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  • Romance and laughter is Romedy Now’s agenda this New Year

    Romance and laughter is Romedy Now’s agenda this New Year

    MUMBAI: Romedy Now heralds a joyful 2015, and presents a smashing line-up of amazing movies and popular series all this month.
     
    Romedy at 9 brings an incredible line-up of the sweetest movies every night at 9pm featuring popular favorites like The Romantics, Monte Carlo, The Rebound, The Sweetest Thing, Something Borrowed, Just My Luck and many more all this month.
     
    Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) discovers the power of a mother’s love in the uplifting film The Blindside. Which is an award-winning performance from Sandra Bullock.

     
    This New Year, Romedy at First Sight brings in a scintillating collection of heartwarming movies premiering for the first time on the channel. And the catalog consists of Something’s Gotta Give, Hitchcock, Tin Cup, Must Love Dogs, Yogi Bear and many more only on Romedy at First Sight this January.

     
    Besides a good set of movies Romedy Now also has intriguingly captivating series comprising of Dharma & Greg, F.R.I.E.N.D.S. and Better Off Ted. Whether you’re giggling at Dharma’s witty quips in Dharma & Greg or guffawing at Chandler’s inspired one-liners in F.R.I.E.N.D.S, you won’t be able to resist sharing the laughter this January.   

     
    Raising the entertainment quotient this year, Romedy Now brings in a good conglomeration of fresh and contemporary.

     

  • Kim Novak, Guest of Honour at the 66th Festival de Cannes

    Kim Novak, Guest of Honour at the 66th Festival de Cannes

    To mark the restoration of one of the masterpieces of world cinema, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, the Festival de Cannes has invited its heroine, Kim Novak, to grace the event with her presence.

    Novak will attend the screening of Vertigo, filmed in 1958, which will be shown in its restored form as part of Cannes Classics.

    She will also take part in the closing ceremony for the 66th Festival de Cannes where she will award one of the Prizes on Sunday 26 May 2013.

    Novak first attended the Festival in 1959 for the presentation of Middle of the Night by Delbert Mann (Palme d’or 1955 for Marty).

    Her most memorable roles included the prostitute with a big heart in Kiss Me, Stupid by Billy Wilder, the witch in Richard Quine’s Bell Book and Candle and the adulteress in another Quine film, Strangers When We Meet. But Kim Novak’s greatest performance was surely as the disturbing heroine of Vertigo, 1958 – Hitchock’s finest film, which he described as “a love story with a strange atmosphere.”

    Of her role, Kim Novak said, “What was interesting was that the scene reflected what I was going through at the time: it was the story of a woman who was forced to be someone she wasn’t.” Unwilling to accept the iron rule of the studios, she left Hollywood prematurely in order to devote herself to painting.

  • Hitchcock to premiere at AFI fest

    Hitchcock to premiere at AFI fest

    MUMBAI: The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced that the film ‘Hitchcock‘, starring Oscar winners Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Helen Mirren as his wife and Alma Reville, Scarlett Johansson as actress Janet Leigh, Jessica Biel as actress Vera Miles and James D‘Arcy as actor Anthony Perkins ‘Psycho‘ will have its World Premiere on 1 November , as the Opening Night Gala of this year‘s fest presented by Audi.

    The film is directed by Sacha Gervasi and also stars Toni Collette, Danny Huston and Michael Stuhlbarg.

    Fox Searchlight Pictures will release the film in November. The film a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock, and his wife and partner, Alma Reville, takes place during the making of the director‘s seminal 1960 movie, ‘Psycho‘.

    AFI president, CEO Bob Gazzale said, "AFI‘s history with Alfred Hitchcock is a proud one, from a Master Seminar at the AFI Conservatory in 1970 to his receiving the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979. We are honored to celebrate his lasting legacy with the World Premiere of Hitchcock – a bloody valentine to his creative genius and the inspired woman at his side."

    AFI Fest director Jacqueline Lyanga said, "Alfred Hitchcock‘s signature style has made him one of the most influential directors in the world. This film pulls back the curtain and takes us behind-the-scenes of his lifelong collaboration with his wife Alma during the making of his 1960 masterpiece ‘Psycho‘ – it‘s the perfect film to welcome our audience of movie-lovers with on opening night."

    Alfred Hitchcock was the recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979. Four of his movies rank among the greatest films of all time on AFI‘s 100 Years…100 Movies list: Vertigo (#9), Psycho (#14), Rear Window (#48) and North By Northwest (#55). In addition, ‘Psycho‘ was ranked number one on AFI‘s list of most heart pounding American films and, in a serendipitous turn, the Norman Bates character portrayed by Anthony Perkins in ‘Psycho‘ was ranked number two on AFI‘s Top Villains list – just behind Anthony Hopkins‘ Hannibal Lecter in ‘The Silence Of The Lambs‘.

  • Jessica Biel to play Vera Miles in Hitchcock film

    Jessica Biel to play Vera Miles in Hitchcock film

    MUMBAI: Jessica Biel will play actress Vera Miles in Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho. James D‘Arcy is being asked to join the cast to play the role of Anthony Perkins.

    The film has Anthony Hopkins playing Hitchcock while Helen Mirren will play his wife, Alma.

    It may be remembered that Miles played Lila Crane, the heroine of the 1960 horror classic who visits the Bates Motel in search of her missing sister Janet Leigh, the role to be portrayed by Scarlett Johansson.

  • Jessica Biel in Hitchock film

    Jessica Biel in Hitchock film

    MUMBAI: Hollywood actress Jessica Biel will play Vera Miles in Sacha Gervasi‘s Alfred Hitchock and the Making of Psycho.

    The 30-year-old has joined an all-star cast including Scarlett Johansson as screen icon Janet Leigh and Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock in the film that will be directed by Gervasi, it is understood.
     
    Miles played the role of Lila Kane, the sister of Janet‘s character in 1960‘s Psycho.
     
    Psycho was nominated for four Oscars upon its release. Biel will next be seen in the remake of ‘Total Recall‘ opposite Colin Farrell.

  • Hitchcock film screened after 80 years

    Hitchcock film screened after 80 years

    MUMBAI: The White Shadow, an Alfred Hitchcock film, that was found in a garden shed in New Zealand was has been released after nearly 80 years of its making. The film was being shown at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Samuel Goldwyn Theatre.

    David Sterritt, chairman of the National Society of Film Critics, described the discovery as “one of the most significant developments in memory”.

    “These first three reels offer a priceless opportunity to study his visual and narrative ideas when they were first taking shape,” he was quoted as saying.

    The director was just 24 when he wrote, edited, designed and assistant-directed the silent film, it is understood.

    The only known print of Hitchcock‘s silent film lay in a garden shed in the North Island town of Hastings for decades. The film was part of a collection by Jack Murtagh, a cinema projectionist.