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NZ fans of Alfred Hitchcock will want to dial M for missing. This weekend in the US, HBO aired The Girl, Gwyneth (Five Days) Hughes’ dramatisation of the relationship between the director and one of his leading ladies, Tippi Hedren (The Birds, Marnie). Critics were divided, with The Wall Street Journal dubbing it “an exquisitely […]

A Blu-ray box set of 15 Alfred Hitchcock movies, complete with 15 hours of bonus content, will be released on October 3. NZ pricing has still to be confirmed but expect to pay around $150-$170 given at least one Australian retailer has listed it for $A130. Only two of the movies, North by Northwest (1959) […]

Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Martin Balsam, John McIntire. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay: Joseph Stefano. Score: Bernard Hermann. Cinematography: John L Russell. The clarity of the 50-year-old, black-and-white footage in this Blu-ray edition of the slasher-trash prototype, starring ‘80s scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis’ mum, Janet Leigh, is more startling than the […]

Universal Pictures NZ is soon to release on Blu-ray 50th anniversary editions of two of the studio’s genre greats: Psycho and Spartacus. Alfred Hitchcock’s groundbreaking serial killer classic initially will be sold through only JB Hi-Fi stores, from September 1, but will widen to other retailers from December 1. The Gladiator of its era, Stanley […]