Tag: Alfred Hitchcock

• Top 5 Noir Movies

  Originally published at Cinema Sugar. 1. Double Indemnity This isn’t the first major noir (fedora-tip to The Maltese Falcon) but damned if it isn’t the genre’s absolute peak: femme fatale, no-nonsense narration, crime gone wrong, investigator on the case. It’s hard to pick Billy Wilder’s best movie but this has to be near the top.…

  Nov 4, 2022

  # Alfred Hitchcock, best of, Cinema Sugar, Coen Brothers, film, film noir, lists, Memento, movies, The Third Man

• Gary Rydstrom on Rear Window’s ingenious sound design

  Northwestern’s Block Museum hosted a screening of Rear Window that was introduced by Gary Rydstrom, Oscar-winning sound designer for Saving Private Ryan, Titanic, Jurassic Park, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and many other movies you love. Though I didn’t stay for the movie (I’ve already seen it on the big screen), I was eager to hear Rydstrom’s perspective…

  Nov 10, 2018

  # Alfred Hitchcock, film, Gary Rydstrom, movies, Rear Window

• Rear Window

  Published in the North Central Chronicle on October 5, 2007, as part of a series called “Chad Picks Classic Flicks.” Today we’re going to visit the 1950s, a time when television shows delivered the least objectionable content, when the president of the United States was roundly respected, and when rock stars needed only to shake…

  Feb 1, 2008

  # Alfred Hitchcock, Chad Picks Classic Flicks, film, Grace Kelly, Jimmy Stewart, movies, NCC Chronicle, Rear Window, review