In 1985, the Academy had a chance to give Akira Kurosawa a long-overdue Oscar for directing one of the best films of his career, Ran , so...

It's an interesting thing about Hitchcock—where other directors saw light, he saw darkness. And I don't mean in terms of the storie...

Spencer Tracy's performance in Father of the Bride is one of those that looks effortless until you start thinking of all the ways it co...

Katie-Bar-The-Door and I are back in town, and with half-a-dozen blog-a-thons now in my rearview mirror, I'll be getting back to my regu...

The final pairing in the great directors tournament is set. The master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, squares off against the greatest acti...

Well, the final four is set and there are a couple of surprises. As I would have guessed, Alfred Hitchcock continued his dominance of the Cl...