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The Good pick: Hitchcock film leads viewers 'North by Northwest' for a thrilling chase
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Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in “North by Northwest.”
If all you know of Alfred Hitchcock is the shower scene in “Psycho,” or the sadly dated avian attack sequences in “The Birds,” there is no better direction to head than “North by Northwest.” Based on an Oscar-nominated original screenplay by Ernest Lehman, it is the story of Roger Thornhill, an adman who gets kidnapped by spies who mistake him for a CIA agent. Thornhill is played by the peerlessly suave Cary Grant, enough reason to watch any movie, except maybe “Bringing Up Baby.” And “North by Northwest” includes two of Hitchcock’s most famous and enduring scenes: the first when a crop duster plane chases Thornhill through an empty cornfield; the second, in the film’s final moments, when Thornhill and Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint) cling for dear life to the faces of Mount Rushmore. Faster, louder suspense movies have been made since 1959, and certainly scarier ones ““ this is no “Paranormal Activity” ““ but there is still no other filmmaker as stylish as Hitchcock. “North by Northwest” will screen at the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art this Thursday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m.
Movie Review: “Wild Target”
Hitman comedies tend to be fairly morbid.
_POP PSYCHOLOGY: Untapped potential in children’s films_
Some intriguing news surfaced on Entertainment Weekly’s website Thursday, revealing that Elton John and Lady Gaga are collaborating on an original song.
More intriguing, though, by several notches on the scale, is what the song is for: “Gnomeo and Juliet,” an upcoming children’s animated film from Touchstone Pictures, which reimagines Shakespeare’s greatest love story with rival families of garden gnomes.
Oh how silly, you might say, but why should we care?
Cook by numbers
By most accounts ““ by my mom’s, at least ““ people cook a lot better than they used to.
_POP PSYCHOLOGY: ‘Glee’ plot pitches flat with theme episodes_
The magical thing about writing fiction, in any medium, is that you can make things up.
Despite its fabrication of Facebook’s origins, movie ‘The Social network’ is highly captivating
If I said I know Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, you would say I’m lying, and you would be right.