Tag Archives: Alfred Hitchcock

Sean Connery: 10 Of His Best Non-Bond Roles

November 4, 2020 flawintheiris

Sean Connery died on Saturday, October 31, at age 90. The Scottish actor was the first cinematic James Bond, and for many will always be the greatest — defining the mix of suave, stylish, sexy, and ruthless for a generation of fans. While so much of what he did with that character is easy to… Read More

Rebecca (1940/2020) review — Traditional melodrama worth seeing in two versions

November 3, 2020 flawintheiris

Rebecca | Directed by Alfred Hitchcock | Written by Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison, and Philip MacDonald, from the novel by Daphne Du Maurier | 130 min The Hitchcock original remained unseen by me until recently — all I knew was it was his first Hollywood picture, and it won Best Picture over films like… Read More

Revisiting Carbon Arc’s Winter 2016 Season

August 9, 2020 flawintheiris

Twice a year since I began volunteering and programming with Carbon Arc Cinema some six years ago, I revisit the list season's films that showed at the 72-seat screen auditorium. That's because Carbon Arc has two distinct seasons — Fall into Winter, from the end of September to early December, and Winter to Spring, from… Read More

Carbon Arc Reviews: The Winter/Spring 2016 Season

May 12, 2016 flawintheiris

Regular readers will know that for most of the past year I've been working at Halifax's Independent Cinema, Carbon Arc. At the beginning of 2016, I took on the role of Writer-in-Residence, writing on the site blog about the films we were watching and describing audience reactions. Reaching out to a growing community of cinephiles. At… Read More

LENS ME YOUR EARS: Ep. 019 “New Filmmakers”

May 2, 2016 flawintheiris

The podcast I co-host with Stephen Cooke is back after a brief hiatus with a show about up-and-coming filmmakers who've caught our attention. Included in the discussion are Jeff Nichols, Jean-Marc Vallée, Denis Villeneuve, Jeremy Saulnier, Ryan Coogler, and many more. Check it out, and our other recent LENS ME YOUR EARS podcasts, here on… Read More