See What They Do to You

How Jonathan Demme and Neil Young made a film about a concert attended by spirits

"...Stop Making Sense with the Talking Heads and Storefront Hitchcock with Robyn Hitchcock, in addition to filming scads of..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sam Peckinpah's Legendary Westerns Collection

"...Warner Home Video, $59.95 Alfred Hitchcock might have treated his actors like cattle, but it..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

'Between You and Me'

The Arthouse exhibition 'Between You and Me' uses video to explore intimate space in the artistic context

"...Plumb, Christoph Migone, Douglas Ross, Marit Følstad, and Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock...."

March 25, 2005 Arts Review by Jacqueline May

My SXSW

Music fest diary

"...are fine with being chosen) and contact me at www.robynhitchcock.com – the very Reverend Hitchcock...."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature by Robyn Hitchcock

Wednesday Picks

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...is an obsession waiting to happen. – Robert GabrielROBYN HITCHCOCK8pm, Emo's Main Last year, you couldn't reach up and..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

Bad Education

Almodóvar delivers the finest movie of his career: a film noir melodrama that maybe should be called film sanguine.

"...American noir trappings of the likes of Wilder and Hitchcock. The comedy is Almodóvar's own, but the director's noir..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Manchurian Candidate

Is it Gulf War syndrome or justified paranoia? The Manchurian Candidate thrills again.

"...a few cameos by musicians as diverse as Robyn Hitchcock and Fab 5 Freddy.) "It ain’t me, I ain’t..."

July 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Thunderbirds

A TV show from the Sixties that starred marionettes gets the live-action treatment … or does it?

"...and the marginally less irritating Space: 1999 (featuring a post-Hitchcock, pre-Oscar Martin Landau), knew what kids wanted, that being..."

July 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Slipping-Down Life

Lili Taylor and Guy Pearce star in this adaptation of an Anne Tyler story that was filmed in Austin several summers ago.

"...by the like of Joe Henry, Ron Sexsmith, Robyn Hitchcock, the Flat Duo Jets, and Glover Gill. A Slipping-Down..."

May 28, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Love Object

A shy office drone orders a life-sized plastic doll off the Internet, to predictably disastrous results.

"...episodes of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents in its story of a twentysomething schlemiel and..."

May 7, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...Robyn Hitchcock..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Unrelentingly Hostile

Three decades later, 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' is still about everyday evil. In 1977, two UT grad students explained.

"...of Val Lewton -- as well as to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho -- George Romero's Night of the Living Dead..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Unrelentingly Hostile: Editor's Cut

This is an extended version of the story that ran in the print edition.

"...of Val Lewton -- as well as to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho -- George Romero's Night of the Living Dead..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Finding Nemo

We're happy sweet, funny Nemo is back onscreen – 3-D or no.

"...kids and adults alike. A pair of off-the-cuff (off-the-fin?) Hitchcock references, a trio of 12-stepping Aussie sharks, and Willem..."

May 30, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Phone Booth

"...God Told Me To) to be a project that Hitchcock had long desired to develop. However, it took Cohen..."

April 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cat and Mouse, Confined to a Kiosk

Director Joel Schumacher discusses his new thriller, Phone Booth.

"...he did mention that he had talked to Alfred Hitchcock about this idea, so it's been around for a..."

April 4, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Core

"...that might have been meant as an homage to Hitchcock, but instead plays flat and silly). With the bulging..."

March 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Far From Heaven

"...along the lines of Gus Van Sant's remake of Hitchcock's Psycho, Haynes (who also scripted Far From Heaven) imbues..."

Nov. 21, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mr. Demme's Holiday

Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme takes a trip to the city of lights and of love, of Tati and Truffaut, in his latest, The Truth About Charlie.

"...effort to try to capture Stanley Donen's incredibly elegant Hitchcockian thing from Charade. This is completely hand-held, ragged, New-Wave..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

One Hour Photo

"...borrows a page from the unsatisfying psycho-babble ending of Hitchcock's Psycho. One Hour Photo makes us look forward to..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Enigma

"...on the Allied convoys. There's an unmistakable hint of Hitchcock in Apted's film (much of it comes from Tom..."

May 10, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Murder by Numbers

"...nuts to even attempt a fusion of icy, cerebral Hitchcock homage with the emotional and stylistic floridness of Se7en..."

April 19, 2002 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Resident Evil

Wild, senseless, sexy adaptation of the popular zombie shoot-'em-up video game

"...to Jovovich's introductory sequence, which manages to reference both Hitchcock and Argento in the same shot! (I don't have..."

March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Devil's Backbone

Set in a crumbling boys' school/orphanage/fallout shelter during the Spanish Civil War, the lost boys of this haunting film contend with a vengeful ghost as well as the more worldly traumas of war, greed, and abandonment.

"...Luppi, Iñigo Garces, Fernando Tielve and Junio Valverde. Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut were an unlikely pair – the..."

March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Man Who Wasn't There

The story is rife with the Coens' ripe ambivalence, a black seriocomic opera of fouled-up American dreams, and a meditation on ambivalence that is itself often as ambiguous as the emotional meanderings of its protagonist, a small-town barber. The film's black-and-white image processing is stunning.

"...Rosa, California, which fans of Thornton Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock will recognize as home base to Shadow of a..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Man of Character

State and Main star William H. Macy talks about his iconic position as America's indie darling, the state of indie filmmaking today, and what on earth Gus Van Sant was thinking.

"...Arbogast in Gus Van Sant's bizarrely unfulfilling remake of Hitchcock's Psycho; family-man-cum-superhero the Shoveler in Mystery Men (in which..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Watcher

"...watcher vs. the watched” motif that permeated much of Hitchcock's work. Bad move. The Watcher doesn't warrant mention in..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Notorious

"...Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains. Bergman..."

Aug. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

After a Fashion

All that Stephen Allows.

"...in thrillers and mysteries, and will be followed by Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, a monument in costume design,..."

June 9, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Instant Classic

Paramount Theatre's Summer 2000 Series

"...D: Alfred Hitchcock; with James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter,..."

May 19, 2000 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

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