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It's not quite Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds," but former Mannington Mayor Frank White says he's had enough of the winged creatures for a long time.

Watching North By Northwest for what must be that 10th time, I was struck as much by how totally absurd Ernest Lehman's screenplay is.

Cary Grant is on the run again in Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 thriller "North By Northwest," remastered now in high-definition. Madison Avenue culture is a blip on the ol' radar screen again, thanks to AMC's cable-TV show "Mad Men." So it's interesting to track its picture of early '60s male corporate hegemony alongside a contemporary take on the breed ...

Thankfully, Peter Gabriel realized the error of his ways: Would Lloyd Dobler be the same without In Your Eyes? Anniversaries offer time for reflection, and is there any medium more reflective than the silver screen? This week saw the release of two celebratory reissues: Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest turns 50; Cameron Crowe's Say Anything ...

"Ridiculous." "Defies plausibility." "Blissfully divorced by logic." Then there are the contradictory comparisons.

What happens when a dashing ad agency exec is mistaken for a U.S. secret agent, chased across the continent by enemy spies, tempted by the beautiful woman he meets on a train, chased down by a machinegun wielding, crop-dusting plane, and dangled from the faces of Mount Rushmore? Alfred Hitchcock at one of his finest moments is what happens, and it ...

Into espionage? Among new DVD releases this month is a special 50th-anniversary edition of Hitchcock's masterpiece, "North by Northwest." If evolution is more your style, check out an illuminating documentary that marks Darwin's 200th birthday and the publication of his seminal treatise on evolution in 1859.

Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 masterpiece has never looked better, and it's among this week's platinum picks.

It's one of the most chilling chase scenes in film history: A suited Cary Grant runs for his life as a low-flying biplane buzzes, shoots and crop-dusts him before crashing into a fiery ball.

Alfred Hitchcock's great romantic/comedy/thriller -- with Cary Grant at his witty, seductive, impeccable best.

Some local farmers recently found themselves in what they described as scene from "The Birds," Alfred Hitchcock's famous horror film, as thousands of blackbirds, starlings and grackles descended on their crops.

Lots of people are referred to as Hollywood loyalty, but rarely does that title fit both figuratively and literally.

WHO CAN FORGET those images - Cary Grant on a deserted highway being chased by a crop dusting plane? Grant and Eva Marie Saint scampering over the president's noses on Mount Rushmore as they are pursued by a group of nefarious spies? Then there's the pulsating score by Bernard Herrmann, one of the great screen composer's most evocative works.

ALSO ON DVD: Boomer nostalgia DVDs of the Week. In attractive tins, sold separately, it's the fondly-remembered WALT DISNEY TREASURES: ZORRO - " FIRST SEASON and ZORRO - " SECOND SEASON.

Although Halloween has come and gone, the FSR universe of readers and contributors alike have hardly satiated their horror fix, so this week's Culture Warrior presents three movies that were major game-changers for the genre.

All spotlights will be pointing southwest Monday night in the honor of the Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece "North by Northwest," as the famed director's classic "wrong man" thriller celebrates its 50th anniversary at the American Film Institute's Los Angeles Film Festival.

The monochrome world of Hitchcock's Spellbound has been revisited in a new artistic medium - layers of brown parcel tape stuck on to a 4ft-high sheet of clear plastic through which light is shone.

October 31st, 2009 by Matt Brunson in Film , Film News , Film Reviews The Main Librarya s fall film series, a oeThe Master of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock Classics,a continues Monday, Nov.

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"NORTH BY NORTHWEST'' Knowing a hawk from a handsaw Cary Grant stands along an utterly exposed stretch of prairie highway, only slowly realizing why a distant crop duster seems to be taking such a curious flight path.