Each decade seems to bring more and more films classified under the genre of thriller, especially as people now interpret them as erotic thrillers, psychological thrillers, and disaster thrillers. So there’s no way that I could peg every single one…
Rabbit rabbit — happy October. We’re feeling it here, as the weather has experienced an unexpected dip from warm and drowsy to biting cold. But we’ll go with it, because the sudden chill perfectly presages Halloween. And to kick off…
Inspired by a recent discussion over on Tumblr (shameless plug!) about Hitchcock’s Rope, I thought I’d make a list of some of my favorite long takes in cinema.
A couple of words about the long take: it’s a great director’s…
Dateline: Hollywood, 1946.
Master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock is at it again, this time with the story of high stakes espionage, Nazis run amuck in Brazil, enriched uranium, drug pushing in Bed-Stuy, multi-platinum album sales, and a mysterious death. The…
