Film

Maestros of Suspense: Jack Sullivan Talks About the Role of Music in Alfred Hitchcock’s Films

The undisputed “master of suspense,” Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) was an iconic film director and producer of over 50 movies, including…

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Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies

This is the latest offering from Richard Schickel, a renowned film critic who probably knows more—and writes with greater incision—about…

1 month ago

The Cinema of Federico Fellini

Everything you ever wanted to know about Federico Fellini’s film history is in Peter Bondanella’s exhaustive and scholarly treatment of…

2 months ago

Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light

In the years following Alfred Hitchcock’s death in 1980, an image of him as a dark, vindictive, and lecherous man…

3 months ago

Stardom Italian Style

While Marcia Landy, author and Distinguished Professor of English/Film Studies, offers an erudite and meticulous examination of the phenomenon known…

3 months ago

The History of Italian Cinema

Can one ever forget the astonishment of reading a great piece of literature or seeing an extraordinary film for the…

4 months ago

Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too Much

When Alfred Hitchcock, the British Labour Party, and Margaret Thatcher are all mentioned on the same page—and it’s the first…

8 months ago

Charlie Chaplin Interviews

His autobiography, filled with rank name-dropping, is almost unreadable. The 1992 biopic, despite a fine performance by Robert Downey, Jr.,…

9 months ago

The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder

David Thomson’s The Moment of Psycho is a foray into the black-and-white imagination of Alfred Hitchcock’s most famous film. While…

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Charlie Chaplin

John McCabe’s insightful biography of Charlie Chaplin is a scholarly work, which will easily engage both young and old. McCabe…

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