From boston.com:
It’s a 1924 English silent film, “The White Shadow,” which was long thought lost. More accurately, it’s the film’s three first reels, lasting a little more than 40 minutes (the remainder of the film remains missing). The footage was found last year at the New Zealand Film Archive in canisters marked “(Twin Sisters) with Betty Compson.”
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2012 James Ament From the San Francisco Chronicle, Long-Lost Cornell Woolrich story republished:
A long-lost Cornell Woolrich story, with a rhyming title that seems destined to become a catch-phrase, is being published this week.
The Strand Magazine will reintroduce a short thriller by the author whose fiction was the source for such classic films as Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” and Francois Truffaut’s “The Bride Wore Black.” The name of the new piece features the common slang for “detective” in the 1930s: “Never Kick a Dick.”
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2011 James Ament From listverse, the top 10 interesting facts about Psycho, a movie that about scared me to death when I saw it in the theater:
It was in 1960 that Alfred Hitchcock, master of suspense, released Psycho – based on the popular novel by Robert Bloch. All over the world it frightened the heck out of people, and subsequently went on to be considered one of the greatest horror films of all time. Naturally, a film of such caliber does not go through production without some interesting stories to tell. Here are some of the best. (Beware of spoilers.)
See the list at the link.
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2011 James Ament Alfred Hitchock died April 29, 1980. A comprehensive look at the director—”destined to make sublime film thrillers”— by Ken Mogg, author of The Alfred Hitchcock Story, can be found at senses of cinema.
Hitchcock supposedly coined, or at least popularized the idea of the “MacGuffin,” a plot element in fiction or films that drives the action. In 1939 Hitchcock said, ”[We] have a name in the studio, and we call it the ‘MacGuffin’. It is the mechanical element that usually crops up in any story. In crook stories it is almost always the necklace and in spy stories it is most always the papers.” Check out a list of the Top 10 MacGiffins in films.
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