People may think that in the director category, Ben Affleck got robbed by the Academy this year, but consider this: Alfred Hitchcock never won a competitive Oscar. Actor Peter O'Toole was nominated eight times but never took home the award. If that doesn't prove the Academy doesn't vote with posterity in mind, I don't know what could. ...
03:33 PM, Feb 23, 2013
The actress was worried after tackling the iconic 'Psycho' shower scene while shooting for a new film. ...
12:04 PM, Jan 30, 2013
The 17th International Film Festival of Kerala began with the public screening of Hitchcock's silent film 'The Ring'. ...
04:36 PM, Dec 08, 2012
One of Hollywood's greatest directors returns to the big screen in 'Hitchcock' Anthony Hopkins stars as the famed thrillmaker in this story about the making of Hitchcock's most successful film. ...
03:39 PM, Nov 28, 2012
The actress was not a fan of the horror filmmaker when she was considered for a role in his 1972 thriller 'Frenzy'. ...
01:01 PM, Nov 28, 2012
Actress Scarlett Johansson was terrified of her 'Hitchcock' co-star Anthony Hopkins because of his work on 'Silence of the Lambs'. The 28-year-old actress plays Janet Leigh to his Alfred Hitchcock in the forthcoming biopic and said that she is still scared of him because of his role as serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 thriller, reported Showbizspy. ...
11:24 AM, Nov 26, 2012
Los Angeles: Scarlett Johansson, who stars in a biopic of Alfred Hitchcock, found recreating the shower scene from 'Psycho' the most difficult. The 27-year-old star plays Janet Leigh, the star of 'Psycho' in 'Hitchcock', being directed by Sacha Gervasi. "We only had the luxury to shoot the scene for a day, and everybody was feeling very nervous because it involved water and nobody wants the actor to get wet. They...
10:35 AM, Nov 08, 2012
The first trailer of the highly-anticipated biopic titled 'Hitchcock' starring Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock, fellow Oscar winner Helen Mirren as his wife, and Scarlett Johansson as an actress is out. While the movie opens next month, here's a look. ...
11:56 PM, Oct 18, 2012
In the words of Alfred Hitchcock, 'Blondes make the best victims'. But while the great British director's preference for blondes has been documented, new film 'The Girl' narrows in on one particular obsession - actress Tippi Hedren, whom he handpicked to star in his 1960s movies 'The Birds' and 'Marnie'. The film, premiering on Saturday on U.S. cable channel HBO, offers a cinematic tale of Hedren's version of how Hitchcock,...
01:16 PM, Oct 18, 2012
New Delhi: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Biel starrer Hitchcock is expected to hit the screens next month. The movie is directed by Sacha Gervasi. Watch the trailer of Hitchcock here... ...
01:44 PM, Oct 11, 2012
London: Tippi Hedren, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's horror film 'The Birds', says the legendary director was evil and ruined her acting career after she refused his sexual advances. The 82-year-old, whose troubled relationship with the director is the subject of a television drama, says she would have been a rich woman if sexual harassment laws existed in 1963 when 'The Birds' was filmed, the Daily Mail reported. "I think...
07:21 PM, Aug 03, 2012
Beverly Hills: Tippi Hedren said she survived working with Alfred Hitchcock, but her career was another matter. Hedren's experience on the famed British film director's The Birds and Marnie is dramatised in the new HBO movie, The Girl. Hitchcock is portrayed as obsessed with Hedren and vindictive when the actress rejects his advances. The director "ruined my career, but he didn't ruin my life," Hedren told a meeting of the...
12:52 PM, Aug 02, 2012
New York: Alfred Hitchcock has finally usurped Orson Welles. Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' took the top spot in the 10 greatest-movies-ever list compiled by Sight and Sound, ending the 50-year-long run for Welles' 'Citizen Kane'. The magazine, published by the British Film Institute, surveys international film critics every decade. 'Citizen Kane' slid to second, making way for Hitchcock's 1958 psychological drama starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. The list also includes a...
11:34 AM, Aug 02, 2012
Los Angeles: Suspense master Alfred Hitchcock died in 1980 but that hasn't stopped him from adding a new title to his filmography. 'The White Shadow', produced in 1924, is the earliest known film bearing his creative touch. The long lost film was unveiled to audiences on Thursday night at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills with a screening attended by the stars of two Hitchcock...
07:57 PM, Sep 25, 2011
New Zealand: Some rare footage from Alfred Hitchcock's first film has been uncovered in New Zealand. 'The White Shadow' was made in 1923 when Hitchcock was 24. It is a silent movie in black and white. Three reels were found among some unidentified American nitrate prints, which were left at the New Zealand Film Archive in 1989. Hitchcock was writer, assistant director, editor and production designer on the drama, which...
08:42 PM, Aug 03, 2011
There are a number of places online where you can watch movies for free, legally, including YouTube. Here are our 10 recommended films, available on YouTube, that you can watch this weekend right here on this page. A heady mix of action, comedy, suspense, drama and documentaries. Turn on the speakers, stretch your legs and get set for your very own weekend film festival. ...
01:37 PM, Feb 05, 2011
