Alfred Hitchcock

World 3D Expo Comes to the Egyptian Theatre

Why You Should See LACMA's Series of Early Hitchcock Films

Silent Hitchcock, Sean Connery and a Coachella Valley Film Fest: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, June 14 The Coachella music festival may be over, but the Coachella Valley is keeping the party going with AMFM (Art Music Film and More) through June 16 in Cathedral City. More than 50 films will screen at the UltraStar Mary Pickford Stadium 14, ... More >>

Everything You Need to Know About Hitchcock Month in Los Angeles

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage It's tempting to think we're in the midst of an Alfred Hitchcock resurgence. Last year, for the first time in half a century, a worldwide poll in Sight & Sound magazine chose Vertigo (1958) over Citizen Kane (1941) as the greatest film of all time; two bio ... More >>

Fast & Furious & Elegant: Justin Lin and the Vulgar Auteurs

Hitchcock Review: Shouldn't the Making of Psycho Be More Interesting?

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Bullets, Lynch and dinosaurs

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Alex Cox, curator

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Brendan Gleeson doubles up

There's Three Of Us, But We're Not The Beatles: The Ten Most Illogical Rap Lyrics In History

Wait, where's Ringo?​By Chaz Kangas "No one ever climbs a ladder alone," said Bill Clinton at his Hollywood Bowl fete on Saturday. This makes not a lick of sense. But perhaps he was just taking cues from the world of hip-hop, which is famous for its wildly inaccurate and illogical statements. ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Hitchcock uncovered, Kuchar remembered

Five Creepiest Exhibits at L.A.'s Natural History Museum

L.J. WilliamsonChicken Kong​The Museum of Natural History has a bright, shiny, happy new dinosaur hall with sunshine streaming in through floor-to-ceiling windows and colorful signs explaining educational facts about those crowd-pleasing dino bones that all of the schoolkiddies came here to see. ... More >>

Rabid Bats Continue to Wreak Havok on Moorpark; City Officials Are Like, Deal With It

Rabid bats.​Could there be anything more insane/dreadful to discover, or even imagine, hidden beneath your porch/roof shingles, than a swarming nest of rabid bats? Aside from maybe rabid raccoons -- or rabid possoms, or rabid rattlesnakes, or the neighbor's rabid purse-dogs -- we think not. ... More >>

Sex, Soviets and Hitchcock: Your Weekly Movie To-do List

10 Best Things to Do in L.A. the Day Before the Apocalypse

Shannon CotrellWhat can I get you to drink?​ On May 21, 2011, flying zombies and flying nuns will darken the skies above Los Angeles, in a scene far more dire than anything Alfred Hitchcock could have dreamed up. To make matters worse, according to Harold Camping, it's 100% true. Fortunatel ... More >>

Nightmare on Century Boulevard

Seven Weird Things To Do This Week in L.A.

Weekend of Horrors Convention​ L.A. is weird. You can fight it or go with it. What do you think folks in our Calendar section would say? Here are seven hints: 7. The Underground Rebel Bingo Club Fri., May 13, 10:00pm, secret location "We can't tell you anything about this Bingo Club. That's b ... More >>

Vertigo

Cahiers du Cinema: The New Wave in a New World

Legendary French film mag brings its auteurist project to the States via a new book imprint

Notes From a Bunker in New York City

A Free Man of Color, Notes From Underground and two Pinter one-acts

Big 'ol breasts painted by a Little Rascal & 10 other memorable works of art from Los Angeles crap shops

Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles.​ Yes, this celebration of women's mammalian possibilities was painted by an honest-to-God Little Rascal. Weirder stil ... More >>

Blond and Braless: A Weekend With Kim Novak

Cumbia de Mi Corazon, Dementia, An Evening With Sutton Foster

Also, Jawbone of an Ass, Starmites: An Intergalactic Musical and more

Interview: Jill Tracy's "Elegant Side of the Netherworld"

​ Think of Jill Tracy's music as the soundtrack for Union Station filmed in black and white during the eerie build-up to a startlingly romantic plot twist. Describing her sound as "the elegant side of the netherworld," Tracy has a voice that prompts images of spirits haunting art deco hallways ... More >>

Tippi Hedren to Appear for Wax Statue -- Scream Test Follows

Madame Tussauds Hollywood, the wax museum on Hollywood Boulevard, is re-opening in August after an extensive housecleaning. Today, foreshadowing its new Alfred Hitchcock exhibit, the museum will unveil a waxwork of actress Tippi Hedren. Hedren, who played the neurotic thief Marnie Edgar in Hitch ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Growing Out, I’ll Be There With You, The Lodger

Also, Prometheus Triumphant, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, and more

Best Tombs With a View: Cinespia at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Spice World

Getting to know enigmatic Paprika director Satoshi Kon

Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, It Ain't No Fairy tale

Must See Art

Michele O’Marah’s Faustus’ Children at Sister Gallery

Theater Reviews

For the week of March 10 - 16.

New Theater Reviews

Reviews of Neil LaBute's Bash, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Terry Johnson's Hitchcock Blonde

Last Chance for a Full Cincinnati*!

The Gull Can’t Help It

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds lands onstage

On the Couch, Off the Meds

Patrice Leconte’s Intimate Strangers, Zach Braff’s Garden State

Best in Film: Scott Foundas

The Logo-Spangled Banner

Slices of a digital war

The Cemetery Show: What Lies Beneath

London Calling

The American Embassy, plus Andy Richter and Bernie Mac

Not a Movie

Watching the unwatchable

Unforgettable

Filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai

Of Gods and Smog Monsters

Japanese cinema, old, new, weird

''You Look at Us Like We're Insects''

Director Claude Chabrol

Twisted Sister

The strange world of Patricia Highsmith

Noodle-Noodle Soup

All That Hollywood Allowed

Four films by Douglas Sirk

The Master Class

Foreign filmmakers invade the Egyptian.

Psycho Killer

Gus Van Sant’s imitation of art

Music Reviews

Female Trouble

From Paltrow to Pickford