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Ashton Kutcher, American gigolo

By Andrew O'Hehir — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

The wisecracking TV host and trophy husband proves he can act in "Spread," a deceptively dark SoCal sex satire

Quentin over Fellini? "Annie Hall" over Antonioni?

By Andrew O'Hehir — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

Has critical taste become fossilized? A new greatest-films poll yields some odd results, but poses old questions

DVDs you should have seen, but didn't: Buñuel, Visconti, Hitchcock, Chris Marker and more

By Andrew O'Hehir — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

Two of Buñuel's weirdest, Chris Marker's magnum opus, Riviera Hitchcock, the original "Odd Couple" and more.

Out of the past

By Charles Taylor — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

It's easy to laugh at classic Hollywood movies. It's harder to grasp that they're America's truest and most necessary cultural heritage -- and wicked, brazen, unsentimental fun besides.

"12 Monkeys"

By Virginia Vitzthum — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

Combining time-travel thriller and experimental film, Terry Gilliam's 1995 oddball classic steals a tale of doomed love and cruel fate from Hitchcock -- then pays back the debt.

"North by Northwest"

By Bill Wyman — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

Screenwriter Ernest Lehman talks about his plan to write "the ultimate Hitchcock movie."

"Diabolique"

By Michael Sragow — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

Did a Frenchman scare Hitchcock into making "Psycho"?

"Sabotage" and "Secret Agent"

By Michael Sragow — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

Was 1936 Hitchcock's very best year? Two thrillers, including the director's weirdest movie ever, make the case.

"Psycho"

By Bill Wyman — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

Hitchcock's creepy thriller about sex has imprinted itself on the psyche of two generations of moviegoers.

"Marnie"

By Stephanie Zacharek — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

Hitchcock's florid psychodrama unfolds multiple layers of repressed memory, frigidity and changing identity.

"Notorious"

By Andrew O'Hehir — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

In this truly twisted love story, the passion between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman is so powerful it's almost a character in itself.

"The Birds"

By Charles Taylor — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

Tote up all its flaws and you still reach the same conclusion: Hitchcock's ornithological thriller is simply terrifying.

"The 39 Steps"

By Charles Taylor — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

A crisp transfer shows the Hitchcock classic as you've never seen it before -- black cat and all.

This dame was a lady

By Michael Sragow — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

Janet Leigh rebuffed Howard Hughes, made movies with Orson Welles and collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock. But don't call her an actor.

"Mission to Mars"

By Andrew O'Hehir — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

In space, no one can hear you jeer.

Window washers

By Michael Sragow — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

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.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

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"Rear Window"

By Charles Taylor — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

James Stewart loves watching the defectives in Hitchcock's restored peeping-tom thriller.

Blue Glow

By Joyce Millman — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

The problem with President "Bulworth"; even Alfred Hitchcock wasn't perfect; don't use children as an emotional crutch!

The Savage id

By Michael Sragow — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

Camille Paglia talks about why Hitchcock has more to do with Madonna than he does with pomo theorists.

Master of imperfection

By Steve Burgess — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

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.

All in the family

By Michael Sragow — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell recalls working with her father, Alfred, on "Strangers on a Train" and "Psycho."

Lights, cameo, action!

By Sarah Vowell — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

Alfred Hitchcock's first rule of directing was to treat actors like cattle -- and even in his own cameos, he was no sacred cow.

Moral majority

By Charles Taylor — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT

The American people acquitted Clinton long ago.