North by Northwest
When screenwriter Ernest Lehman was assigned to work for Alfred Hitchcock, he told the famed "master of suspense": "I'd like to write the Hitchcock pictu...
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Critical Essay by Gordon Gow
[North by Northwest] is arguably as good an indication as can be found of Alfred Hitchcock's ability to match his sense of humour to his lively suspense tactics. S...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations Tuesday
for the 80th annual Academy Awards. The Oscars, the film industry's most coveted awards, w...
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The American Film Institute's original 1998 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "Casablanca," 1942.3. "The Godfather," 1972.4. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.5. "Lawrence of ...
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The American Film Institute's 2007 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "The Godfather," 1972.3. "Casablanca," 1942.4. "Raging Bull," 1980.5. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952.6...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - For almost three decades the
College Music Journal Music Marathon has been a place for
up-and-coming bands like R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers and The
Killers to be discovered ...
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The Plaza hotel, the setting for dozens of movies and home to the fictional Eloise, celebrated its 100th birthday Monday with a party complete with fireworks and a 1-ton cake in the building's imag...
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Alfred Hitchcock knew fear. Once, when he was 5 and created some mischief, his father sent him to the local police station with a note. After reading the note, a sergeant put the boy in a cell for ...
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The outpouring of sentiment over the closing of the Plaza Hotel is really starting to get on my nerves. If y'all are so hopelessly in love with the place, then just celebrate the fact that it is be...
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More auteurist than erotic, Eros consists of three short films directed by Wong Kar Wai, Steven Soderbergh and Michelangelo Antonioni. With a title like that on a marquee, the film's target audienc...
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J.J. Abrams’ Mission: Impossible III, from a screenplay by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Mr. Abrams, based on the television series created by Bruce Geller, has become an impossible mission...
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Paul McGuigan’s Lucky Number Slevin, from a screenplay by Jason Smilovic, masterfully manages to materialize as a fast-talking play on words, plots and fatally mistaken identities, with ackno...
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North by Northwest
Critical Essay by Gordon Gow
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