009 7:05 AM, PDT | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »

You worked the vampire look last year and zombies the time before that, so what theme to give your Halloween party this year? How about taking some inspiration from the Master of Suspense, the late, great Mr Alfred Hitchcock? The mastermind behind so many movie masterpieces, including Vertigo, North By Northwest and Rear Window to name but three, is still considered the greatest British filmmaker ever and a great source of spooky stories. And offering up two fantastic ideas is Meg Allan Cole from do-it-yourself fashion site, ThreadBanger.com in an easy-to-follow video tutorial. Click over to watch. »

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Nocturnal Admissions: Review of Not Quite Hollywood

6 October 2009 10:30 PM, PDT | Quick Stop | See recent Quick Stop news »

There are two essential books that celebrate region-specific horror films both well-known and obscure. One is Stephen Thrower’s Nightmare USA (with a companion volume planned). The other is They Came From Within, Caelum Vatnsdal’s history of Canadian horror movies. What these two books suggest is that the best of the cinema’s independent horror films are really regional works. Three of the most famous horror films of all time, Night of the Living Dead, Carnival of Souls, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre are really regional films, independently financed and shot far from Hollywood with local actors and crew members. Thus they have a flavor not found in mainstream genre movies, spices of quirkiness, unpredictability, and rigorous bleakness that mainstream movies can’t or won’t allow themselves.

As far as I know there isn’t a book about Australian genre cinema yet, but now there is a film: »

- dkholm

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Blu-Ray Review: ‘Henry’ Remains an Indelible ‘Portrait’ of a Sociopath

6 October 2009 10:39 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – Twenty-three years after it was made, and nineteen years after its limited theatrical release, “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” is as potent and relevant as ever. Filmmaker John McNaughton, along with writing partner Richard Fire, proved that true horror is found not in manufactured scares that jolt the audience like a theme park ride, but in the corrupted mind and soul of an evil being. The film truly is a human “portrait,” since it is more interested in behavior than plot. McNaughton used the true story of a Texas killer named Henry as his inspiration for this masterwork, which still stands as one of the finest and most unsettling independent films ever made.

Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0

There are definite echoes of “Psycho” in the film’s unforgettable opening sequence, where the camera focuses on Henry’s recent victims with a quiet horror that evokes memories of Marion Crane’s »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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