dvr this The only person who Hitchcock directed to an Oscar, Joan Fontaine, is wonderfully terrified as a meek heiress who marries a mysterious playboy played with devilish creepiness by Cary Grant at his best. Suspicion is one of Hitchcock’s great suspense melodramas of the 1940s, and it holds up nearly 70 years later, engrossing…
dvr this Turner Classic Movies Monday, Feb. 4, 5 p.m. Arthur Penn’s hyper-violent-for-1967 film about the legendary outlaws was wildly influential and it turned Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway into superstars. You can see the film in the work of Quentin Tarentino, Oliver Stone and Andrew Dominik, among others. Film history aside, it’s also entertaining….
dvr this Turner Classic Movies 2:15 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 22 One of my favorite movies, Rebecca is romantic, creepy, thrilling and among the most beautifully shot films ever made. It is based on the Daphne du Maurier novel about a young woman who marries a widower and is haunted by his past, his housekeeper and…
dvr this Turner Classic Movies, 5 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 12 As camp masterpieces go, there’s no competition for this insane classic about two sisters, one stuck in a wheelchair (Joan Crawford) and the other suffering from delusions of grandeur (Bette Davis). Davis, under layers of makeup and in dresses more appropriate for a Victorian child,…
