By Elisabeth Karlin "Somewhere in here I was born...and here I died. It was only a moment for you...you took no notice."

He may not have won an Oscar for any of his 53 films, but we always knew Alfred Hitchcock was more than a star. Finally, thanks to some intrepid sky-gazing from the astronomers at Chile's La Silla observ

Hitch waits for some love fro

Over the next year or so, there will be so many Alfred Hitchcock-related events, it will be hard even for die-hard fans to keep up. For starters, researchers and scientists at the British Film Institute are

Here's to the Newtons

Watch these clips in 3D. You can even choose the format you want (red/blue glasses, "cross-eyed" etc.) by clicking the 3D icon at the bottom of the frame.  As my friends know (because I have a way of worming it into, like, every third conversation), I believe Dial M for Murder

“One of part of [Rear Window] that always makes me giggle is when Jeff, Lisa and Doyle are all hanging around and warming their brandy throughout the entire scene. It cracks me up every time. The visual of the three of them swirling and swirling and swirling for some reason just strikes me as funny. Am

“Self-plagiarism is style.”--Alfred Hitchcock For a full-length series of posts about Dial M for Murder, check out my mondo analysis! One of my favorite

Update: I just realized that this whole thing is a satirical joke. (Thanks to "Crispy" below for enlightening me.) Bachmann never actually said any of this. But I'm leaving the post up because I'm not sure which is funnier: Craig's faux interview, or the fact that I fell for it.

“During its 400-year history, the novel has missed many of its possibilities; it has left many great opportunities unexplored, many paths forgotten, calls unheard.”—Milan Kundera, “An Introduction to a Variation”

By Elisabeth KarlinThey couldn't have been more different and they couldn't have been more alike. Alfred Hitchcock, the reserved Englishman with the Jesuit upbringing who work

By Elisabeth Karlin Bea

I can't think of a single measure by which Alfred Hitchcock could be described as “average.” A man of huge appetites for food, wine, humor and art, he seemed repressed in only one way: sexually. Even that was inordinate. A self-proclaimed celibate, he insisted that he'd had sex exactly once. Given such monk-like sexual

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By Elisabeth Karlin

For years, Hitchcock geeks have speculated about what the heck Alfred Hitchcock was carrying in his cameo appearance in Vertigo: