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.
Thursday, June 24 2010
Hitchcock 101: Day Ten, 1963 - 1966
Today we’ll examine the last Hitchcock masterpiece, and begin our discussion of his slow denouement.
Wednesday, June 23 2010
The Primal Drive of Fear and Desire in Hitchcock’s 'Vertigo' and 'The Birds'
Typical of Hitchcock, he does not provide answers in Vertigo and The Birds, rather, he demonstrates the inherent dangers of living with -- yet denying -- the dark psychic forces that control our lives from deep withing our subconscious minds.
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.
Blogs
Tuesday, January 18 2011
Insufferable Human Drama as Catalyst in 'The Birds'
Setting off even the most explosive powderkeg of human emotion would not make a flock of birds go insane and start attacking, much less this smoldering controlled burn. But such is the only line of causation the film allows its viewer.
