The ‘Queen Mary’s’ strange second life: From maritime jewel to paranormal attraction
The ocean liner, once a symbol of British power that helped defeat Hitler, has become a favorite setting for horror films
Kim Novak, actress: ‘In Hollywood, you’re worth as much as your last film’
At 92, the star has received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement award. In an interview with EL PAÍS, she discusses her departure from the industry, her celebrated role in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ and why she doesn’t want Sydney Sweeney to play her in a future biopic
A useless $100-million copy: When they dared to remake ‘Psycho’
When some executives asked Gus Van Sant 25 years ago what he wanted to do for his next film, he replied that he wanted to duplicate, frame by frame, a universally known masterpiece, and they said: okay
Did Hitchcock direct a pro-Nazi movie?
A documentary presented at the Venice Film Festival recalls the controversy of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Lifeboat.’ When it was released in 1944 in the midst of World War II, he was accused of using the movie to praise the Germans
The egg, an inspiration for art from Ancient Egypt to Salvador Dalí
The book ‘The Gourmand’s Egg. A Collection of Stories & Recipes’ seeks to place this universal symbol in its rightful place in history
‘My Name is Alfred Hitchcock’: The master himself tells us our weaknesses — in the first person — in a new film
Mark Cousins’s documentary is revealing and playful, funny and somber, tricky and artistic, all at once
From ‘Psycho’ to a new crop of horror movies, the genre has some mommy issues
Experts say the horror genre is well-suited to grappling with such issues because it is at its core primal. And it doesn’t get much more primal or universal than mother-child relationships