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Review

Rear Window (1954)

Cinema is twenty-four pictures per second with synchronized sound, and somehow it builds vast universes inside our imaginations.

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Review

Suspicion (1941)

Suspicion is Hitchcock playing peekaboo.

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Review

To Catch a Thief (1955)

Hitchcock has three filmmaking gears: coasting, locked-in, and getting weird.

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Essay

Revisited: Rope (1948)

I have a rule of thumb that Alfred Hitchcock movies must be watched twice to be properly appreciated.

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Review

Psycho (1960)

In his famous essay “An Introduction to the American Horror Film,” critic Robin Wood defined the genre