Alfred Hitchcock Archives

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 ...

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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 944 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 822 views 0 likes Sep 23, 2020

FILMS TO WATCH AT HOME: Elizabeth is Missing, Lucian Freud, One Touch of Venus and Suspicion – reviewed by Robert Tanitch

ELIZABETH IS MISSING (Acorn). Emma Healey’s novel about dementia has been adapted for television. Elderly Maud’s best friend has gone missing. Her sister went missing in 1949. The two incidents get mi ...

andrew 322 views 0 likes Aug 27, 2020