Christopher Doyle (1952-) is an Australian born cinematographer who left Australia as a teenager and after working odd jobs throughout the world became a student of Chinese culture and a photographer. Cinematography followed and he made his first movie in Taiwan in the early 80s. Since then he has worked on over 50 movies in…
Read more Cinematographer Christopher Doyle on Chinese Cinema and the Psycho remake
*contains spoilers Writer Daphne du Maurier (1907-89 heart failure) wrote a kind of loose trilogy of novels set in Cornwall in South West England which were turned into movies and they were Jamaica Inn (1939), Rebecca (1940) and Frenchman’s Creek (1944). Alfred Hitchcock directed two of these titles – Jamaica Inn and Rebecca – while…
Read more Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock’s Cornish Movie Trilogy
*contains spoilers There is a science fiction movie out there which is already a cult movie to those who know it and it is called The Space Children (1958). Yet its innocence in this world sees it barely rate a four on the IMDb as it tells of a future on Earth perhaps saved from…
Read more The Cult of Divine Intervention in The Space Children (1958)
*contains spoilers If I have a favourite movie from Alfred Hitchcock’s early English period – it is definitely The Lady Vanishes (1938). It is funny, it is mysterious and there’s a bit of action. It also has a great cast of English actors who, together with the director, keep the film moving along the tracks…
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*contains spoilers Jack Palance (1919-2006 natural causes) would star as Jack the Ripper in Fregonese’s first black and white movie since My Six Convicts entitled Man in the Attic (1953). Easily accessible because it is in the public domain, it’s a remake of the well-worn tale of The Lodger which had been filmed by Alfred…
Read more Director Hugo Fregonese and Savage Pampas (Part Two)
*contains spoilers Diana Barrymore’s (1921-60 drug and alcohol overdose) life and career were a train wreck. As a young actress, she tried desperately to live up to a fabulous family name on both Broadway and Hollywood. She was once a little girl who had name, breeding, talent, and opportunity… all squandered. She was the step-aunt…
*contains spoilers Hollywood did, however, give Tallulah financial independence and she left with $200,000 and a resolve to return to the stage. It would be a decade before she made another film. She opened on Broadway to rapturous applause in Forsaking All Others. Joan Crawford would star in the film version a year or so…
* contains spoilers Name: CameronAge: 59 Occupation: Former Pay Clerk Favourite Movie: Psycho (1960) First Saw It: I was seventeen on tv at home Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam Plot: Director Alfred Hitchcock adapts the novel by Robert Bloch which was based on the life of killer Ed…
Read more My Cult Movie: “… It’s still got the power to shock”
*contains spoilers There is a bit of a mirrored loop when it comes to Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill (2003, 2004) movies and a couple of other films… I’ll start with Tarantino. Watching them again and the more I like Jackie Brown (1997) and the earlier movies. I went to the cinema twice to see Once…
*contains spoilers When did the supercomputer come into being? In fact, has a supercomputer already come into being? Like the movie Eagle Eye (2008), is there already a information gathering supercomputer which can think and pick on individuals – perhaps even determine the outcome of elections in various countries through fudging numbers fed into it.…
Read more The Supercomputer Cult of Colossus and Crosstalk (Part One)
