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Writer/director/actor Jim Cummings joins hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to discuss a few of his favorite movies.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Thunder Road short film (2016)

Thunder Road (2018)

The Wolf Of Snow Hollow (2020)

The Beta Test (2021)

Jack Reacher (2012)

The ’Burbs (1989) – Ti West’s trailer commentary, Burbs-Mania from Tfh

Big (1988)

War Of The Worlds (2005) – Glenn Erickson’s 4K Blu-ray review

Psycho (1960) – John Landis’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings

Children Of Men (2006)

Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002)

Russian Ark (2002) – Brian Trenchard-Smith’s trailer commentary

The Beach (2000)

Titanic (1997)

28 Days Later (2003)

Victoria (2015) – Eduardo Rodriguez’s trailer commentary

Krisha (2015)

Dogtooth (2009)

Inside Out (2015)

Toy Story (1995)

Finding Nemo (2003)

Wall-e (2008)

Up (2009)

Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – Mark Pellington’s trailer commentary, Oren Peli’s trailer commentary

False Positive (2021)

Repulsion (1965) – Michael Lehman’s trailer commentary

Seduced And Abandoned (1964)

Divorce Italian Style (1961)

La Dolce Vita (1960) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary

My Beautiful Girl, Mari (2002)

Speed Racer...

Special Bonus Episode – Author/filmmaker/Hitchcock Laurent Bouzereau expert discusses five Hitchcock movies he wishes got more love.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020)

Rear Window (1954)

Psycho (1960)

Vertigo (1958)

The Birds (1963)

Matinee (1993)

Marnie (1964)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Rope (1948)

Dial M For Murder (1954)

Dr. No (1962)

Family Plot (1976)

Explorers (1985)

Body Double (1984)

Stage Fright (1950)

Scrooge (1951)

The Wrong Man (1956)

Citizen Kane (1941)

The Trouble With Harry (1955)

Suspicion (1941)

Torn Curtain (1966)

North By Northwest (1959)

Topaz (1969)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Young And Innocent (1937)

Waltzes from Vienna (1934)

Under Capricorn (1949)

Jamaica Inn (1939)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Other Notable Items

Laurent’s book Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind The Man (2004)

The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection Blu-ray collection (2020)

Thomas Narcejac

James Stewart

Laurent’s Five Came Back TV series (2014)

Kim Novak

Vera Miles

Grace Kelly

Tippi Hedren

Cary Grant

Alain Resnais

Ray Milland

Anthony Dawson

The Tower Theater in Philadelphia

Bruce Dern

Rod Taylor

Jessica Tandy

Craig Wasson

Suzanne Pleshette...

Why does CineSavant write so many positive reviews, even for films not commonly thought of as even being ‘good?’ Well, I’m about to offend committed fans of this Hayley Mills thriller… it bothered me in such basic ways that I had to watch it twice to make sure I hadn’t missed something important. Hayley Mills loves Hywel Bennett, a poor boy who gets a chance at the good life. But are they going to be victimized by envious relations, murderous gypsies, a deranged architect? The big superduper plus here is the film’s original music score by Bernard Herrman, one of his last.

Endless Night

Region B Blu-ray

Powerhouse Indicator

1972 / Color B&w / 1:85 widescreen / 100 min. / / Street Date , 2020 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £15.99

Starring: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson, George Sanders, Lois Maxwell, Patience Collier, Ann Way, Leo Genn, Shirley Jones (voice).

Cinematography: Harry Waxman...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.

A Burning Hot Summer (Philippe Garrel)

What makes Philippe Garrel’s films so distinct is their blend of autobiographical pain and silent-film mise-en-scène–a failed relationship or revolution rendered not so much through the increasingly dialogue-heavy scripts of his films, but the placement of bodies, gestures, and, furthermore, the dreams that contain and emerge from them. Yet while A Burning Hot Summer may be the only film he’s made in the 21st century not shot in black-and-white, once the senior Maurice Garrel (in his final role) appears as an apparition in his grandson’s hospital bed-bound vision, the personal and the fantastical have formed their most natural relationship.

Lady Sybil will soon embark upon a Brave New World.

Downton Abbey vet Jessica Brown Findlay has been cast in USA Network’s series adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel, TVLine has learned.

Brave New World, first published in 1932, is set in a futuristic utopian society “that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family, and history itself,” according to the official logline. Findlay will assume the role of Lenina Crowne, a Beta Plus Hatchery worker who begins to “question her position with the strict social strata of the New World.” She joins previously announced...

Before Meghan Markle found her Prince Charming—aka Prince Harry—this bride-to-be had to kiss a few frogs. Markle met Hollywood producer Trevor Engelson in 2004 before they embarked on a nearly seven-year relationship—and before she became known for her role as Rachel Zane on Suits. Unlike her whirlwind romance with the British royal, however, Markle and Engelson took their relationship slowly and waited nearly six years before getting engaged in 2010. The two later married in a beachfront ceremony at the Jamaica Inn in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Their island wedding drew 100 of their closest family and friends who, according to the Daily Mail, "partied for four days...

Thanks to Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca and the underrated Jamaica Inn, Daphne du Maurier is a well known writer among movie buffs. But of course her work is known outside of Hitchcock's circles thanks to Nicolas Roeg's classic Don't Look Now and with the recent release My Cousin Rachel. Headlined by Rachel Weisz, My Cousin [...]...

My Cousin Rachel is a moody, well-acted gothic grounded by a terrific performance by Rachel Weisz in the title role. The actress keeps you guessing about her character’s intentions from beginning to end – and possibly afterwards. Set in the 19th century, My Cousin Rachel is the story of Philip Ashley (Sam Claflin), a man who was orphaned at an early age, and raised by his older cousin Ambrose. When Ambrose sets off on a trip to Italy, he falls in love with and marries Rachel, a distant cousin. After writing letters to Philip with cryptic references to Rachel trying to do him harm, Ambrose dies. Soon Rachel (Rachel Weisz) turns up in England. At first Philip intends not only to question her about the suspicious circumstances of his beloved cousin’s death, but to exact some sort of revenge against her. But Philip soon finds himself smitten by Rachel’s beauty,...

A dark romance, My Cousin Rachel tells the story of a young Englishman who plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms. The cast features Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, Holliday Grainger, Iain Glen, and Pierfrancesco Favino.

Directed by Roger Michell, the film opens in theaters June 9, 2017.

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My Cousin Rachel was written in 1951 by Daphne du Maurier, whose outstanding work often combines suspense, passion and shockingly modern psychological portraits of men and women in intriguing and sometimes obsessive relationships. So cinematic was her writing that Alfred Hitchcock made films from three of her novels: Jamaica Inn,...

In the annals of rich men who look to Hollywood to build a secondary empire, real estate billionaire Charles S. Cohen (Forbes net worth: $2.2 billion) is their Don Quixote. His Cohen Media Group is staking its claim in spaces renowned for their allergies to profit: He’s restoring classic films, releasing foreign-language titles, and moving into specialty exhibition.

One Oscar campaigner calls Cohen’s taste “older middle-of-the-road arthouse,” and that’s exactly the audience he wants. Three of Cohen’s French imports — “Outside the Law” (2010), “Timbuktu” (2014) and “Mustang” (2015) — received foreign-language Academy Award nominations. This year, Cohen (with partner Amazon Studios) took Iranian Cannes-prize-winner Asghar Farhadi’s “The Salesman” all the way to the Oscar, much to the chagrin of established competitors Sony Pictures Classics (“Toni Erdmann”) and Music Box (“A Man Called Ove”).

However, where other billionaire businessmen have wanted to be studio moguls, or Harvey Weinstein, what Cohen really...

In the annals of rich men who look to Hollywood to build a secondary empire, real estate billionaire Charles S. Cohen (Forbes net worth: $2.2 billion) is their Don Quixote. His Cohen Media Group is staking its claim in spaces renowned for their allergies to profit: He’s restoring classic films, releasing foreign-language titles, and moving into specialty exhibition.

One Oscar campaigner calls Cohen’s taste “older middle-of-the-road arthouse,” and that’s exactly the audience he wants. Three of Cohen’s French imports — “Outside the Law” (2010), “Timbuktu” (2014) and “Mustang” (2015) — received foreign-language Academy Award nominations. This year, Cohen (with partner Amazon Studios) took Iranian Cannes-prize-winner Asghar Farhadi’s “The Salesman” all the way to the Oscar, much to the chagrin of established competitors Sony Pictures Classics (“Toni Erdmann”) and Music Box (“A Man Called Ove”).

However, where other billionaire businessmen have wanted to be studio moguls, or Harvey Weinstein, what Cohen really...

By Tim Greaves

Not the most beloved entry in Alfred Hitchcock's cinematic oeuvre – by either audiences in general or the director himself – 1939's Jamaica Inn (based on a Daphne du Maurier novel first published three years earlier) is nevertheless a serviceable enough piece of drama, which perhaps finds its most ideal place nowadays as an undemanding rainy Sunday afternoon programmer.

Following the death of her mother, Mary Yellen (Maureen O'Hara) travels from Ireland to England intending to take up residence with her relatives at their Cornish hostelry the Jamaica Inn. After an unexpected detour, which on face value proves beneficial when she makes the acquaintance of local squire and magistrate Sir Humphrey Pengallan (Charles Laughton), Mary arrives at her destination to find her browbeaten Aunt Patience (Maria Ney) living in fear of a tyrannical husband, the brutish Joss Merlyn (Leslie Banks). It also transpires that the Inn is the...

What happens when a prosecutor tracks down one of the most evil criminals of the century, only to find that politics and corruption prevent him from issuing an arrest warrant? This is the true story of the hunt for the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann — not from the Pov of the Israeli agents that pounced on him in Argentina, but a German prosecutor hemmed in on all sides by Nazi sympathizers in his own government bureaucracy.

The People vs. Fritz Bauer

Blu-ray

Cohen Media Group

2015 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 105 min. / Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer / Street Date January 10, 2017 / 30.99

Starring Burghardt Klaußner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Michael Schenck, Cornelia Goöscher, Lilith Stangenberg.

Cinematography Jens Harant

Film Editor Barbara Gies

Original Music Christopher M. Kaiser, Julian Maas

Written by Lars Kraume, Olivier Guez

Produced by Thomas Kufus

Directed by Lars Kraume

As a movie reviewer I’m attracted to certain subjects. I’ve written up...

or, Savant picks The Most Impressive Discs of 2015

This is the actual view from Savant Central, looking due North.

What a year! I was able to take one very nice trip back East too see Washington D.C. for the first time, or at least as much as two days' walking in the hot sun and then cool rain would allow. Back home in Los Angeles, we've had a year of extreme drought -- my lawn is looking patriotically ratty -- and we're expecting something called El Niño, that's supposed to be just shy of Old-Testament build-me-an-ark intensity. We withstood heat waves like those in Day the Earth Caught Fire, and now we'll get the storms part. This has been a wild year for DVD Savant, which is still a little unsettled. DVDtalk has been very patient and generous, and so have Stuart Galbraith & Joe Dante; so far everything...

Legendary actress Maureen O’Hara passed away Oct. 24 at the age of 95. To remember her illustrious film career, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will remember O’Hara on Nov. 20 with a 24-hour film tribute featuring many of her most memorable roles. TCM Remembers Maureen O’Hara — Friday, Nov. 20 (All Times Eastern) 6am: Jamaica Inn (1939) – A young woman on the British coast stumbles onto a ring of bloodthirsty scavengers. 7:45am: The Deadly Companions (1961) – To make amends for killing a man, a Civil War veteran accompanies his corpse through dangerous territory. 9:30am: Spencer’s Mountain (1963) – A … Continue reading →

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“Make Way For Pengallan!”

By Raymond Benson

The general consensus among critics and fans alike is that Jamaica Inn, the last British film Alfred Hitchcock made before moving to America to work in Hollywood, is not one of the director’s best. It isn’t. It definitely belongs in the lower echelon of his canon. However, there is still much to savor in the picture, and the new Blu-ray restoration by the Cohen Film Collection is a worthwhile medium with which to revisit this odd action-adventure thriller.

Based on a novel by Daphne du Maurier (the first of three works by the author that Hitchcock adapted), Jamaica Inn is a story of pirates operating out of an English coastal village in the early 1800s, thus making it one of Hitch’s few period dramas. Charles Laughton was a co-producer on the film as well as the star, and accounts of...

Maureen O'Hara: Queen of Technicolor. Maureen O'Hara movies: TCM tribute Veteran actress and Honorary Oscar recipient Maureen O'Hara, who died at age 95 on Oct. 24, '15, in Boise, Idaho, will be remembered by Turner Classic Movies with a 24-hour film tribute on Friday, Nov. 20. At one point known as “The Queen of Technicolor” – alongside “Eastern” star Maria Montez – the red-headed O'Hara (born Maureen FitzSimons on Aug. 17, 1920, in Ranelagh, County Dublin) was featured in more than 50 movies from 1938 to 1971 – in addition to one brief 1991 comeback (Chris Columbus' Only the Lonely). Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne Setting any hint of modesty aside, Maureen O'Hara wrote in her 2004 autobiography (with John Nicoletti), 'Tis Herself, that “I was the only leading lady big enough and tough enough for John Wayne.” Wayne, for his part, once said (as quoted in 'Tis Herself): There's only one woman who has been my friend over the...

Maureen O’Hara, an actress whose career stretched beyond film and television to the world of business, has died at the age of 95.O’Hara, born Maureen FitzSimons to Charles and Marguerite in Dublin in 1920, showed an aptitude for acting from a young age. She began training in drama, music and dance at the age of six, learning stage craft at the Abbey Theatre from 14. Her experience led to a screen test with a film studio in London, but despite a failure there, she was spotted by actor Charles Laughton, who saw star quality in her.Laughton, along with business partner Erich Pommer, offered her a contract with their company Mayflower Pictures, resulting in her film debut in 1938 in two films, The Playboy and Little Miss Molly. But she scored her first big role (and a surname) change with Jamaica Inn, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Delighted with her performance in the film,...

Maureen O’Hara was one of the most luminous figures of Hollywood’s Golden Age, when colors popped and carefully lit stars shone brightly in darkened theaters. The way she gleamed on screen in glorious Technicolor, with that burning-red hair and those emerald eyes, is evocative of that fleeting time in cinema history. But O’Hara, who passed away Saturday at the age of 95, wasn't simply a pretty face on a big screen, despite her title as the Queen of Technicolor. She thrived on challenging roles, portraying women going toe-to-toe with brutes. As film historian David Thomson once explained, she was a woman in a man's world, tempestuous and tenacious, known for throwing her hands on her hips when facing opposition from gruff ’n‘ tough gunslingers.The Irish-born actress had a breakout role in Hitchcock’s tightly-coiled adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn (1939), the last film the director...

Maureen O'Hara in Our Man In Havana with Alec Guinness. Photo: Courtesy of London Film Festival Miracle On 34th Street star Maureen O'Hara has died at age 95.

The Irish-born redhead – whose films included How Green Was My Valley, Our Man In Havana Jamaica Inn and The Quiet Man - died in her sleep her home in Boise, Idaho, her manager Johnny Nicoletti said.

O'Hara made a move to Hollywood in 1939 after success in Britain and became known for starring alongside John Wayne, who said of the actress: "She's a great guy. I've had many friends, and I prefer the company of men. Except for Maureen O'Hara."

O'Hara - who wrote a biography entitled 'Tis Herself - was awarded an honorary Oscar earlier this year.

Her family said in a statement: "Her characters were feisty and fearless, just as she was in real life. She was also proudly Irish and spent...

From the AP:

Maureen O’Hara, the flame-haired Irish movie star who appeared in classics ranging from the grim “How Green Was My Valley” to the uplifting “Miracle on 34th Street” and bantered unforgettably with John Wayne in several films. She was 95.

O’Hara died in her sleep at her home in Boise, Idaho, said Johnny Nicoletti, her longtime manager.

O’Hara received an Honorary Award at the 2014 Governors Awards.

“She passed peacefully surrounded by her loving family as they celebrated her life listening to music from her favorite movie, ‘The Quiet Man,'” said a statement from her family.

“As an actress, Maureen O’Hara brought unyielding strength and sudden sensitivity to every role she played. Her characters were feisty and fearless, just as she was in real life. She was also proudly Irish and spent her entire lifetime sharing her heritage and the wonderful culture of the Emerald Isle with the world,...

Child actor Dickie Moore: 'Our Gang' member. Former child actor Dickie Moore dead at 89: Film career ranged from 'Our Gang' shorts to features opposite Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper 1930s child actor Dickie Moore, whose 100+ movie career ranged from Our Gang shorts to playing opposite the likes of Marlene Dietrich, Barbara Stanwyck, and Gary Cooper, died in Connecticut on Sept. 7, '15 – five days before his 90th birthday. So far, news reports haven't specified the cause of death. According to a 2013 Boston Phoenix article about Moore's wife, MGM musical star Jane Powell, he had been “suffering from arthritis and bouts of dementia.” Dickie Moore movies At the behest of a persistent family friend, combined with the fact that his father was out of a job, Dickie Moore (born on Sept. 12, 1925, in Los Angeles) made his film debut as an infant in Alan Crosland's 1927 costume drama The Beloved Rogue,...

George MacKay, Jessica Barden, Daisy Bevan, and Jessica Brown-Findlay lead the cast of The Outcast, a new two-part drama coming to BBC One, adapted by Sadie Jones from her award-winning novel.

The Outcast is a powerful portrait of small-town hypocrisy and young love, set in 1950s Britain.

Pushed to the fringes of society, Lewis seems to be completely abandoned, but for the one girl whose love might yet save him. Can he summon the courage to overcome his demons and expose the darkness that lurks behind the façade of his picture-perfect village?

George MacKay (represented by Gordon and French) stars as Lewis Aldridge (from the age of 16), who is only ten years old when he witnesses the death of his beautiful, doting mother. Left alone with his emotionally distant father Gilbert (played by Greg Wise), Lewis is forced to bury his grief. Lewis is neglected until his suppressed rage...

Jamaica Inn

Written by Sidney Gilliat and Joan Harrison

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

UK, 1939

With 23 feature films to his credit, by 1939, Alfred Hitchcock was the most famous director in England. And with his celebrity and his reputation for quality motion pictures, he had attained a degree of creative control unmatched in the British film industry at the time. When it comes to Jamaica Inn, for more than three decades the last film he would fully shoot in his native land, this reputation and this independence would be thoroughly tested. Available now on a stunning new Blu-ray from Cohen Film Collection, which greatly improves the murky visuals and distorted sound marring all previous home video versions, Jamaica Inn had the renowned Charles Laughton as supervising star and producer. Predictably, he and Hitchcock did not always see eye to eye as they jockeyed for authority on set. The result is a contentious...

Cohen Media Group beautifully restores Alfred Hitchcock’s 1939 title Jamaica Inn. A title worthy of reconsideration, considered by many to be an inferior work from the master of suspense, even from the director himself, it’s a definite gem, particularly for fans of Charles Laughton. The actor, whose production company basically commandeered the production, gives a swarthy, deliciously overwrought performance. It’s a standout in a career already filled with such distinction. The film also serves as the film debut of the beautiful Maureen O’Hara, here playing a glorified damsel in distress.

The narrative is relatively simple, set around 1800 as young Irish lass Mary (O’Hara) makes a surprise visit to the Cornish coast to visit her Aunt Patience (Marie Ney) following the death of her mother. Patience lives with Mary’s uncle Joss (Leslie Banks, who vies with Laughton for greatest scene chewer), a man that provides the...

Jamaica Inn Acorn TV Rlj Entertainment

In another significant coup for the company, Acorn TV have given a U.S. debut to the epic BBC costume drama Jamaica Inn. Part one of the three part series was added to Acorn’s online screening service this week with parts two and three to be added over the next fortnight.

The drama is based on the Daphne du Maurier book of the same name. It centers around orphaned Mary Yellan who moves to Poldark-era Cornwall to live with her aunt. She soon discovers that her aunt is married to a notorious smuggler. To complicate matters further, Mary becomes infatuated with the rogue’s dashing brother. With those spicy ingredients, Jamaica Inn soon gets pretty tasty.

Downton Abbey’s Jessica Finlay Brown plays the heroine Mary. Matthew McNulty (The Syndicate) is her love interest while Joanne Whalley (Wolf Hall) takes on the role of her long suffering aunt.

Teresa Wright: Later years (See preceding post: "Teresa Wright: From Marlon Brando to Matt Damon.") Teresa Wright and Robert Anderson were divorced in 1978. They would remain friends in the ensuing years.[1] Wright spent most of the last decade of her life in Connecticut, making only sporadic public appearances. In 1998, she could be seen with her grandson, film producer Jonah Smith, at New York's Yankee Stadium, where she threw the ceremonial first pitch.[2] Wright also became involved in the Greater New York chapter of the Als Association. (The Pride of the Yankees subject, Lou Gehrig, died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in 1941.) The week she turned 82 in October 2000, Wright attended the 20th anniversary celebration of Somewhere in Time, where she posed for pictures with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. In March 2003, she was a guest at the 75th Academy Awards, in the segment showcasing Oscar-winning actors of the past. Two years later,...

Jamaica InnAcorn TV Streams BBC Miniseries Based on Daphne du Maurier’s Gothic Drama Mar. 16, Mar. 23, and Mar. 30Directed by Philippa LowthorpeStars Jessica Brown Findlay, Sean Harris and Joanne WhalleyRating 4/5 Life is grim on the Cornish coast of England in 1821. Windswept moors underline the loneliness and despair of the inhabitants with only two choices – to eke out a living from an unwilling ground and dangerous sea or join criminal gangs.It’s into this world that Mary (Brown Findlay) arrives. Her mother has died and she has journeyed to the seaside Jamaica Inn, a disused ramshackle hotel where […]...

Poldark star Aidan Turner has admitted that the cast of the period drama were "scared" of mumbling complaints during filming.

The actor - who will lead the cast of the BBC One adaptation of Winston Graham's acclaimed books - said that the furore created by Jamaica Inn affected the cast.

Hundreds of viewers complained about sound issues during the first episode of Jamaica Inn last year, with many suggesting the problems came from cast members mumbling their lines.

Turner told the Radio Times: "I didn't see the show Jamaica Inn but the fuss about it spooked us all a lot.

"We started shooting a few weeks later and I can tell you all the actors were aiming for 10 out of 10 on enunciation. I'm doing posh Rp (Received Pronunciation) anyway so it didn't really affect me directly but I was scared."

The Being Human actor is joined in the adaptation by Eleanor Tomlinson as Demelza.

Above: Us three-sheet poster for The Private Life of Henry VIII (Alexander Korda, UK, 1933).

The great Charles Laughton may not have been the prettiest of movie stars, but he had a presence that many matinee idols would have killed for (as the current retrospective running at Film Forum will attest). In an era in which glamor was everything, studio marketers may have struggled with how to present Laughton’s unconventional looks and his larger-than-life portrayals of larger-than-life characters (so many monsters, murderers, tyrants, or simply overbearing fathers) to the public. In most of the posters for his most famous film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), he is all but a silhouette, a spoiler alert to his monstrous transformation as Quasimodo. And in some posters for The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), the film for which he won his first Oscar, Henry is made to look more like the Hans Holbein...

Each of us experience movies a little differently, right? Well, maybe not. A BrainCraft featurette (posted below) says that we might have a little less autonomy in how we respond to movies than we think. In collecting various studies on how brain activity changes between different genres, different directors and different types of viewers, the video draws some fascinating connections about the relationship between a movie and its audience. As for what research says about movies of the future, things get a little more bizarre. As the video tells us, "Films of the future will be so interactive that they will respond to your brain activity while you're watching them."  Whether you find this stuff intriguing or alarming (or, more likely, both), this short is definitely worth a watch. Check it out below. Read More: Watch: Alfred Hitchcock Gets High-Res in 'Jamaica Inn' Restoration...

Criterion brings British auteur Nicolas Roeg’s most famous title to the fold, 1973’s enigmatic Don’t Look Now, a title that has influenced generations of filmmakers since its successful reception, and marks the director’s fifth title to be included in the illustrious collection. A refracted dreamscape of symbols and motifs, the film is a brooding jigsaw puzzle that doesn’t insist on answering all your questions, and happens to feature an unforgettable finale that’s lost none of its affect (despite providing iconic fodder for famed parodies, ranging from memorable bits in “Spaced” to “Absolutely Fabulous”).

After the drowning of their preadolescent daughter, Christine, in the backyard of their estate, John and Laura Baxter (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) take off for Venice, where John accepts a job to restore some mosaics in one of the city’s many dilapidated churches. However, once there, the couple is introduced...

In The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thomson cuts the career of larger-than-life English actor Charles Laughton into conveniently bite-sized, dismissible chunks, noting that many of Laughton's "great performances" — the snide quotation marks are Thomson's — have dated badly. But then, perhaps it's all too easy to miss the point of Laughton, even though he was oversized in more ways than one: He doesn't so much star in a film as take up magisterial residency in it, at times filling the frame to bursting.

That's certainly true of his performance in Alfred Hitchcock's 1939 Jamaica Inn, which plays in a crisply restored version at Film Forum on February 4, 5, 6, and 7 as part of a th...

Are you struggling to make out the dialogue in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar? And why is the inaudible dialogue problem not going away?

Appreciating you could be forgiven for thinking that a good 90% of features on movie websites right now are about Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, for the purposes of this piece, there's little other place it can start.

Before I went to see Nolan's latest, I'd been advised by a colleague that Hans Zimmer's score for the film was quite dominant in places ("it's like he fell onto a church organ at one point", I was sagely told). And that proved to be true. What also proved to be true - for me at least - was that the sheer volume and force of that score drowned out dialogue.

And in turn, it brought up one of my recurring bugbears: inaudible dialogue in modern movies.

As it turned out,...

Maureen O'Hara movies: 2014 Honorary Oscar for Hollywood legend (photo: Maureen O'Hara at the 2014 Governors Awards) In the photo above, the movies' Maureen O'Hara, 2014 Honorary Oscar recipient for her body of work, arrives with a couple of guests at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2014 Governors Awards. This year's ceremony is being held this Saturday evening, November 8, in the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood. For the last couple of years, Maureen O'Hara has been a Boise, Idaho, resident. Before that, the 94-year-old movie veteran -- born Maureen FitzSimons, on August, 17, 1920, in Dublin -- had been living in Ireland. Below is a brief recap of her movies. Maureen O'Hara movies: From Charles Laughton to John Wayne Following her leading-lady role in Alfred Hitchcock's British-made Jamaica Inn, starring Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara arrived in Hollywood in 1939 to play the gypsy Esmeralda opposite Laughton in William Dieterle...

Chicago – One of the finest places in the world to witness its best cinema is the Chicago International Film Festival, which is now hitting its golden year of 50. This year’s festival boasts a lineup of top tier entries from world renowned filmmakers, packaged in the distinct Chicago flavor that keeps the city on a level all its own.

The festivities begin on Thursday, October 9 with a presentation of Liv Ullman’s “Miss Julie,” an adaptation of the August Strindberg play starring Colin Farrell and Jessica Chastain. With the film playing at Chicago’s Harris Theater, Ullman and Farrell are scheduled to walk the red carpet, along with “The Fugitive” director Andrew Davis and Academy Award-nominated actress Kathleen Turner.

A delicious lineup of films from around the world, adored at previous festivals and now ready for Chicago audiences, begin their presentation the next day (Friday October 10) with all festival screenings...

Spirited Away director Hayao Miyazaki and Irish-born actress Maureen O'Hara (Jamaica Inn, The Parent Trap), are to be honoured with lifetime Oscars.

French screenwriter and actor Jean-Claude Carriere – whose films include The Artist And The Model and The Unbearable Lightness Of Being will also collect a lifetime award, while Us actor and singer Harry Belafonte will be honoured by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for his humanitarian work.

After rising to fame as the King of Calypso, Belafonte has spent much of his life campaigning for causes including civil rights, famine relief and Aids awareness. He was also named a Unicef Goodwill Ambassador in 1987.

The honorary award is for "extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the Academy”.

The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is given “to an individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts.

The New York Film Festival, whose 52nd edition runs from September 26 through October 12, carries on rolling out the lineups for its various programs. This weekend sees the full roster for a Joseph L. Mankiewicz retrospective featuring such classics as All About Eve (1950), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Guys and Dolls (1955) and Sleuth (1972). Additions to the Revivals section include Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn (1939) and Anthony Mann's The Man from Laramie (1955). And there are two programs of Short Films, too. » - David Hudson...

The New York Film Festival, whose 52nd edition runs from September 26 through October 12, carries on rolling out the lineups for its various programs. This weekend sees the full roster for a Joseph L. Mankiewicz retrospective featuring such classics as All About Eve (1950), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Guys and Dolls (1955) and Sleuth (1972). Additions to the Revivals section include Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn (1939) and Anthony Mann's The Man from Laramie (1955). And there are two programs of Short Films, too. » - David Hudson...

Emma Frost ("The White Queen," "Jamaica Inn") has been hired to adapt David Baldacci's young adult novel "The Finisher" into a film for Sony Pictures.

The first in a proposed series, the story is set in a regimented community named Wormwood that is surrounded by a forest filled with mysterious and dangerous beasts.

A 14-year old girl spies her mentor running into that forest, and that sets her out on a mystical adventure to find the truth about her town.

Matt Tolmach is producing the project which could prove to be a potential franchise.

Source: Heat Vision...

Exclusive: Origin Pictures, Paines Plough, BBC Films launch writing scheme

Origin Pictures is teaming with theatre company Paines Plough on a scheme to develop playwrights’ screen-writing skills.

Origin, producers of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and TV series Jamaica Inn, is launching the scheme with backing from its BFI Vision Award and in collaboration with BBC Films.

The partnership will support four playwrights in their writing across film and theatre over six months through workshops, mentoring and editorial support.

The selected writers are Alia Bano, Stacey Gregg, Ali Taylor and Alexandra Wood.

Bano won the Charles Wintour Award in 2009 for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Awards for her play Shades, which ran at the Royal Court that year. Her play Gap was commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for their Connections 2011 season.

Wood, whose plays include The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court), The Lion’s Mouth (Rough Cuts/Royal Court), Unbroken (Gate Theatre), Decade (co-writer/Headlong...

Have you heard the one about Phil Neville's World Cup commentary. I Said Have You Heard The One About Phil Neville'S World Cup Commentary!

The BBC's World Cup coverage launched in full over the weekend and despite having approximately 456 pundits flown out to Brazil, somebody, somewhere thought it was a smart idea to give Phil Neville his first big co-commentary gig in the England v Italy game.

Don't worry, Phil, there's only 15 million people watching. Nobody will notice if you get off to a shaky start. Oh, hang on.

Barely registering above a whisper, Neville sounded like he'd come straight off the set of Jamaica Inn. Throw in a staccato presentation manner, which meant that he barely broke into sentences longer than half a dozen lines long (Was he actually being really smart and speaking in Haikus?), and you've got a recipe for one the most simultaneously snooze-inducing...

EastEnders and the series premieres of The Crimson Field and Jamaica Inn were the most-requested TV shows on the BBC iPlayer in April 2014.

Figures from the corporation, which exclude those watched via Sky and Virgin Media Cable, showed the April 22 episode of the soap to be the most requested show, with 1,463,000 watching.

"EastEnders proved extremely popular throughout April dominating the top 20 episodes, with requests boosted by the Lucy Beale murder storyline," said the BBC, as the soap made up 16 of the top 20 most-requested episodes.

In a list restricted to the most-requested episode per series, The Crimson Field opener ranked fourth with 928,000 requests and Jamaica Inn's starter was sixth with 798,000 requests.

Jameela Jamil-fronted documentary Porn: What's the Harm? was third in the list with 1,063,000 requests.

So far we've got a sexy magician, a mega-voiced boyband, a deliciously dark dance troupe and a cute-as-One-Direction-button singer in the Britain's Got Talent final. Tonight, two more acts will join them, but who will it be?

Brian Chan, Cartel, Crazy Rouge, Ellis Chick, Kitty & Rosie, Lucy Kay, REAformed, Sam Jones and Yanis Marshall, Arnaud and Medhi will face the judges and British public tonight. They'll also have to face the verdict of our live blog as we watch along live. We're sure they're terrified.

Join us from 7.30pm when we'll be live-blogging the fun and games on ITV.

22:01It might not have been vintage Got Talent, but you definitely couldn't call it dull. Hopefully that was the point. It was a crazy evening and I think we all need a lie down. We'll be live-blogging again tomorrow night. See you there? Don't you dare leave us to face it alone.

Above: Sophia Loren, this year's Guest of Honor, in Vittorio De Sica's Marriage Italian Style

The following films comprise this year's slate of Cannes Classics:

Marriage Italian Style (Vittorio De Sica)

A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)

Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)

Regards sur une revolution: Comment Yukong déplaça les montagnes (Marceline Loridan & Joris Ivens)

Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Oshima)

Wooden Crosses (Raymond Bernard)

Overlord (Stuart Cooper)

Fear (Roberto Rossellini)

Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

The Last Metro (François Truffaut)

Dragon Inn (King Hu)

Daybreak (Marcel Carné)

The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov)

Gracious Living (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)

Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock)

Les violons du bal (Michel Drach)

Blue Mountains (Eldar Shengelaia)

Lost Horizon (Frank Capra)

La chienne (Jean Renoir)

Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa)

8½ (Federico Fellini)

Two Documentaries about Cinema:

Life Itself (Steve James)

The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films (Hilla Medalia)

None of these films will be presented on film.

Sophia Loren named guest of honour and Kieslowski returns to Cannes Film Festival. No 35mm prints to be screened for the first time.

The Cannes Classics line-up of film masterpieces, presented in restored prints, has been announced. The programme comprises 22 features and two documentaries, screened in either 2K or 4K. But for the first time no 35mm print will be screened at Cannes Classics “with regret for some or with celebration for others”, according to a statement.

Guest of honour will be Sophia Loren, who won the award for Best Actress at Cannes in 1961 and was president of the jury in 1966. She will be present at the screening of La Voce Humana (2014), directed by Edoardo Ponti, which marks her return to movies.

That same evening, a 4K restoration of 1964 film Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio all’italiana) by Vittorio De Sica will be screened.

Loren has also accepted to give a masterclass - a conversation which will take...

BBC One's latest drama Happy Valley opened with over 6 million viewers on Tuesday, according to overnight figures.

Sarah Lancashire's series was seen by 6.3m (27.3%) at 9pm, up by nearly 2m from last week's Jamaica Inn in the same slot. Comedy Playhouse special Over To Bill amused 2.3m (17.9%) at 10.35pm.

On BBC Two, the World Championship Snooker coverage continued with 1.1m (6.0%) at 7pm. The Big Allotment Challenge dipped by 200k to 1.7m (7.6%) at 8pm, followed by Watermen: A Dirty Business with 1.1m (4.9%) at 9pm.

ITV's Champions League coverage of Real Madrid's easy win against Bayern Munich scored 4.3m (20.1%) at 7.30pm.

On Channel 4, Embarrassing Bodies intrigued 1.2m (5.6%) at 8pm (141k/0.6% on +1). Mr Drew's School for Boys appealed to 1.4m (6.0%) at 9pm (329k/2.0%), while Last Chance School brought in 838k (5.2%) at 10pm (163k/2.0%).

Channel 5's Nightmare Neighbour Next Door fascinated 1.4m (6.5%) at 8pm, followed by Behind Closed Doors with 824k (3.6%) at 9pm.

Daphne du Maurier's son has revealed that he struggled to understand the characters on Jamaica Inn.

The BBC's recent adaptation of du Maurier's classic novel was recently criticised by some viewers for being difficult to follow, due to a combination of the actors' mumbled dialogue and poor sound quality.

Kits Browning stated that he particularly found it difficult to hear what actor Sean Harris (landlord Joss Merlyn) was saying.

"In the end I had to resort to subtitles because I wanted to see [scriptwriter] Emma Frost's wonderful words," he told Radio Times.

"I feel so sorry for Emma Frost - she did a wonderful adaptation."

Let's get ready to mumble! 13 amazingly incoherent performances

He added: "Thank God Sean Harris's character gets killed. I blame the director and the sound man - and an actor who just mumbled.

"If anyone else feels the same way I just suggest you go and read the book.

Jamaica Inn, the highly-anticipated three-part BBC One adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1936 gothic novel, kicked off to strong ratings on Monday night – and got a lot of people talking. But much of the chatter has come in the form of complaints – nearly 2,200 so far, according to BBC News. British viewers are decrying sound issues, and what people have called “mumbling” by the cast of the Origin Pictures production. (The Twittersphere is referring to it as #MumbleInn.) Downton Abbey‘s Jessica Brown Findlay stars with Joanne Whalley, Sean Harris and Matthew McNulty in the drama that’s set in 1820s Cornwall (a West Country county that has a very particular accent). But there’s been some debate as to whether the sound troubles were technical or artistic. Here’s the trailer: After initial complaints, the BBC on Tuesday apologized, saying there were “issues with the sound levels” which would be...

Derek returned to Channel 4 with over 1 million viewers on Wednesday, according to overnight data.

Ricky Gervais's nursing home sitcom amused 1.5m (8.2%) at 10pm (184,000/1.9% on +1), which is 100k up from last year's launch.

Earlier, Secret Eaters continued with 1.0m (4.9%) at 8pm (101k/0.5%), followed by How to Get a Council House with 1.7m (7.6%) at 9pm (364k/2.2%).

On BBC One, Jamaica Inn dropped a further 300k for its final episode, attracting 4.1m (18.7%) at 9pm.

MasterChef topped Wednesday overall once again, climbing back by around 600k from last week to 5.1m (23.5%) at 8pm. A Question of Sport quizzed 2.2m (17.2%) at 10.35pm.

BBC Two's Under Offer intrigued 1.7m (8.1%) at 8pm, while Ian Hislop's Olden Days appealed to 1.4m (6.3%) at 9pm.

ITV's Big Star's Little Star entertained 3.7m (17.4%) at 8pm (178k/0.8%), followed by the latest Law & Order: UK with 3.4m (15.6%) at 9pm (331k/2.1%).

On Channel 5, Killing Spree interested 638k (3.0%) at 8pm (101k/0.5%). NCIS...