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It's Thanksgiving, Let's Party!: Ten Films For The Coming Weeks

John Farr | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Graduate, Fred MacMurray, Woody Allen, Thanksgiving, Paul Simon, The Thin Man, The Apartment, Animal House, Diane Keaton, Peter Sellers, Spencer Tracy, Best Movies by Farr, Don Cheadle, Ben Affleck, Father of the Bride Movie, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cary Grant, Burt Reynolds, Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Stanwyck, Blake Edwards, Boogie Nights, Grace Kelly, Julianne Moore, Matthew McConaughey, Bonnie and Clyde, Jack Lemmon, Jeff Goldblum, Parker Posey, Preston Sturges, Dustin Hoffman, William H. Macy, Elizabeth Taylor, Holiday Shopping, Holiday Season, William Powell, John C. Reilly, It's a Wonderful Life, Holiday Season Commentary, To Catch a Thief, Billy Wilder, Mark Wahlberg, A Christmas Carol, Dazed and Confused, Jon Voight, Parties, Henry Fonda, Mad Men, Midnight Cowboy, Shirley MacLaine, P.T. Anderson, Annie Hall, Richard Linklater, Myrna Loy, Heather Graham, The Love Boat, Entertainment News

Get ready, folks, for the coming blur of forced reunions, work-related functions, and cacophonous Christmas parties.

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Words From the Saint, Eva Marie

Kim Morgan | Posted 11.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, Otto-Preminger, Eva-Marie-Saint, North by Northwest, Marlon Brando, Cary Grant, John Frankenheimer, Montgomery Clift, Entertainment News

In her first movie, she kissed Marlon Brando. And then she won an Oscar. How many actresses get that kind of a debut? But then, how many actresses are as wonderful as Eva Marie Saint?

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Chinatown's 35th Anniversary Edition and the Polanski Scandal

William Bradley | Posted 10.24.2009 | Entertainment

On the surface, it's a period detective picture. Beneath, it's much more. The film creates its own mesmerizing world through evocative music, costuming, and production design.

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Treehouse Of Horror XX: The Simpsons Do Hitchcock On Halloween Special (VIDEO)

Posted 10.19.2009 | Comedy

Read More: The Simpsons, Alfred Hitchcock, Video, Treehouse of Horror, Treehouse of Horror Xx, Hitchcock, Halloween, Dial M for Murder, Simpsons Hitchcock, Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Xx, The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Xx, Simpsons Halloween Xx, Dial M for Murder Simpsons, Tree House of Horror Xx, Comedy News

The Simpsons celebrated their twentieth Halloween special last night with an ode to Hitchcock. The segment was called "Dial M for Murder," but the plo...

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The Birds in Review: A Review of The Birds

Dave Hill | Posted 09.29.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy, Dave Hill, Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Comedy News

Last night I watched The Birds, the popular Alfred Hitchcock film in which a bunch of birds are total dicks to every human in sight for no apparent reason other than the fact that they are birds.

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Marcus Sakey Is No Amateur at Writing Engrossing Novels

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Marcus Sakey, Alfred Hitchcock, Robbery, Ordinary People, Mob, Media News

There is a brilliant writer in America somehow flying under the radar of public knowledge. His name is Marcus Sakey and he has written four enormously enjoyable books, the latest being The Amateurs.

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How Popular Culture Empowers The Joe Wilsons Of This World

John Farr | Posted 11.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, Carlos Reygadas, Jim Lehrer, Joe Wilson, Warner Archive Collection, Best Movies on DVD, Pbs Newshour, Mark Shields, Classic Movies, Silent Light, Barack Obama, John Huston, Best Movies by Farr, Warner, Entertainment News

Wilson is one of those mediocre, small men who have always occupied the fringes of influence but would never have imagined to insult a sitting President in bygone days.

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Targeted Quality: The Advent Of On-Demand DVDs

John Farr | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Edward G. Robinson, Video on Demand, Best Movies by Farr, George Feltenstein, Alain Resnais, Warner Home Entertainment, Cary Grant, Thirteen/WNET, Alfred Hitchcock, Amazon.com, Warner Brothers, Reel 13, Warner Archive Collection, John Garfield, Fdr, Classic Movies, Warner Home Video, Criterion Collection, Entertainment News

Technology will only offer more quality film choices as time goes by. The trick for savvy consumers and movie fans will be to stay informed as to what's really good..

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The Great 3D "Debate" Shouldn't Be a Debate at All

Richard Gelfond | Posted 09.20.2009 | Entertainment

The reason I'm optimistic about 3D this time around is that the greatest storytellers of our time -- Tim Burton, Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg -- are embracing the format.

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The Ten Best Movies About Journalism by Farr

John Farr | Posted 08.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Mitchum, Pbs, Journalists, Kirk Douglas, Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Jane Fonda, Billy Wilder, American Masters, Best Movies by Farr, Journalism, Sigourney Weaver, Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Woodward, Tom Brokaw, Jack-Lemmon, Peter Jennings, Reel 13, 60 Minutes, Mel Gibson, Warren Beatty, Carl Bernstein, Walter Cronkite, Sam Waterston, Dan Rather, Peter Saarsgard, PBS Documentaries, Jason Robards, Robert Redford, Michael Douglas, Entertainment News

In the wake of the revered Walter Cronkite's passing, I've attempted to isolate the ten best movies about journalism.

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Iranians Worldwide Roll Out Green Scroll Against Ahmadinejad (SLIDESHOW, UPDATES)

Diane Tucker | Posted 08.19.2009 | World

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Updates, and video screen grabs from the ceremony in Paris, follow the post. AUSTIN, TX -- When a reporter asked Vaclav Havel to comment on Iran's p...

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

Penelope Andrew | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: James Garner, Louis Jordan, James Cagney, Terry Melcher, Clark Gable, Norman Jewison, Love Me or Leave Me, David Kaufman, Rock Hudson, Hollywood, Martin Melcher, Pillow Talk, Judy Garland, Ethel Barrymore, Alfred Hitchcock, David Niven, Doris Day, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Jack Lemmon, Films, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Jimmy Stewart, Patrick O'Neal, Biographies, Michael Curtiz Ethel Barrymore, Thelma Ritter, Charles Ludlam, Storm Warning, Anita O'Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Spring Byington, Calamity Jance, Animal Rights, Kitty Foyle, Paul McCartney, Helen Forrest, Ginger Rogers, Janis Paige, Peggy Lee, The Great American Songbook, Oprah Winfrey, A Streetcar Named Desire, Linda Eastman McCartney, Table, Entertainment 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 David Kaufman, author of Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door.

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David Hyde Pierce Slept Here

Susan Braudy | Posted 06.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, David Hyde Pierce, Ernst Lubitch, Samson Raphaelson, Spamalot, Niles Crane, Elvis Costello, Accent on Youth, Frasier, Entertainment News

I recently traded a sunny day in Central Park to witness David Hyde Pierce's tour de force performance in the Manhattan theater club revival Accent O...

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The IFC Premiere of Bob Dylan's "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" Video

Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Amanda Aardsma, Joel Stoffer, Together Through Life, Music Video, Entertainment News, Billboard, Bob Dylan, Ifc, Alfred Hitchcock, Entertainment News

However one feels about the new video, when Dylan is up to something intentionally different or bizarre like this, it sends a little shockwave through the culture.

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Indian Film Director to Open Orphanage

Jim Luce | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

Read More: Tribeca Cinema, Orphanage, Oregon State University, Orphans International India, Suspense Thriller, Eternal Mind Productions, “Slumdog Millionaire”, Marche Du Film Market, Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Jim Luce, Mumbai, M. Night Shyamalan, Indian Film Director, Global Citizens, Alfred Hitchcock, “Where Are You Sophia?, Brad Pitt, Independent Film, Wall Street, Orphans International Worldwide, Shekhar Kapur, Thought Leaders, Cannes Film Festival, Nagendra Karri, Mira Niar, India, World News

Karri believes that as an Indian national he will be particularly adept at guiding OI India towards successfully raising 'global citizens' in India.

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Tribeca Film Festival: Hysterical Psycho

Dan Fogler | Posted 05.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, Tribeca Film Festival, Hitchcock, Psycho, Hysterical Psycho, Entertainment News

The title says it all. I wanted to direct an homage to Alfred Hitchcock with my own modern stamp of course.

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The Best Train Movies by Farr

John Farr | Posted 02.24.2009 | Entertainment

In a host of movies, the train has served as a microcosm of modern society, and the individual's potential risk and conflict within it.

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An Afternoon with Hitchcock

One For The Table | Posted 12.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, Horror Movies, Psycho, Jaws, Janet Leigh, Scary Movies, Living News

After you've seen one severed head you've seen them all. I prefer to be scared with style... and Hitchcock was the master. If you don't believe me, you should see my electric bill.

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