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A thriller Top 10: Check out K Narayanan’s essential Hitchcock watchlist

Psycho, of course. But also The Lady Vanishes, and The 39 Steps. A century since his first film, Narayanan puts together a list of fan and critic favourites.

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Updated on Apr 25, 2025 02:35 PM IST
ByK Narayanan

Through the rear window: On Alfred Hitchcock, 100 years since his first film

Who was he? How did he, almost accidentally, end up in filmmaking? What makes his movies so unforgettable? K Narayanan traces the arc in a series of Hitchfacts.

North by Northwest; 1959: Roger Thornhill (played by Cary Grant), an ad executive mistaken for a spy, is chased by a crop-duster trying to mow him down. ‘That plane’s dusting crops where there ain’t no crops,’ he says.
Updated on Apr 25, 2025 02:33 PM IST
ByK Narayanan

Problematics | Where Hitchcock meets Einstein

This week, an Einstein puzzle with Hitchcock movies rather than zebras, and an easier teaser that may look deceptively difficult.

3. Challenge your brain: You must keep your brain active by reading newspapers, solving puzzles, learning new skills, playing cards, brain training games like Sudoku and crosswords etc.(Pixabay)
Published on Dec 02, 2024 09:26 AM IST

HT City Delhi Junction: Catch It Live on 10 August 2024

The day of Aug 10 promises to offer loads if you wish to explore the culture of Delhi-NCR. Before you plan your day, check out HT City Delhi Junction on Insta!

Catch It Live on 10 August 2024
Published on Aug 09, 2024 05:30 PM IST

5 reasons to explore the UK for a future in the creative arts

For individuals who want to create their own niche in the realm of the arts, the UK stands as a beacon for aspiring artists.

Artists like David Bowie, Adele, and the Beatles revolutionised music while directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Christopher Nolan reshaped the cinematic landscape. (Unsplash)
Published on Mar 19, 2024 01:23 PM IST
ByRittika Chanda Parruck, New Delhi

Problematics | Crossing the desert without enough fuel

A puzzle in which you make a long trip across forbidding terrain, but will need more supplies than you can possibly carry.

Welcome to Problematics!(Shutterstock)
Published on Jul 17, 2023 12:07 AM IST

Saboteur, Limelight actor Norman Lloyd dies at 106

American actor Norman Lloyd, known for his work on screen and in theatre, died at his home in Los Angeles. He was 106. In his long career, he had worked with Alfred Hitchcock and Charlie Chaplin among others.

(File Photo) Norman Lloyd poses before a 50th anniversary screening of the film The Sound of Music at the opening night gala of the TCM Classic Film Festival on March 26, 2015, in Los Angeles. Lloyd, known for his role as a kindly doctor on TV's St. Elsewhere, has died at 106.(Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
Published on May 12, 2021 11:58 AM IST
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Rebecca movie review: Netflix delivers a dazzlingly pretty film starring distractingly pretty people

Rebecca movie review: Netflix and director Ben Wheatley deliver a rather lifeless adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s classic Gothic romance, previously adapted for the screen by Alfred Hitchcock.

Rebecca movie review: Lily James as Mrs de Winter and Armie Hammer as Maxim de Winter in a still from the new Netflix film.(Kerry Brown / Netflix)
Updated on Oct 21, 2020 05:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByRohan Naahar

The Way We Were: A tribute to desi film’s Gothic phase

Despite how heavily they borrowed from the West, the early spooky movies remain some of our best in the genre.

Think of strong Gothic influences and you think also of Kamal Amrohi’s Mahal (1949), Biren Nag’s Bees Saal Baad (1962, loosely based on The Hound of the Baskervilles), and to an extent Bimal Roy’s Madhumati (1958).(Shemaroo/YouTube)
Updated on Aug 30, 2020 10:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By

Make sense of streaming

Intimidated by the volume of content available on your screens? Here’s what the six major OTT platforms have to offer

Since most of the OTT platforms come with inbuilt expectations, either because of pre-existing content or other services they offer, potential subscribers are always wary of what they’re paying for.(HT Imaging)
Updated on Feb 17, 2020 02:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByRohan Naahar

Fractured movie review: A harrowing Hitchcockian thriller for you to discover on Netflix

Fractured movie review: Avatar actor Sam Worthington stars in a moderately gripping Netflix thriller, inspired by Alfred Hitchchock’s The Lady Vanishes.

Fractured movie review: Sam Worthington in a still from Brad Anderson’s new Netflix film.
Updated on Oct 16, 2019 06:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByRohan Naahar

Horror in the shower

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho hit screens on June 16, 1960 and ever since, fear and horror have entered the nondescript washroom.

In the shower scene from the film Psycho, Marion Crane (played by Janet Leigh) screams in terror as Norman Bates tears open her shower curtain.(Getty Images)
Updated on Jun 15, 2019 07:38 AM IST
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Doris Day, iconic Hollywood singer-actor who sang Que Sera Sera, dies at 97

Doris Day, known for such films as Pillow Talk and That Touch of Mink and for such songs as Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera), has died at 97.

This undated file photo shows US actor Doris Day, well known for her romantic/comedy roles in Hollywood films of the 1950's and early 1960's.(AFP)
Updated on May 13, 2019 07:04 PM IST
Associated Press | By

Atul Dodiya retells 7 minutes of a Hitchcock thriller, in new art show

The exhibition at Mumbai’s Chemould gallery features 36 photorealistic paintings based on a crucial sequence in the film Blackmail.

The paintings are in stark tones of black and white and have a grainy feel to them, making them look like film stills.
Published on Jan 15, 2019 06:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByKrutika Behrawala

The Wizard of Oz is the most influential movie of all time, says study

1939 musical drama, The Wizard of Oz, is the most influential film of all time, a new study says. It is followed by Star Wars and Psycho.

The Wizard of Oz was released in 1939.
Published on Nov 30, 2018 05:47 PM IST
Press Trust of India | By, London

Searching movie review: One of the most innovative thrillers of the year; seek it out, spread the word

Searching movie review: John Cho stars in the most innovative, white-knuckle thriller of 2018, with shades of Alfred Hitchcock and Agatha Christie. Absolutely unmissable. Rating: 4/5.

Searching review: John Cho in a one-man show.
Updated on Sep 02, 2018 12:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByRohan Naahar, New Delhi

Raj Khosla, India’s answer to Alfred Hitchcock and Bollywood’s master of thrills

Alfred Hitchcock would have turned 119 this month. A look at how Raj Khosla, one of the top Hindi film directors of the ’50s-’80s imbibed Hitchcock’s spirit, moulding it to suit the Indian audience

Bombai Ka Babu (1960) is a Raj Khosla neo-noir family drama with an incest angle.(Sanjeev Verma/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Aug 19, 2018 01:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By

Weekend Binge: Like Hereditary, 10 films audiences hate, but the critics adore

Do professional reviewers’ views reflect the audiences’? Are critics behind the times? Is the profession itself under threat of becoming obsolete?

Each of the films listed here is magnificent.
Updated on Jun 23, 2018 08:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times | ByRohan Naahar, New Delhi

Meghan Markle isn’t the only star to join royalty. Here’s who did it before her

More than six decades ago Meghan Markle’s fellow countrywoman Grace Kelly walked away from Hollywood to take on a new role as princess of Monaco.

Meghan Markle is not the first American actress to give up her career for the love of a prince.(AFP)
Updated on May 17, 2018 09:31 PM IST
Agence France-Presse | By, Paris

Expect to be mesmerised: Rashid Irani reviews A Quiet Place

A winning idea - a family forced to live in total silence, to avoid monsters drawn by sound - and stunning execution make this a truly terrifying film.

John Krasinski and Emily Blunt are masterful as the couple trapped on a deserted farmstead with their two children, forced to live in silence.
Published on Apr 05, 2018 04:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByRashid Irani
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