Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock & The Ticking Clock

Arts, Culture & Media

A saboteur places a bomb under a table. Two people sit down at the table and talk about baseball. According to Alfred Hitchcock, it will be the most suspenseful conversation about baseball you’ve ever watched. We’ve seen it in countless suspense thrillers, like Speed and the James Bond films; our hero has to stop the […]

Seeing Double

Arts, Culture & Media

No Tell Motel

Arts, Culture & Media

No Tell Motel

Arts, Culture & Media

Rodman plays ball with North Korea’s dictator

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Why is “Psycho” so scary?

Arts, Culture & Media

On the anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” artists and thinkers explore the film’s ability to continually scare the heck out of people.

The World

1941: At the Movies

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There’s no better way to escape from uncertain times by whiling away the hours at the movies. Takeaway film correspondent Rafer Guzman tells us about five movies that have, from the perspective of a moviegoer in 1941, the potential to become classics: Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane,” Humphrey Bogart’s breakout film, “The Maltese Falcon,” Gary Cooper […]

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1941 at the movies

Arts, Culture & Media

There’s no better way to escape from uncertain times than by spending time at the movies. Takeaway film correspondent Rafer Guzman tells us about five movies that have the potential to become classics.

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