Alfred Hitchcock Archives

WATCH FILMS AT HOME: Robert Tanitch reviews 4 films.

THE 39 STEPS (BBC iPlayer). I haven’t seen 39 Steps in years. Premiered in 1935, it holds up really well. It’s is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best thrillers, a perfect period spy story, fast-paced, susp ...

andrew 387 views 0 likes Mar 11, 2021

WATCH FILMS AT HOME with Cary Grant, Buster Keaton, Rudyard Kipling and War Poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Owen – reviewed by Robert Tanitch

NORTH BY NORTHWEST. (BBC iPlayer) is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best films, a comic thriller, with plenty of thrills and lots of sexual innuendo. A business executive is mistaken for a special agent an ...

andrew 770 views 0 likes Oct 9, 2020

A searing, though overloaded adaptation of William Nicholson’s play about a late-life marital breakdown

Hope Gap (playing in cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema from August 28, 2020) Cert. 12A, 100 mins. William Nicholson has had a long and successful career as a novelist and writer, with two Academy Awar ...

andrew 1407 views 0 likes Sep 29, 2020

A relentless bleak but riveting adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński’s celebrated 1965 novel.

The Painted Bird (released digitally and in selected cinemas nationwide [UK & Ireland] from 11 September 2020) Cert 18, 169 mins. Nothing will prepare you for Czech producer-writer-director Václav ...

andrew 924 views 0 likes Sep 23, 2020