Alfred Hitchcock

Digital technology rescues filmgoers in new 3-D film

charlotte.com     10 hrs ago   1 related          

Although they get a lot of hype, movies shot in 3-D have historically been a bit of a headache. You'd put on a pair of flimsy cardboard glasses with red-and-blue gel lenses that looked like they might rip during a strong...                

Lennon sketches fetch £25,000

msn.com     14 hrs ago   1 related          

A signed exhibition catalogue by John Lennon containing risqué sketches he drew of his wife Yoko Ono in the late 1960s have fetched £25,000 at auction. Lennon signed the catalogue for his exhibition entitled the Bag One for...                

These Parakeets Are Serious, Don't Call Them Shirley

londonist.com     17 hrs ago   3 related          

Barely a week after a vicious gang attacked police officers in Croydon, we bring you another sobering tale of needless violence from the blighted borough: an unruly mob has caused £10,000 worth of damage to a 150-year old...                

Movie Review: Vantage Point

blogcritics.org     20 hrs ago          

Déjà vu doodoo... Formulated and orchestrated with all the stylistic panache of a freshman Psych 101 term paper, Vantage Point enumerates Suspense For Dummies diagramming, Cliff-noting shortcuts on its depreciated way to...                

Ask Parky: never work with animals or waxworks

guardian.co.uk     23 hrs ago          

Has there ever been an animal equivalent of an Oscar? Phila, the wondrously photogenic dog in Time to Die (which I saw at the Edinburgh Film Festival), would be a shoo-in. But Tokaj has already missed out on this year's Palm...                

Our Forgotten Books Thus Far

pattinase.blogspot.com     yesterday          

Because people are beginning to ask if certain books have been done, I thought I'd post the first thirteen weeks on here. Burke: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Horace McCoyBill Crider: The Assistant (Malamud), Passing Strange (SaleSara...                

The really Wilde show: Matthew Bourne take on Dorian Gray

independent.co.uk     yesterday   1 related          

"I'm actually quite scared of Dorian Gray," says Matthew Bourne, whose new dance-theatre version of Oscar Wilde's masterpiece is tipped as the hot ticket at this year's Edinburgh International Festival. Surely it's not the...                

Due North: The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams

independent.co.uk     yesterday          

Are Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins trying to embarrass the Edinburgh Film Festival? Its patron and former artistic director, respectively, they are starting their own festival on the dates that were this year abandoned by the...                

COMPASS CRASHER GETS BOOT

nypost.com     yesterday          

A MEMORIAL service for the longtime lover of Alfred Hitchcock star Farley Granger had a Hitchcockian twist itself. As friends and family mourned the passing of Emmy-winning producer Robert Calhoun at a private get-together at...                

Slightly Inhuman: Edward Hopper

mentalfloss.com     yesterday          

In honor of his 126th birthday, and at the request of reader Corrine, today’s “Feel Art Again” post features Edward Hopper and his 1929 painting “Chop Suey,” one of his many scenes of city life. 1. Though he’s known for city...                

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