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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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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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Edge Of Darkness Trailer Now Online

15 October 2009 12:21 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

The trailer for Edge of Darkness is now online, and it looks like a movie throwback to an earlier time for several reasons. First of all, it's clearly a gritty cop drama with a grizzled lead (Mel Gibson, returning to acting for the first time in ages), involving quite a bit of violence but no bullet-time. Secondly, it features someone saying "Fasten your seatbelts", which we haven't heard in years.It's all based on the 1985 BBC TV series of the same name, but before you throw up your hands in disgust and dismiss it as just another remake, it's worth noting that this is directed by Martin Campbell, who also made the much acclaimed series. That makes it less like Gus Van Sant's Psycho and more like Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of his own film, The Man Who Knew Too Much.The film's out on February 19, 2010 in the UK, »

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Angelina Jolie To Replace Charlize Theron In ‘The Tourist?’

12 October 2009 10:49 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

A couple of months ago we got wind of the news that Terminator Salvation and Avatar star, Sam Worthington, was going to be replacing Tom Cruise in the spy thriller, The Tourist. That’s the male lead sorted out, but what about the female lead? Well, up until this point it was Charlize Theron who was set to play the role, but today we learn - by way of THR’s Risky Biz Blog - that she’s officially stepped away from the project, and word is that Brad Pitt’s even prettier half, a.k.a. Angelina Jolie, is in talks to step in and take her place.

A remake of the 2005 French-language thriller, “Anthony Zimmer“, The Tourist centers on “an American tourist who, on behalf of Interpol, goes undercover to entrap a former lover who’s a suspected global criminal.” If Jolie actually signs on for the role, »

- Ross Miller

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David Cronenberg Remaking The Fly

23 September 2009 8:23 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

We're very used to bemoaning remakes of classic films, but it's something completely different to see a filmmaker, a respected filmmaker at that, participate in a remake of his own movie. Somehow, in some way, David Cronenberg has been sucked into that trap. According to THR, Cronenberg has signed on to remake The Fly, the 1986 movie in which Jeff Goldblum turns into, well, a fly. Yeah, sure, Alfred Hitchcock remade The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Michael Haneke decided he needed to specifically punish Americans when he made an English-language version of Funny Games. But Cronenberg has always seemed like a filmmaker who moves forward, not the kind who revisits his own work. He should consider himself lucky he's not out promoting any movies at the moment, because otherwise he'd be faced with a litany of geek questions that would never, ever end. »

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Bernard Hermann Tributes On Turner Classic Movies Every Tuesday In September

26 August 2009 9:43 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

Hermann joking with frequent collaborator Alfred Hitchcock.

Cinema Retro reader and film historian Bruce Crawford gave us the head's up that he recently collaborated with Robert Osborne on a month-long tribute to composer Bernard Hermann. Films relating to the maestro will be presented every Tuesday in September on TCM. Here is a look at the schedule:

12 August 2009Tcm (USA) - Spotlight on HerrmannSource: Bill Huelbig, Bruce Crawford Every Tuesday in September Turner Classic Movies (Us Version) will show several Herrmann scored films.

The spotlight will be hosted by Robert Osborne.

The Herrmann consultant is Bruce Crawford.

The schedule:

1. Sept:

Hangover Square

Devil and Daniel Webster

Citizen Kane

The Magnificent Ambersons

On Dangerous Ground

8. Sept:

Five Fingers

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

The Naked and the Dead

3 Worlds of Gulliver

15. Sept:

The Trouble With Harry

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Vertigo

The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad

Mysterious Island »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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What Happened to the Far Flung Locations of Film?

17 August 2009 5:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

This is one of those posts that will see me called out as wrong, or state something painfully obvious, but you can't blame a girl for trying.

I've mentioned before that I've been watching a lot of film noir. Naturally, those kinds of Netflix searches lead one to watching a lot of fedora-filled films, and revisiting anything of Alfred Hitchcock's that happens to be online. Watching everything from Gilda to The Man Who Knew Too Much in a very short period of time has led me to jump to a silly conclusion --film locations used to be a lot more exotic. The films of the 1930s, '40s, 50s, and even 60s are set in all kinds of fabulous locations: Brazil, Buenos Aires, Shang-Hai, Istanbul, Cannes, Casablanca. Characters travel languidly and carelessly to all four corners of the Earth without thinking too much of it, which is pretty remarkable »

- Elisabeth Rappe

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Summer Reading on a Sunny (Doris) Day: David Kaufman's The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door Part I

30 June 2009 6:26 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

There are certain actors we encounter as children having grown up on classic film who have a profound impact on us, and no one knows this better than author David Kaufman. In his introduction to Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door, he remembers first seeing Day in the Hitchcock thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much at the Colony Theater in Cleveland, Ohio. It was "the first time I can remember identifying so thoroughly with a character in a movie. If I felt like Hank [the boy who is kidnapped], it was because Jo's boundless love for her son reminded me so much of my mother's...Jo would stop at nothing to get her son back." Played flawlessly by Doris Day, Jo, a former singer and theater actress comes out of retirement and... »

- Penelope Andrew

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"Idol" to get "Stuck in the Middle" next week with Quentin Tarantino and the Music of the Movies

9 April 2009 10:22 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

Adam Lambert's forgotten cameos in Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs 

The closest I've ever gotten to watching a full season of American Idol was the third season, back when Sanjaya was pronounced Jon Peter Lewis and Jennifer Hudson was setting the foundation for her name being synonymous with losing a talent competition and going on to have a huge career anyway.

Back then, the series memorably had Quentin Tarantino appearing to mentor the finalists and perform as guest-judge when they sang songs from the movies. Next week, Tarantino returns to Idol to revisit the movie theme. It's a welcome return, especially considering that during his last visit we enjoyed the hilarity of Tarantino being censored for saying "effing".

Last week, Adam Lambert performed a version of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" that was used Donnie Darko, so with that possibility eliminated, what do you think Adam will perform?

 

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- LyleMasaki

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