Birds, The (1963): What You Need to Know–Use of Birds (Real and Fake), Sound, Special Effects

What You Need to Know–Use of Birds (Real and Fake), Sound, Special Effects

Birds, The (1963): Making of Hitchcock’s Masterpiece–What You Need to Know–Literary Source and Script

Literary Source: The screenplay for The Birds is based on Daphne du Maurier’s novella “The Birds,” which was first published in her 1952 short story collection The Apple Tree. The protagonist of the novella is a farm hand living in Cornwall, and the conclusion of the story is far more pessimistic than that of the […]

Box-Office: Worst Weekend in Decades Outside of COVID, ‘Argylle’ Ekes Out $6.5M Lead

One new twist this year, however: Taylor Swift is responsible for a surge in football viewership this year among girls and women.

DGA Awards 2024: Christopher Nolan Wins Top Directing Kudo for “Oppenheimer”

Christopher Nolan earned the top prize at the DGA Awards on Saturday night, earning his first DGA Award for the historical epic Oppenheimer.

I Confess (1953): What You Need to Know about Hitchcock’s Most Catholic Film, Starring Montgomery Clift, Karl Malden, Anne Baxter, Brian Aherne

I Confess had one of the longest pre-productions of any Hitchcock film, with almost 12 writers working on the script for Hitchcock over a period of eight years.