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The Birds (1963) and The Bees: A Closer Look at Subtext in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds

2008-07-10 09:35:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
 
...Birds (1963). John Carpenter's The Fog (1980), about a small town overcome by a creeping mist appropriates the Marin County location; the "local color" of a small town in jeopardy, and the final siege set-piece. Or take, for example, George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968), another siege picture with desperate heroes barricading...
 
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A BIRD-BRAINED PROMOTIONAL SCHEME FOR ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S "THE BIRDS"

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2008-04-10 13:22:00 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...Birds can testify. The concept behind this particular bird-brained scheme was to allow members of the public free entry to screenings, as long as they were wearing the mask, and as long as they could match a number printed on the back of the mask with a list at the cinema box office. It can only be imagined that the sight of couples parading...
 
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The Happening meets The Birds: Alfred Hitchcock + Barbie = Awesome

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2008-06-22 16:43:21 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
...Birds. It's no secret that Shyamalan is a fan of the master of psychological horror What The Happening and The Birds have in common is also what made The Day After Tomorrow so effective: they tap into our fear that after messing with Mother Nature, she will turn on us. The idea behind The Happening, that trees and plants will revolt to...
 
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George Clooney Is For The Birds

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2008-10-28 16:45:15 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
...Birds. We get the skinny thanks to our friends at cinematical First came Naomi Watts as a possible replacement for Tippi Hedren in that long-brewing remake of The Birds. Now a rumor straight from Metro.co.uk claims that George Clooney might play Mitch Bremner. It seems that the original Mitch, Rod Taylor, told the Daily Express: I often...
 
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Birds of America

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2008-07-29 09:55:00 by Pacze Moj in Critical Culture
...Birds of America isn't anything like that What we get, instead, is a very "indie" film about a screwed-up family coming together and (kind of) sorting out their screw-ups while learning to know themselves and love each other. What's annoying about these types of films is that, much like "indie" music, they're all 90-95% the same: a...
 
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Review: Young Birds Fly (2007)

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2007-12-05 11:03:12 by modculture in Cinedelica
...Birds Fly is the first feature length film from Mod enthusiast and California State University graduate Flores and is the story of young quiet American girl, Jill, who blossoms into the Los Angeles Mod scene The film tells a detailed tale of Jills transition as she discovers the joy and amazement of the Mod scenethe music, the dance moves,...
 
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George Clooney is for The Birds?

2008-10-27 17:29:50 by Sean in Film Junk
 
...Birds . Yes, its another perfect example of a classic that probably shouldnt be touched, but at this point weve just got to accept that its happening whether we like it or not. A more interesting question is, what would it take to get you interested in a new version of The Birds? What if it didnt star the usual unknown young model types but...
 
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Let the birds nest in your hair

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2007-12-23 07:42:00 by Edward Copeland in Edward Copeland on Film
...birds from flying over your head, but you can stop them from nesting in your hair." Throughout the rest of the film, the birds are flying and landing all over the place. Determined to woo Fredrik back and get the crazy count out of her life for good, Desiree and the countess plot to bring all the various players to Desiree's mother's estate...
 
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Sundance Review: Birds of America

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2008-01-30 00:00:00 by Kim Voynar in Cinematical
...Birds of America , directed by playwright Craig Lucas, has dysfunction in abundance. Morrie (Matthew Perry), who raised his younger siblings Jay (Ben Foster) and Ida (Ginnifer Goodwin) after their father's death, now lives in the family home with his wife, Betty (Lauren Graham). Morrie is a college prof desperately seeking tenure, and the...
 
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