Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), was a film director famous for skillfully wrought suspense thrillers. He was essentially concerned with depicting the tenuous relations between people and objects and ren...
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"I am out to give the public good, healthy, mental shake-ups," the late great film director Alfred Hitchcock once said back in 1936. The quote is taken from Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings a...
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Critical Essay by Thomas Burton
"Rebecca," the novel by Daphne du Maurier, for all its great popularity, limped badly and never really came completely to life…. But in the motion...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Sgammato
When we speak of [Hitchcock's] camera, of course, we are speaking of an amalgam of director and audience: the director's eye and the eye of the beholde...
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Critical Essay by Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol
With Rebecca, the "Hitchcock touch," which has previously been merely a distinguishing feature, becomes a vision of the world. Spontanei...
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Jerry O'Connell and bride Rebecca Romijn will soon be joining the ranks ofexpectant parents — if their plans come to fruition."Rebecca and I are both looking forward to the next logical step,...
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In the final months of Rebecca Riley's life, a school nurse said the little girl was so weak she was like a "floppy doll."The preschool principal had to help Rebecca off the bus because the 4-year-...
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A mother charged with killing her 4-year-old daughter with an overdose of prescription drugs now believes her daughter was probably misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, she said in her first intervi...
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A mother charged with killing her 4-year-old daughter with an overdose of prescription drugs now believes her daughter was probably misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, she said in her first intervi...
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