Maxx McGathey of Gramps the Vamp scores silent horror films, including Nosferatu and The Man Who Laughs, which opens the Music Box of Horrors—and whose disfigured hero inspired the Joker.
Tag: Alfred Hitchcock
Movie Tuesday: Adventures in psychotherapy
Five films at the intersection of cinematic art and psychotherapeutic theory
Movie Tuesday: Superior sequels and remakes
Five films that achieve the rare cinematic feat of improving upon their predecessors.
Movie Tuesday: Hollywood during the late-60s transition
Five films that span the old studio system, the ushering in of innovation, and the road to the 70s
Movie Tuesday: 19th-century women
Five films that address the position of women and sexual mores of a bygone era.
Nightmares and Nightcaps desperately can’t figure itself out
Based on stories by John Collier, Nightmares and Nightcaps desperately can’t figure itself out.
Getting dizzy at Ravinia when the CSO plays Bernard Herrmann’s Vertigo score
The composer gave Hitchcock’s films much of their menace.
FilmStruck’s ‘Early Hitchcock’ shows the master of suspense mastering suspense
The streaming-video channel FilmStruck collects early films by the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock.
Nautical thrillers and mysteries set sail on FilmStruck this week
The streaming-cinema channel presents features by Antonioni, Arthur Penn, and Rene Clement.
Five gay films from an era when queer themes were invisible in Hollywood
Films by Hitchcock, Cukor, and Minnelli turn up on this list of classics from before the Stonewall era.
The Commuter is the first great movie of 2018
The latest from Non-Stop director Jaume Collet-Serra is an inspired Hitchcockian thriller.
How to kick drugs while also surviving a hostage crisis, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Fall movies on the march, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Andrew Bujaski gets Results, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
Inside Out This week we take a look at Results, the latest comedy from indie stalwart Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation, Computer Chess), and Inside Out, the latest Pixar animation. Guess which one is going to make a yawning ass-load of money this weekend? From Mayerling to Sarajevo Check out the new issue […]