Alfred Hitchcock

Olivia de Havilland, last surviving actor of Hollywood's Golden Age, passes away aged 104

Olivia de Havilland began her movie career after director Max Reinhardt saw her in a California production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and cast her in his 1935 film version of the play.

In these coronavirus times, understanding why the mind seeks lighter fare over heavy-duty, 'difficult' cinema

The coronavirus outbreak has shaken the foundations of the Maslow's need-hierarchy pyramid: self-actualisation has been pushed to the back burner.

Revisiting Manderley on Rebecca's 80th anniversary: Shadows, suspense and subtext in Hitchcock's gothic thriller

It is Rebecca who gives the film its title, the aura which pervades the film's atmosphere; though she is dead, her presence is imposing and rich in ambivalence.

Berlinale 2020 to host conversations between filmmakers, including the wonderfully eccentric Swedish director Roy Andersson

Roy Andersson is genuinely hilarious and truly original as can be deduced from his Living trilogy, which excels in 'absurd' comedy.

Psycho movie review: Mysskin's ode to Alfred Hitchcock is a compelling thriller, despite its shortcomings

Psycho is a cat-and-mouse chase to find a serial killer who decapitates his victims and preserves their heads

On Carlos Reygadas’ Japón, and the concept of unilateral vs bilateral cinema

The goal of a mainstream filmmaker is to rivet you. Someone like Carlos Reygadas wants to free you.

Firstpost Editor's Picks: Rafale row, filmmakers' V-Day 'love letters' and Shannon Gabriel's sledging; today's must-read stories

The CAG's report on Rafale confounds the already existing confusion about the real cost of the deal.

The world's first psychopath AI proves that an unbiased data set is critical for training AI algorithims

Norman is an psychopath AI that is trained to perform image captioning; a popular deep learning method of generating a textual description of an image.

From Hitchcock to Michelangelo Antonioni to Asghar Farhadi, how similar plots work in different ways

What do Alfred Hitchcock, Asghar Farhadi and Michelangelo Antonioni have in common? All three filmmakers have made a movie around the concept of a missing woman — and yet there's so much different in each film.

Truffaut/Hitchcock and 50 years of The Bride Wore Black, aka the Kill Bill of its generation

One of Truffaut's most Hitchock movies ever, The Bride Wore Black, boasts of an unknowability that Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill movies lack.