Alfred Hitchcock

Shhhh! De Niro’s Spy Flick Keeps It to a Whisper

<b>Second Review:</b> The great Peter O
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Second Review: The great Peter O

Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd, from a screenplay by Eric Roth, has been described as &ldq  read more »

Simultaneous Explosions: Debut Novel Begins with a Bang

Chris Cleave, Oxford-educated former journalist, has a dishy, vicious sense of humor.
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Chris Cleave, Oxford-educated former journalist, has a dishy, vicious sense of humor.

For 59 pages, Chris Cleave’s Incendiary is a tour de force.  read more »

Warriors Battle Lyrical In House of Flying Daggers

Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers, from a screenplay by Mr.  read more »

DVD's, Videos, TiVo, Downloadables

Spies, Lies, and Paranoid WivesAlfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) made watchable and rewatchable movies in  read more »

Oedipal Drama, Russian Style: Zvyagintsev's The Return

Andrei Zvyagintsev's The Return has been likened to the obsessive cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1  read more »

Inspired by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Smile Bares Wellesley's Quaint Past

Mike Newell's Mona Lisa Smile , from a screenplay by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, reportedly  read more »

A World War Interrupts A Young Girl's Fairy Tale

Sally Potter's The Man Who Cried, from her own screenplay, turns out to be a more effective musical  read more »

A Day in the Life of L.A.: Where's the Rough Stuff?

Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia deals with a dozen or more dysfunctional denizens of the San Fernand  read more »

A Simple New NoHo Star With a Mediterranean Flair

Five Points, a bright blue and white outpost on a scruffy street in NoHo, is named after a notorious  read more »

Hitch and Me: A Case of Vertigo

Beginning April 16, the Museum of Modern Art will present four months of exhibitions devoted to the  read more »

The Man Who Made Kids Has Redeemed Himself

Larry Clark's Another Day in Paradise , from a screenplay by Christopher Landon and Stephen Chin, ba  read more »

A Woman In Jeopardy Saves Own Life

During the day I read all sorts of interesting and challenging books: film theory, the latest works  read more »

Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week

Alfred Hitchcock's first American film was originally going to be about the Titanic , but instead, i  read more »