Professor James Anders (Edward G. Robinson), a school teacher in Rio de Janeiro has retired after 30 years. Upon leaving he flies to New York City to visit his old childhood friend Mark (Adolfo Celi) a man with suspected ties to the underworld. The reunion isn’t for sentimental purposes, Anders […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! Today I’m talking about the black and white masterpiece by Alfred Hitchcock. If you don’t know who Hitchcock is then you’re missing out on some of the greatest films ever made. The sheer volume of his output is amazing. Some of his work includes such classics […]
PSYCHO (1960, Dir: Alfred Hitchcock) When the “Master of Suspense” set out to make this movie it was to be a modest, low budget thriller shot by the crew of his popular TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents. As with almost all of his projects, it soon became something much more […]
Ever since first seeing Touch of Evil (1958) it has been one of my favorite films. It is often cited as one of the last examples of film noir but that statement is partially incorrect because the term, while largely associated with the 40s/50s hard boiled crime films is not […]
There have been several important director/composer collaborations throughout cinema history and one of its most well established and unique was Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. For Psycho (1960), coined the “godfather of slasher films” by cineasts, Herrmann created a rapidly paced, macabre masterpiece of bright shrieking strings and brass cues […]