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Classics, Film, Foreign June 25, 2014 June 25, 2014

Film Review: Goyokin (1969)

Goyokin is a samurai film about honour. Opening voice-over narration explains that the title refers to a payment of gold delivered as a tax…

News July 30, 2013 May 5, 2014

News: A Conversation with Mark Hartley

by Chris Smith

Chris Smith recently had a chat with Australian filmmaker Mark Hartley, whose fictional feature debut Patrick, a remake of the 1978 Australian film, premieres at the 2013 Melbourne International Film Festival.

Classics, Film March 8, 2013 March 10, 2013

Film Review: North by Northwest (1959)

by Paul Flavel

North by Northwest has recently been restored and is being showcased at the Astor Theatre in a 4K DCP (digital cinema package) print. Enhancing the original 1950s production values in its VistaVision wide aspect ratio, no other Hitchcock film was so extensively filmed on location.

Film January 6, 2013 November 25, 2013

Film Review: Hitchcock (2012)

by Chloe Sesta Jacobs

After the premiere of his highly successful film North by Northwest, all Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) can focus on are critics claiming he’s over the…

Classics, Film January 1, 2013 January 2, 2013

Film Review: Psycho at the Astor

by Mark Hewitt

Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) looks wary as she hurriedly drives away from Phoenix, Arizona. It’s getting late, almost dusk. Pulling close on her profile we…

Film December 30, 2012 November 25, 2013

Film Review: Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

by Paul Flavel

Set in the 1970s, Berberian Sound Studio is based around the life of a sound engineer who works on an Italian horror film. Soon…

Classics, Film March 6, 2012 June 25, 2014

Film Review: The Birds (1963)

by James Madden

Having previously adapted Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (1940) to triumphant acclaim, Alfred Hitchcock took on du Maurier’s 1953 short story The Birds (1963).