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Alfred Hitchcock

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    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:

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    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.

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    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 >>

  • Film

    November 2, 2011

    Deserved Second Act for Paul Newman's Sometimes a Great Notion

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Celebrity Photos From Chiller Theatre!

    Me and the always fierce Pam Grier. She lit up the place like a Roman candle.​Today's column is all about my interactions with various Oscar winners, ex child stars, sitcom survivors, and other culty icons at the Chiller Theatre autography show in New Jersey the other night. Well, here's a go ... More >>

  • Film

    October 19, 2011

    Score! Film Forum Reminds Us Who Put More Psycho in Psycho

    Me and the always fierce Pam Grier. She lit up the place like a Roman candle.​Today's column is all about my interactions with various Oscar winners, ex child stars, sitcom survivors, and other culty icons at the Chiller Theatre autography show in New Jersey the other night. Well, here's a go ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 19, 2011

    North By Northwest

    Me and the always fierce Pam Grier. She lit up the place like a Roman candle.​Today's column is all about my interactions with various Oscar winners, ex child stars, sitcom survivors, and other culty icons at the Chiller Theatre autography show in New Jersey the other night. Well, here's a go ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 19, 2011

    The Trouble With Harry

    Me and the always fierce Pam Grier. She lit up the place like a Roman candle.​Today's column is all about my interactions with various Oscar winners, ex child stars, sitcom survivors, and other culty icons at the Chiller Theatre autography show in New Jersey the other night. Well, here's a go ... More >>

  • Film

    September 7, 2011

    Fall Arts: Film Picks

    Me and the always fierce Pam Grier. She lit up the place like a Roman candle.​Today's column is all about my interactions with various Oscar winners, ex child stars, sitcom survivors, and other culty icons at the Chiller Theatre autography show in New Jersey the other night. Well, here's a go ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 22, 2011

    Dial M for Murder

    Me and the always fierce Pam Grier. She lit up the place like a Roman candle.​Today's column is all about my interactions with various Oscar winners, ex child stars, sitcom survivors, and other culty icons at the Chiller Theatre autography show in New Jersey the other night. Well, here's a go ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 8, 2011

    CUCKOO CA-CHOO!

    Have a picnic with Jack Nicholson

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    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 >>

  • Film

    October 27, 2010

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

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    Andrew Sarris Picks the Best Films of 1969

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 15, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 3 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris Every year about this time a large number of critics make up 10 best lists, an a smaller number write boring articles attacking 10 best lists. You do or you don't, I supp ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 11, 2010

    Dial M for Murder

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 15, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 3 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris Every year about this time a large number of critics make up 10 best lists, an a smaller number write boring articles attacking 10 best lists. You do or you don't, I supp ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    July 6, 2010

    North by Northwest

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 15, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 3 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris Every year about this time a large number of critics make up 10 best lists, an a smaller number write boring articles attacking 10 best lists. You do or you don't, I supp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    '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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    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 >>

  • Film

    June 1, 2010

    Double Take, Starring Hitchcock

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

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 27, 2010

    The Birds

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    '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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2009

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 11, 2009

    To Catch a Thief

    ​ 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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 4, 2009

    Suspicion

    ​ 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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 6, 2009

    Marnie

    ​ 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 >>

  • Film

    January 21, 2009

    The Lodger Forces Out A Remake of a Remake

    ​ 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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2008

    CMJ: Mr. Brainwash at the Fader Fort

    ​ 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 >>

  • Film

    September 3, 2008

    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

  • Voice Choices

    August 27, 2008

    The 39 Steps

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

  • Film

    August 12, 2008

    Chabrol and Rohmer Keep Doing What They Do Best

    Two French masters, still catching the wave

  • NYC Life

    July 11, 2006

    Friday 7/21

    Two French masters, still catching the wave

  • Theater

    December 13, 2005

    Shadow Plays

    Lights out!: Macabre tales that keep audiences in the dark

  • Film

    November 29, 2005

    Spellbound

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

  • Film

    December 7, 2004

    Film

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

  • Film

    November 23, 2004

    Another 10

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

  • Film

    December 30, 2003

    Staged Fright

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

  • Specials

    August 6, 2002

    Letters

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

  • News

    July 30, 2002

    On Being Called a Commie

    Red-Baiting in a World Without Reds

  • Film

    June 25, 2002

    Screen Test 2002

    World's Hardest Movie Quiz

  • NYC Life

    May 28, 2002

    Film

    World's Hardest Movie Quiz

  • NYC Life

    May 29, 2001

    Film

    Cinema Alfresco

  • Film

    May 9, 2000

    Sneaky Peeks

    Cinema Alfresco

  • Film

    January 18, 2000

    Out of Sight

    Cinema Alfresco

  • Long Island Voice

    October 26, 1999

    A bunch of slugs

    Cinema Alfresco

  • Film

    October 19, 1999

    City Limits

    Cinema Alfresco

  • Film

    April 6, 1999

    The Stunt Men

    Cinema Alfresco

  • Film

    January 12, 1999

    Idol Speculation

    Notes on Hypothetical Hollywood

  • Screens

    December 1, 1998

    Morbid Curiosity

    Christopher Reeve Makes Hitchcock Uplifting

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