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Complete alphabetical listing of directory topics: Vertigo
A funny valentine
Whenever I meet a woman who is beautiful but uneasy with it -- and there are a lot of them -- I get that strange Novak feeling.
The look of love
In "Vertigo" we fall for Kim Novak at the same time James Stewart does.
"Vertigo" by W.G. Sebald
The tale of a strange quest, haunted by the ghost of Kafka, from one of the oddest great writers around.
Sharps & Flats
Swedish popsters Cinnamon have the singer, the songs and the sheen. They're like the Cardigans -- for smart people.
A chat with Mr. Oscar
Damien Bona talks about "American Beauty" and Warren Beatty, "Titanic" and Roberto Benigni and more than 70 years of the academy's hits and misses.
Window washers
Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz bring the reds, whites, blacks and blues back into Hitchcock's nimble masterpiece about the burden of perception.
"Rear Window"
James Stewart loves watching the defectives in Hitchcock's restored peeping-tom thriller.
Master of imperfection
Hitchcock may have been a master of many things, but his goofy endings were like a dead cockroach found at the bottom of a near-perfect cinematic sundae.
The Savage id
Camille Paglia talks about why Hitchcock has more to do with Madonna than he does with pomo theorists.
Lights, cameo, action!
Alfred Hitchcock's first rule of directing was to treat actors like cattle -- and even in his own cameos, he was no sacred cow. Complete alphabetical listing of directory topics: |
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