AMPAS and LA Film Fest celebrate iconic costume design

Posted by · 1:10 pm · June 20th, 2013

‘Iconic Moment’ discussion will precede screening of Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo.’

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'Vertigo,' 'The Last Emperor' (in 3D) and Emmanuelle Riva get a fresh look at Cannes

Posted by · 6:50 pm · April 30th, 2013

Festival section, now in its tenth year, focuses on film heritage and restoration.

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On Alfred Hitchcock's ups and downs at the Oscars

Posted by · 6:20 am · November 20th, 2012

52 nominations spread out across 16 films

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Will 'Hitchcock' remind the Academy of its own Hitch neglect?

Posted by · 7:40 am · November 1st, 2012

The biopic is set to premiere at the AFI Fest tonight.

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The Lists: My top 10 films of all time

Posted by · 8:18 am · August 8th, 2012

Guy Lodge reveals how he voted in Sight & Sound’s decennial critics’ poll.

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'Vertigo' dethrones 'Citizen Kane' in Sight & Sound's Greatest Films of All Time poll

Posted by · 9:06 am · August 1st, 2012

For the first time in 50 years, the once-a-decade list has a new champion.

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'The Artist' and the 'Vertigo' score: separating theft from tribute

Posted by · 5:57 pm · January 9th, 2012

The trumped-up non-controversy is a ritual that many Best Picture frontrunners go through at some point: cue Kim Novak accusing “The Artist” of “raping” the memory of “Vertigo” by sampling Bernard Herrmann’s famous score. But where she sees sees artistic theft, the filmmakers see artistic tribute.

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AMPAS tips its hat to Saul Bass

Posted by · 3:04 pm · November 8th, 2011

Saul Bass, the late creator of the iconic title sequence and poster designs for “Vertigo” and “Psycho,” will be feted by the Academy at New York’s Museum of Modern Art next week.

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