Alfred Hitchcock

Karen Black Film Retrospective, Sanctioned By Her

Lovable kook and daring actress Karen Black is ill, which makes Nitehawk Cinema's series homaging her even more eye-crossingly special.

STEREOSCOPIC HITCHCOCK

Dial M for Murder 
Returns in 3D

Me As Hobbits, Hitchcock, And The Queen

With the Oscars behind us, let me remind you of Julia Minamata's illustrations which inserted me into two of the nominated films--The Hobbit and Hitchcock--plus one about international current events. Yes, they were from the year-end issue, but I need some attention right now, so I'm finally sharin ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Sacha Gervasi on Mr. and Mrs. Hitch

The Director of Anvil! seeks out the woman behind the Master of Suspense

The Trouble with Hitchcock

Shouldn't the making of Psycho be more interesting?

"There Was a Young Man From Nantucket"

Before I finish that piece of perverse verse, let me give credit where credit is due: It was said by legendary film director and letch Alfred Hitchcock (or someone playing him, anyway), who clearly had as much of a mind for naughty rhyme schemes as he did for diabolical murder plots. Hitch (portra ... More >>

Two October Film Series Take on Life in the Last Days

Get your tickets for the end-times

Grace Kelly: They Don't Come Cooler

A welcome tribute to the '50s' other great Hollywood Kelly

I Confess

Family Plot

Who's Playing Whom In The Hitchcock Movie?

Good evening. There's a biopic being done about the portly, macabre genius who directed one-word classics like Psycho, Vertigo, Rebecca, Suspicion, Rope, and Spellbound, among other films. So which stars are dropping by for a paycheck? Here's the answer to the mystery:

Guess Who Went To The Continental Baths?

The Continental Baths was the steamy 1970s gay sex haven at the Ansonia Hotel, which came complete with a performance space for rising stars like Bette Midler to entertain the toweled gays in between orgasms.

New Jersey Children Are Being Armed With Umbrellas to Protect Against Seagull Shitstorm

A townhouse development in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, is facing an unprecedented scourge from above. Thousands of seagulls have appeared, Alfred Hitchcock-like, except that instead of terrorizing citizens and pecking them to death, they are terrorizing them with their poop. It's gotten so bad that ch ... More >>

North By Northwest

The Trouble With Harry

Fall Arts: Film Picks

Dial M for Murder

CUCKOO CA-CHOO!

Have a picnic with Jack Nicholson

Alfred Hitchcock: Hanging with Hitch at the St. Regis

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 22, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 25 film in focus By Andrew Sarris Alfred Hitchcock came to town recently to pick up an honorary degree at Columbia University to the unalloyed delight of resident Hitchcockians at the Film Division of the ... More >>

Milestones for the Masters of Suspense: Psycho's 50th, Inspector Bellamy

Dial M for Murder

North by Northwest

'Psycho' Is 50: Remembering Its Impact, and the Andrew Sarris Review

​It was 50 years ago this week, Alfred Hitchcock taught the world to shriek. Sunday morning June 16, 1960, Psycho opened at two midtown Manhattan theaters, with crowds already lined up on Broadway. Was it the insolently blunt title? Hitchcock's hilarious first-person trailer ("and here we ha ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Woody Allen's Jazz Evangelism, Indie Rockstars Invade Brooklyn's Manhattan Inn, Joell Ortiz vs. Gentrification, and More

Play it again, Sam: Allen and the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band. Photo by John Rogers.​In this week's Village Voice, Stacey Anderson snags an exclusive interview with none other than Woody Allen as, clarinet in hand, the director talks jazz and defends one of America's disappearing art form ... More >>

Double Take, Starring Hitchcock

Master of Suspense stars in Cold War/pop culture/essay film mashup

Happy Hour at L'Asso in Nolita: 2 Slices 1 Glass of Wine or Beer = $6 Happiness

lassonyc/flickrPizza makes every hour happy.​What good is a happy hour if your stomach isn't sufficiently lined for you to truly get your money's worth? L'Asso has you covered from Monday to Thursday with a 4-7 p.m. happy hour special of two slices of pizza margherita plus one glass of house r ... More >>

The Birds

Heartwarming Holiday Cheer: Pick Up Your Kid or Else!

A private Seventh Day Adventist school in our neighborhood spread the warmth of the holiday season with this sign: ​ Note item number two: "The school building will be closed at 12:30 P.M. Students not picked up by then will be left at the 88th Precinct" This sounded like rather extreme pun ... More >>

'Woman's Day' Goes Wild for Halloween

Mark Wells via flickr.com​Woman's Day, the magazine my mother used to pick up at the supermarket and clip coupons from, has broken out of its staid mode for Halloween. Recently posted online were a gallery of amazing carved pumpkins, some of them actually frightening, like the one at the left ... More >>

Bravo Confirms in a Backhand Sort of Way that Top Cheftestants Are Chosen Partly for their Tattoos

​ What is that tatt on the left--the love child of Alfred Hitchcock and a bulldog? Thanks to Eater for pointing out a slide show on Bravo's Top Chef website. It features an astonishing 57 pictures of the tattoos of Season 6 contestants, inadvertently demonstrating that, in a desperate attempt ... More >>

To Catch a Thief

Suspicion

Marnie

The 39 Steps and Shoot the Piano Player Blow Up Conventions of the Comic Thriller

Hitchcock and Truffaut's men on the run, twenty years apart

The 39 Steps

Friday 7/21

Spellbound

From a filmmaking fan, an appreciation of the master of suspense's show business

Another 10

Staged Fright

Dial E for Experiment: Hitch crafts a master's maze in his sole foray into 3-D filmmaking

Letters

Screen Test 2002

World's Hardest Movie Quiz

Film

Film

Cinema Alfresco

Sneaky Peeks

Out of Sight

A bunch of slugs

City Limits

The Stunt Men

Idol Speculation

Notes on Hypothetical Hollywood

Morbid Curiosity

Christopher Reeve Makes Hitchcock Uplifting