“People on Sunday” (1930) is a historically fascinating – and to a lesser but not inconsequential degree, cinematically fascinating – curiosity from early in Billy
If I had a time machine to observe audience reactions of the past, I’d first go to an opening screening of “Psycho” (1960) to enjoy
The riches-to-rags (and perhaps back to riches) story was among Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite structures of the Roaring Twenties. He approached it seriously in “Downhill” (1927),
“Easy Virtue” (1928), the sixth among Alfred Hitchcock’s preserved silent films, today plays like a symphony orchestra performance accompanied by moving images. As with most
“Blackmail” (1929) is one of the first British talkies, and that might’ve been exciting at the time, but it plays like modern 3D film when
Alfred Hitchcock was not known for remaking other people’s films, but one example is 1929’s “The Manxman.” It follows a 1916 version, based on an
Since the beginning of movies, there have been boxing films. The sport was so quickly recognized as cinematic that by 1927, when writer-director Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock gets more psychologically complex for his fourth silent film, “Downhill” (1927), and whether that’s a perk or a bug will depend on the
Right out of the gate, Alfred Hitchcock shows a knack for pacing, character arcs and energy with the light romantic drama “The Pleasure Garden” (1925).
It’s tempting to feel like a snooty film scholar after watching “The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog” (1927) – considered to be the