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Good e-e-evening, ladies and gentlemen. For your entertainment, the master of suspense will be subjected to shameless sendups in the hope that theatergoers will fall down laughing at "The 39 Steps." A giddy homage to the characters, MacGuffins, jolts and twists in Alfred Hitchcock's films, this Broadway smash promises a jolly good time for movie ...

That's some of the ad copy that will start popping up on computers across the country starting today, rendered in graphics reminiscent of '50s thrillers such as "Anatomy of a Murder" and "Vertigo" as well as the Communist scare propaganda of the day.

Is Bella Swan an independent and sort of daring young lovesick renegade...or a doormat? A good role modelor a godawful role model? Or should she be considered a role model at all? And what of the Twilight saga itself: Is it liberating the fantasy life of a new generation of young women by inviting them to wallow in the kind of stormy-skies, ...

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo is a haunting, unsettling, twisted love story that involves deception, murder and two accidental deaths.

They were my personal teen Rites of Spring. It took me years to understand the significance of both.

By 1938, producer-director Alfred Hitchcock felt he had nothing more to prove in his native England and was ready for Hollywood.

The more eco-minded among us might spend a day scouring a market for a tatty chest to repaint, or a weekend refurbishing a hand-me-down lamp.

Friday, November 06, 2009 As the California State Park system struggles with financial shortfalls, perhaps Hollywood should come to the rescue.

One of my favorite movies in general and Alfred Hitchcock movies specifically marks a landmark year.

Video Patrol: 'North by Northwest' better than ever Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 18:49 "That's funny." "What?" "That plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops." A few seconds later, Madison Avenue adman Roger Thornhill will be dodging the most evil crop duster in movie history.

Marion Thomason thought she was crazy. Several times a week, for seemingly no reason, she was overwhelmed by dizziness, a sensation of spinning that literally brought her to her knees.

"The People v. Leo Frank" Nearly 100 years later, the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan and the trial and lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory supervisor, still resonates in an America that outwardly prides itself on being a melting pot yet still is wary of "the Other." A cast led by Will Janowitz and Seth Gilliam re-enacts many of the still-harrowing ...

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It was with slight disappointment and definite surprise that I found, after years of intending to see it, Hitchcock's North by Northwest coming in just under the top tier of his films.

Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day is the Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece DVD Collection for $53.99 , 55% off the $120 list price.

One of the great advents of DVD is the restoration of classic movies. While a majority of the titles get a new picture and possibly enhanced sound, they don't really get the treatment that they deserve.

Some scary movie moments are impossible to separate from the manic music that helped sear them into our souls.

Les Diaboliques -- Who's Alfred Hitchcock? That's a question most people would probably chuckle at, expecting the person to either be joking or having lived under a rock for the entire 20th century.

It's a mural of Alfred Hitchcock in the great director's home town of Leytonstone in Britain, done by a young Spanish artist, Pablo Outon, with Hitch in punk-style black leather It's painted on a budiling named for a film many consider his materpiece, Vertigo .

A. O. Scott at the New York Times revisits Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo . In a video clip the Times put together, video producer Gabe Johnson says: "This movie shows Hitchcock at the very pinnacle of his powers.