Features
Friday, February 1 2013
The Best DVDs and Blu-rays of 2012
From classics to contemporary television, the typical titles and the surprising outsider choices, the year in home video was just as divisive, and delightful, as the rest of our meaningful media.
Tuesday, June 22 2010
Hitchcock and Homework: The Rewards and Perils of Hitchcock in the High School English Class
To what degree should a teacher help a student develop taste? Hitchcock stands as one of hundreds of artists whose work educators might use to explore questions of art and the classroom itself with their students.
Columns
Tuesday, October 30 2012
Did the Master of Suspense Make the Best Movies of All Time?
There was a time when Alfred Hitchcock was considered a mere populist entertainer. Like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and others before him, his early work didn’t click with intellectual minds -- they found nothing to praise in his lurid stories of murder, mystery and shocks.
Reviews
Sunday, January 1 1995
Rear Window (1954/2000)
Rear Window's theatrical rerelease is, among other things, a showcase for mainstream moviedom's emergent special effects technologies.
Blogs
Thursday, May 3 2012
Rear Window's Courtyard, Emphasized in a Short Film
As if performing careful, clinical cuts with a scalpel, visual artist Jeff Desom deconstructed the iconic backdrop of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window for a short film essay that has been shortlisted for the 2012 Vimeo Awards.
