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18 days ago

North by Northwest: Hitchcock’s funniest, most ambitious film ⊕⊕

Every scene in Cary Grant’s mistaken identity caper is pure absurdity – including that famous cornfield chase. You can’t look away

Imagine: you’re a handsome and relatively successful ad man in idylli…

51 days ago

3 months ago

Alfred Hitchcock bombshell Kim Novak, 92, reveals her mother tried to abort her pregnancy with knitting needles and 'suffocate her with a pillow' as tell-all documentary details her poverty-stricken upbringing

The film, which premiered last night in advance of the 92-year-old actress getting a lifetime achievement Golden Lion today, tells of her upbringing in Depression-era Chicago.

Kim Novak’s Vertigo review – the dizzying demands on Hitchcock’s leading lady

Venice film festival
An intensely personal interview of the 92-year-old Hollywood star delivers showstopping moments for fans of the golden age of movies

At 92 years old, Hollywood movie star Kim Novak…

Late Fame review – Willem Dafoe is a natural poet in a slice-of-life New York fable

Venice film festival
A postman’s forgotten poetry collection finds new admirers in a tale of how the mystique of the past filters to the present

Ed Saxberger is an amiable, unassuming New Yorker on the…

‘I held on to what’s important’: Kim Novak on Hitchcock, Trump and her Venice lifetime achievement award

One of the stars of Hollywood’s golden era, 92-year-old says prize as much about her refusal to be controlled as her on-screen performances

She was the No 1 box office star in the late 50s, but for de…

5 months ago

Mel Brooks turns 99: the comedy icon’s best films – ranked!

Following the announcement of a sequel to Spaceballs, we assess the film-maker’s funniest movies, from the Hitchcock spoof High Anxiety to the impeccable Young Frankenstein

“It’s good to be the king.”…

6 months ago

Mountainhead review – tech bros face off in Jesse Armstrong’s post-Succession uber-wealth satire

Weapons-grade zingers come thick and fast in this chamber piece about four plutocrats on a weekend in a lodge that goes awry when the planet descends into chaos

Jesse Armstrong has returned with what …

A Private Life review – Jodie Foster is a sleuthing shrink in French-language Hitchcockian mystery

Cannes film festival
Foster plays a psychoanalyst who suspects her client may not have killed herself, and sets out to investigate with ex-husband Daniel Auteuil

Rebecca Zlotowski serves up a genial, p…

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