Marion Michael Morrison set the standard for the tall (6'4"), strong, silent type. The lowly paid actor rose to stardom when he was cast as the Ringo Kid in John Ford's classic western. From there, he never looked back.
This summer marks the 25th anniversary of the Los Angeles Conservancy's Last Remaining Seats Film Festival, with seven revival screenings in Downtown'...
In the course of their famous book-length interview, François Truffaut once asked Alfred Hitchcock about his approach to literary adaptation, and Hit...
We opened this week with a terrifying nightmare vision: Russell had cloned thousands of exact replicas of himself, and they were waking up, and flying off to attack!
You know the writers are in trouble when they have to rely upon Hathaway's mother and Franco's grandmother to help out in the audience. All in all the show was mediocre, but not a disaster.
"Everything's perverted in a different way, isn't it?"--Alfred Hitchcock Do you ever wonder why some of the greatest performers and directors of all ...
This could be a Psycho-good casting call. Modern-day psycho-horror legend Anthony Hopkins is in negotiations to play the original master, Alfred Hi...
Derivative use ranges from the subtle (Cindy Sherman's "stills" echoing Hitchcock's movies) to deliberately heavy-handed (the near re-staging of Sherman's works by Alex Prager). So, what dictates proper use of someone's art?
Learn about how artists from Latin America explored perception and sensation in a guided tour of the exhibition Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space.
The Tourist is not one of the top ten movies of the year. It doesn't seem to aspire that high.
The Tourist is more like steerage than coach, a tarted-up piece of product that's flat and witless. Hopefully, Henckel von Donnersmarck will go back to making his own films and put Hollywood in his rearview mirror.
When Hitchcock cast Grace Kelly in 1954's Dial M For Murder, he quickly knew he'd found his ideal female muse: an impossibly beautiful blonde who could convey ice on the surface while exuding fire underneath.
Reading The Woman in White is not unlike being in a cage surrounded by sharks, if you could somehow eat crème brulee at the same time. It is exquisitely uncomfortable.
Alfred Hitchcock always preferred Northern California to Hollywood; he shot some of his most accomplished films within a 90-mile radius of San Francis...
German writer-director Margarethe von Trotta started directing movies in the 1970s, at a time when few women were behind the cameras. This week, von Trotta explained how much we still have to learn from a woman who lived centuries ago.
The best design books can open your eyes to a beauty previously unseen as easily as they can make you fall all over again for something you've always ...
Get your hands on a copy of Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring. This cinematic Buddhist fable will open your Third Eye.
The thing I love about double-eviction weeks is that it clearly shows the producers are as sick of these house guests as I am.
It is exceedingly strange and more than a little sad that actresses Olivia de Havilland, 94, and her sister Joan Fontaine, 93, have been estranged for many years, the result of an intense sibling rivalry which has never dissipated.
There are a few things we gay men are good at: fashion, hygiene, dressing up dogs in people clothes, and the ability to be absolutely terrifying on the big screen.
This is the new, improved, always evolving GASP list -- the list of movies that you should have seen if you want to work (produce, write, direct, act) in the entertainment industry.
Rather than dismiss or rail against the new competitive threat of television, Hitchcock seized the fledgling industry by the throat and created his own mystery series, which he hosted each week.
With no new horror, fantasy, and science fiction films opening nationwide this week, the Cinefantastique Podcast turns its eye on the 50th anniversary...
In the second installment of Cinefantastique's new weekly podcast, Dan Persons, Steve Biodrowski, and Lawrence French look at Martin Scorsese's new ho...
