Andrew McGowan studied at Bowdoin College and the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Hs has served on programming and judicial teams for several film festivals, and has written about cinema ...

Benedict is a college graduate with a degree in Film and Screen Media and a future unemployed Letterboxd user. He got into movies through a childhood love of blockbusters and comic book movies, and ...

“Rope” is mostly known for appearing as if it were a single take, but in fact it’s an absorbing thriller that will help you appreciate the master. By Ben Kenigsberg Alfred Hitchcock may seem like an ...

In an experimental turn, “Rope” is Hitchcock’s first Technicolor film, and, for those who haven’t seen it, gives off the illusion that it is all shot in one take (an attempt made more recently in the ...

Editor's note: "Essential" is a new series from Dallas Morning News critics and special contributors spotlighting timeless works of art and culture. I'd known about this 1948 Hitchcock classic since ...

Rope, Alfred Hitchcock's first color film, was adapted from Patrick Hamilton's stage play Rope's End by no less than Hume Cronyn. Loosely inspired by the Leopold-Loeb case, the plot concerns two ...

This was Hitchcock's first film in color.

The elasticity of time is perhaps best appreciated when we are the spectators of a performance, be it a film, a play, a concert or a lecture. The actual duration of the performance and its mental ...