North by Northwest (movie)

Saul Bass: American flair, Soviet aesthetics, with a Brubeck beat

2013-05-08 13:57:00

Google paid animated homage Wednesday to iconic designer and artist Saul Bass with one of its more lively Doodles. To mark what would have been the movie title designer’s 93rd birthday, the Google cartoon recaps several of Bass’ films...

Martin Landau to receive career award at Israel Film Festival

2013-03-19 13:33:00

Academy Award-winning actor Martin Landau will receive the 2013 Israel Film Festival's Career Achievement Award at the 27th opening night gala April 18 at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. Past recipients of the honor include Richard...

'Hitchcock's' triple play

2012-12-13 06:00:00

The original title of director Sacha Gervasi's "Hitchcock" was "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho," the name of Stephen Rebello's book on which the film is based. Anthony Hopkins, who plays the famed filmmaker in the movie, thought the longer name...

Hollywood finds romance in travel

2012-02-05 00:00:00

Love is always lovelier some place other than home. Well, at least in the celluloid universe. Traveling by boat, train or even bus can lead to romantic entanglements in the movies, as does visiting �ber-romantic locales such as Rome, Paris and Venice. Of...

Alfred Hitchcock and 'The Killing': Kenneth Turan's DVD picks

2011-11-09 16:37:17

Cary Grant's former home in Palm Springs is listed

2011-02-15 15:52:00

A Palm Springs property that actor Cary Grant lived in for 20 years has come on the market at $2,995,000. The 19th century Spanish farmhouse replica was built between 1927 and 1930 on 1.5 acres in the area known as the Movie Colony for its famed...

Hot Property: Ashton Kutcher's would've-been bachelor pad for sale

2011-03-12 00:00:00

Actor Ashton Kutcher has listed his Sunset Strip-area "bachelor pad that never was" for $2.6 million. Kutcher bought the house in 2004 for $1 million and rebuilt it with his father but never moved in. Instead, he married actress Demi Moore in 2005....

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif., David Allen column

2013-04-28 07:14:01

Last Sunday I was ready to ride Metrolink into L.A. for CicLAvia, a car-free event in which certain streets are shut down for exclusive use by bicyclists and pedestrians. As I waited at the Claremont depot, a fellow passenger named Joshua, who was...

Film Review: A romantic comedy sans jokes

2013-04-26 14:08:00

Road pictures come, off the shelf, with an automatic story arc: the characters must get from point A to point B, not just geographically but thematically. More often than not, they end up at a different point B than they had intended or hoped for. The...

MOVIE REVIEW: Hitchcock

2012-11-28 07:20:00

Hitchcock is the new movie about the real life Alfred Hitchcock and the making of his most famous movie, Psycho.� The movie is based on Stephen Rebello's 1998 non-fiction book "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho".� Sir Anthony Hopkins stars as�...

10 great Alfred Hitchcock movies: 'North by Northwest,' 'Psycho,' 'Vertigo' and more

2012-10-20 16:32:28

On Theater: There's a Hitch in Playhouse mystery farce

2012-10-09 14:59:00

Not since Mel Brooks served up the movies of Alfred Hitchcock like so much chopped liver in "High Anxiety" has the master of suspense been more comically garroted than he is in "The 39 Steps," the latest attraction at the Laguna Playhouse. And, as he did...

Alfred Hitchcock. Honorary Oscar-winner Robert Boyle took a moment to thank some of the directors on whose films he had served as production designer. Nearly 50 years after working together on "North by Northwest," Hitch finally got his thanks.

2013-02-21 01:21:00

Even more erotic is Cary Grant's encounter with Eva Marie Saint on a train in Hitch's sophisticated and funny romantic thriller "North by Northwest." Hitchcock enjoyed trains in such films as 1938's "The Lady Vanishes" and 1951's"Strangers on a Train.

2012-02-04 15:09:09

The loudest noise surrounding New Yorker Ian Schrager's purchase of a certain hotel-restaurant on Goethe Street in the Gold Coast neighborhood was about what alterations he might make to the Pump Room, that legendary celebrity watering hole.

2011-12-28 13:07:38