Produced by Jeff Blitz and Sean Welch; directed by Jeff Blitz; cinematography by Jeff Blitz; edited by Yana Gorskaya; original music by Daniel Hulsizer; Sound recording by Sean Welch. Color, 97 mins. A ThinkFilm release. Who says you can't make real documentary...

RÃ"ZSA Spellbound * Allan Wilson, cond; Celia Sheen (theremin); Slovak RSO * INTRADA 7100 (74:44) The centenary of Miklós Rózsa's birth continues with the first complete recording of his Oscar-winning score for Alfred Hitchcock's 1945 production of Spellbound. Working from the composer's original...

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Recalling his military past may be key to John McCain's political future.Declining in the polls and struggling with fundraising, the Republican presidential candidate draws an appreciative response from audiences when he recounts his Navy pilot days and the fortitude of some of his fellow POWs...

"Spellbound" is a soupy, synthetic movie that will probably hold your attention. For one thing it deals, as few movies have, with the analysis of a man … who is said to be suffering from paranoia, schizophrenia and a guilt complex. What is more, it reveals the basic situation in psychoanalysis wherein the patient lies on a couch and says whatever comes into his mind, regardless of the consequences. It is also fairly accurate about some of the questions an analyst asks, some of the thing...

"Spellbound," Alfred Hitchcock's surprisingly disappointing thriller about psychoanalysis, is worth seeing, but hardly more…. I felt that the makers of the film had succeeded in using practically none of the movie possibilities of a psychoanalytic story, even those of the simplest melodrama; and that an elaborate, none-too-interesting murder mystery, though stoutly moored to the unconscious, merely cheapened and got in the way of any possible psychological interest. To quite an e...

As a study of psychoanalytic procedure, "Spellbound," the latest creation of Old Master Hitchcock, wouldn't merit a footnote in Freud. But when the film stops trying to be esoteric and abandons arcane mumbling for good, rousing melodrama, it moves along in the manner to which Hitchcock has accustomed us. I don't think anybody could take seriously the proposition, advanced in "Spellbound," that an amnesia victim could install himself with no trouble whatever as a sub...