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Lily James and Armie Hammer to star in Rebecca movie remake

Published: 15 Nov 2018
3 out of 5 stars.

Homecoming review – Julia Roberts' old-fashioned mystery has hints of Hitchcock
3 out of 5 stars.

Published: 2 Nov 2018

Don't move! The single-location movies that ramp up the tension on screen

As the emergency services thriller The Guilty shows, movie-makers know how to exploit the nerve-shredding potential of a claustrophobic setting

Published: 30 Oct 2018

Retired teacher’s rare film posters stand to make a fortune at auction

Derek East amassed an astonishing range of movie memorabilia

Published: 29 Jul 2018
5 out of 5 stars.

Vertigo review – still spinning its dizzying magic
5 out of 5 stars.

Hitchcock’s masterpiece, rereleased after 60 years, combines his flair for psychological shocks with a genius for dapper stylishness

Published: 12 Jul 2018

Vertigo is not the last word in misogyny, but a feminist deconstruction of it

While some critics see the film, released 60 years ago, as proof of Hitchcock’s sexist creepiness, a closer look reveals strong women and weak men were often at the heart of his work

Published: 28 Jun 2018

Theatrical dames who set up the actors’ union Equity

Letters: Former union president Harry Landis on the roles played by Dame May Whitty and Dame Sybil Thiorndike

Published: 16 Apr 2018

Published: 16 Apr 2018
My favourite film decade From Godzilla to Some Like it Hot – why the 1950s is my favourite film decade

The decade that invented teenagers and giant radioactive lizards also gave birth to the melodramas of Douglas Sirk, the wry satires of Billy Wilder and saw Hitchcock at his finest

Published: 5 Apr 2018

The end of the auteur?

Auteur theory says a director’s vision is present in every frame. What happens if they turn out to be a liability?

Published: 23 Mar 2018

Sex, jealousy and gender: Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca 80 years on

Du Maurier’s bestselling novel reveals much about the author’s fluid sexuality – her ‘Venetian tendencies’ – and about being a boy stuck in the wrong body, writes Olivia Laing

Published: 23 Feb 2018

A brush with greatness The day Alfred Hitchcock spoke one word to me (and the 40 years it took me to understand it)

It’s summer 1966 in Cambridge, and Christopher Frayling’s Q&A with the great director takes an enigmatic twist

Published: 7 Jan 2018
Hitchcock, Hepburn and Dirty Harry: vintage movie posters – in pictures

Produced for classic films such as Psycho, Roman Holiday and The Italian Job, these rare original Hollywood posters are now all worth a pretty penny as cultural antiques

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Published: 2 Jan 2018

Sex, sadism, blackmail: Nico Muhly on why Hitchcock's Marnie is an explosive heroine

Brittle, bullied and blackmailed into marriage, Marnie inspired a Hitchcock classic and now a new opera. Its composer Nico Muhly unravels a twisted tale of childhood trauma, toxic guilt – and a woman who is both hunter and hunted

Published: 10 Nov 2017
2 out of 5 stars.

78/52 review – misfiring documentary on Hitchcock’s Psycho
2 out of 5 stars.

There’s too much detail, not enough thought, in this analysis of the infamous shower scene

Published: 5 Nov 2017

3 out of 5 stars.

78/52 review – Hitchcock's Psycho shower scene gets an expert autopsy
3 out of 5 stars.

An array of film-makers and writers line up to praise the skill of the iconic sequence – but leave the trickier issues frustratingly unaddressed

Published: 13 Oct 2017

From the Guardian archive The real horror of Hitchcock – archive, 1986

27 September 1986 A new BBC profile of Alfred Hitchcock shows that the master of horror was also a cruel clown

Published: 27 Sep 2017
Mothers of invention: why Hollywood always returns to mum-horror

Darren Aronofsky taps into the maternal instinct to inspire fear in his latest movie, Mother! – and he’s certainly not the first film-maker to do so

Published: 16 Sep 2017

Stage direction: North By Northwest takes Hollywood to the theatre

A theatrical adaptation of the Hitchcock classic finds clever ways to rework film techniques – and is the latest example of how the screen is influencing the stage

Published: 2 Aug 2017

Martin Landau - a life in pictures

Best known for his work with Tim Burton and Woody Allen, as well as the Mission: Impossible TV show, Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau has died aged 89

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Published: 8:55 AM
Martin Landau, star of Ed Wood and Crimes and Misdemeanors, dies aged 89

Veteran actor won a best supporting actor Oscar playing horror icon Bela Lugosi after a late-life career revival

Published: 2:20 AM

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