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“Lost” John Williams Score Makes CD Debut

from Cinematical 45 minutes ago

…Jaws, Superman and Saving Private Ryan. He even has scored more obscure items like Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye and Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot. He has won five Oscars and has been nominated — no kidding — more than 40 times. Now, just imagine that…

Out-takes from a film critic's reel life

from Irish Times 2 hours, 8 minutes ago

…anyway”. You might assume that It’s Only a Movie’s title is a slight misquote of a famously dismissive remark made by Alfred Hitchcock to Ingrid Bergman but, in fact, it references the tagline to Wes Craven’s infamous 1972 bloodbath, The Last House on the…

Does ‘Avatar’ Soar Past Stereotypes Or Does it Peddle Ye Olde White Savior Stuff?

from NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund 8 hours, 47 minutes ago

…pterodactyls through floating fjords. Different directors express different worldviews in their films. Suspense master Alfred Hitchcock’s repeated message became: ordinary people are not safe anywhere (kind of like my grandmother’s credo). Cameron’s films—The…

Best Doris Day Movies

from Associated Content 9 hours, 12 minutes ago

…Knew Too Much In addition to co-starring with the top actors, Doris was in demand by top directors, too. This was a film Alfred Hitchcock directed. Doris played a famous singer, and she and screen husband James Stewart got involved in an international mystery,…

100 complaints over Blackburn priest’s huge flock of pigeons

from The Blackburn Citizen 15 hours, 1 minute ago

…Close, Blackburn, have complained to the council. Joyce Sandford, 72, of Ferrier Close, said: “It’s like something out of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. “You’ll be sitting in your living room and all of a sudden it’ll go dark. “You think ‘what on earth is…