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...There’s a lot of ugliness here, particularly from Hitchcock, whose advances bring back the #MeToo revelations....
...But while Anne Hathaway’s dark eyes here often convey something of Crawford’s deranged intensity, Jessica Chastain — barely recognisable as a blonde — recalls not Davis but the chilly poise of Hitchcock’...
...You might think that Hitchcock’s art had been thoroughly covered in documentary — in recent years alone we’ve had Kent Jones’s Hitchcock/Truffaut and Alexandre O Philippe’s 78/52, about the Psycho stabbing...
...It also drove the predatory alien played by Scarlett Johansson in Under The Skin, Jonathan Glazer’s genius sliver of minimalist sci-fi....
...Jonathan Guthrie is head of Lex Follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first...
...The birds rose in a cloud to attack me, à la Hitchcock. I crouched to avoid the dive bombing. My trousers split. I returned to the mainland in skin-tight jeans....
...It’s at this moment, as the spectre of irrelevance looms, that we first encounter Wilder in Jonathan Coe’s latest novel, Mr Wilder & Me....
...Fortunately, since Scarlett and Albert are the creations of the incomparable Jonathan Stroud, everything that follows their reluctant decision to join forces is fresh and startling....
...Then there’s Vincente Minnelli’s The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), which stars Kirk Douglas as unscrupulous producer Jonathan Shields....
...Imagine this as a drive-in movie, but showing Puccini instead of a Hitchcock classic or a Star Wars marathon....
...In Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958), its oneiric landscape made sense — just about — of a deranged story of erotic obsession; in 1968’s jazzy police thriller Bullitt, a roller-coaster car chase through its streets...
...Jonathan Pike’s terraces have a Hitchcock Rear Window feel, a sense of the sad stories of lives wasted behind black windows. And then there is the pullback, the panorama....
...In 1932 his and Henry-Russell Hitchcock’s Modern Architecture: International Exhibition at MoMA and their book The International Style promoted the ubiquitous mid-century uniformity of slab-and-tower spareness...
...The two most memorable sequences in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1959 film are the chases....
...West of Eden: An American Place, by Jean Stein, Jonathan Cape, RRP£20 / Random House, RRP$30, 352 pages Danny Leigh is a film critic and broadcaster Photographs: AKG-Images/Interfoto; Getty Images...
...Edwin Heathcote Cinema Alfred Hitchcock, by Peter Ackroyd, Chatto & Windus, RRP£12.99 It’s a surprise it has taken Ackroyd so long to get to Hitchcock, a figure who always lurked in the spiritual margins...
...In Woody Allen’s Match Point (2005), a callow English go-getter (Jonathan Rhys Myers) moves up the storeys of ambition and perfidy....
...Simon Kuper Film Alfred Hitchcock, by Peter Ackroyd, Chatto & Windus, RRP£12.99 Ever ferreting out the best details, this short and engrossing biography of the much-examined director tells us, for example...
...Only Jonathan Coe would dare take something so comically prosaic and make it the basis of a misunderstanding that poisons a marriage....
...Only one answer: Alfred Hitchcock....
...Rich Cohen is author of ‘The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King’ (Jonathan Cape)...
...As Jonathan Mills, director of EIF, explains, the Qatsi trilogy stands as a cultural monument in its own right, but relates closely to the founding principles of the festival....
...But will future generations be able to consult a reliable archive of today’s most important cultural figures, when what we mostly know of them is their joshing with Jonathan Ross, and their semi-sarcastic...
...In the Loeb-Leopold case, Darrow defended two privileged young men who gratuitously killed a 14-year-old boy as part of a sexual pact (the crime that inspired Hitchcock’s Rope)....
...Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer, Hamish Hamilton RRP£20 An unflinching examination of what it means to eat animals, and of the disgusting reality of factory farming, by someone who couldn’t bear...
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