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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, often nicknamed "The Master of Suspense". He pioneered many elements of the suspense and psychological thriller genres. He had a successful career in British cinema with both silent films and early talkies and became renowned as England's best director. Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in 1939 and became a US citizen in 1955.
Over a career spanning half a century, Hitchcock fashioned for himself a recognisable directorial style. His stylistic trademarks include the use of camera movement that mimics a person's gaze, forcing viewers to engage in a form of voyeurism. In addition, he framed shots to maximise anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used innovative forms of film editing. His work often features fugitives on the run alongside "icy blonde" female characters. Many of Hitchcock's films have twist endings and thrilling plots featuring depictions of murder and other violence. Many of the mysteries, however, are used as decoys or "MacGuffins" that serve the films' themes and the psychological examinations of their characters. Hitchcock's films also borrow many themes from psychoanalysis and sometimes feature strong sexual overtones. He became a highly visible public figure through interviews, movie trailers, cameo appearances in his own films, and the ten years in which he hosted the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In 1978, film critic John Russell Taylor described Hitchcock as "the most universally recognizable person in the world", and "a straightforward middle-class Englishman who just happened to be an artistic genius."
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (born 31 December 1937), is a Welsh actor of film, stage, and television, and a composer and painter. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre. In 1968, he got his break in film in The Lion in Winter, playing Richard I.
Considered to be one of the greatest living actors, Hopkins is well known for his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, its sequel Hannibal, and the prequel Red Dragon. Other notable films include The Mask of Zorro, The Bounty, Meet Joe Black, The Elephant Man, Magic, 84 Charing Cross Road, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Legends of the Fall, Thor, The Remains of the Day, Amistad, Nixon, The World's Fastest Indian, Instinct, and Fracture.
Along with his Academy Award, Hopkins has won three BAFTA Awards, two Emmys, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, and was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2008.
Actors: Tara-Nicole Azarian (writer), Robert W. Filion (editor), Tara-Nicole Azarian (actress), Vanelle (actress), Robert W. Filion (producer), Duane A. Sikes (producer), Tara-Nicole Azarian (director), Jenny-Lynn Waugh Azarian (producer), Nicholas Azarian (actor), Dave Tunik (actor), Cindy W. Filion (miscellaneous crew), Ed Azarian Jr. (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Short, Thriller,Actors: Sean Guess (actor), Bob Cleary (writer), Bob Cleary (producer), Bob Cleary (actor), Chris Eilenstine (editor), Chris Eilenstine (director), Stephen Hirsekorn (writer), Stephen Hirsekorn (actor), Stephen Hirsekorn (producer), Michael Chartier (actor), Amanda Policastro (actress), Tania Joseph (actress), Joe Bagnole (actor), Gina Shuster (actress), Jeff Tureaud (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Nancy Hanks (producer), Nancy Hanks (editor), Nancy Hanks (director), Nancy Hanks (composer), Steve Gelder (actor), Luciana Lagana (actress), Gregory Graham (actor), Craig C. Chen (actor), Vanessa Bednar (actress), Shalonda Shaw (actress), Holly Beavon (actress), Alistair McKenzie (actor), Susan R. Upperco (producer), Susan R. Upperco (actress), Linda Simeone (writer),
Genres: Fantasy,Actors: John Johnson (producer), John Johnson (writer), Monique Dupree (actress), John Johnson (editor), John Johnson (actor), John Johnson (director), Kevin MacLeod (composer), John Johnson (composer), Brian Wimer (actor), John R. Price II (miscellaneous crew), Angela Pritchett (actress), Mariah Smith (actress), Neil Wagner (editor), Gary Carper (miscellaneous crew), April Monique Burril (actress),
Genres: Horror, Short,Actors: Aftab Shivdasani (writer), Shah Rukh Khan (actor), Johnny Lever (actor), Rati Agnihotri (actress), Suhasini Mulay (actress), Aftab Shivdasani (producer), Aftab Shivdasani (actor), Tiku Talsania (actor), Yatin Karyekar (actor), Steven H. Bernard (editor), Ankur Tewari (composer), Dilawar Singh Rana (miscellaneous crew), Aamna Shariff (actress), Namrata Oberoi (producer), Pushtii Shakti (actress),
Plot: Twelve-year old Mickey Mehra lives a middle-classed lifestyle in Simla along with his father, Vikas, mother, Nisha, and sister, Mini. He is friendly with Bonny and Hitchcock, has a crush on 22-year old Mitika, and wishes that he was older so that he could woo and marry her. Hitchcock takes him to a wishing well, asks him to make a wish, and shortly thereafter Mickey turns into a six-foot tall 22-year old male. He leaves home hurriedly, moves in with Bonny, gets hired by Tiku Malhotra, acquaints himself with Mitika and both fall in love with each other. Complications arise when his distraught parents face bankruptcy, while his wish is on the verge of expiry - reverting him back to being a 12-year old again - with no chance of ever getting married to his sweetheart.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance,Actors: Robert Rosenberg (actor), Jan Nemejovský (actor), Dagmar Patrasová (actress), Jaroslav Dusek (actor), Michal Hýka (editor), Jan Dolanský (actor), Marek Dobes (director), Marek Dobes (producer), Kamil Svejda (actor), Tomás Baldýnský (actor), Stepán Kopriva (writer), Radek Auer (miscellaneous crew), Anna Fialkova (actress), Frantisek Fuka (composer), Vladka Polácková (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Horror,Actors: Dave Nichols (actor), Shawn Ashmore (actor), Alberta Watson (actress), Jonathan Whittaker (actor), Christian Potenza (actor), Tom Strnad (editor), Aaron Ashmore (actor), Aaron Ashmore (actor), James McGowan (actor), Doug McGrath (actor), Eric Birnberg (miscellaneous crew), Eric Birnberg (producer), Sean Cisterna (miscellaneous crew), Thomas Mark Walden (producer), Sean Cisterna (producer),
Genres: Drama, Sport,Actors: Vladimír Brabec (actor), Jan Hrusínský (actor), Robert Jasków (actor), Vladimír Skultéty (actor), Michal David (actor), Marek Dobes (director), Marek Dobes (writer), Stepán Kopriva (director), Stepán Kopriva (writer), Tomás Baldýnský (actor), Frantisek Fuka (composer), Frantisek Fuka (actor), Jirí Pavlovský (writer), Pavel Kopecky (actor), Jakub Prochazka (actor),
Plot: Pavel and Eva are two teenagers who live a happy life full of McDonald's food, action movies and pop music. But one night, Pavel stumbles upon a secret gathering of intellectuals in the woods on his way to the video store. Not wanting to be discovered, the intellectuals attack him and the chief intellectual bites him in the leg. Some times later, he begins changing... Will the power of television, Eva's love and pop star Michal David's music save him from the intellectuals' evil clutches?
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Short,Actors: Guy J. Louthan (actor), Juliet Mills (actress), Zach Galligan (actor), Bruce Campbell (actor), Drew Barrymore (actress), Frank Zagarino (actor), Martin Kemp (actor), Maxwell Caulfield (actor), David Carradine (actor), Anthony Hickox (actor), Patrick Macnee (actor), John Ireland (actor), George 'Buck' Flower (actor), Anthony Hickox (writer), Marina Sirtis (actress),
Plot: The couple that survives the wax museum in "Waxwork" is followed by a dismembered hand, which kills the girl's father, for which she must stand trial (those lawyer types are shrewd, they weren't going for that dismembered-hand stuff). She and her boyfriend go to Sir Wilfred's house for clues, where they find a film he has prepared for them, pointing the way to his secret evil-thing-fighting stash. They grab the time machine compass thingy and go back in time to look for evidence that the girl is telling the truth, and get embroiled in different conflicts along the way.
Keywords: alice-in-wonderland, alien, angry-mob, artifact, attorney, axe, beer-drinking, bible, bitch-slap, black-magicActors: Frances Sternhagen (actress), Diana Rigg (actress), Katherine Helmond (actress), Tracey Walter (actor), Barnard Hughes (actor), Arthur Hiller (director), Stephen Elliott (actor), Stockard Channing (actress), Sab Shimono (actor), George C. Scott (actor), Dennis Dugan (actor), Christopher Guest (actor), Richard Dysart (actor), Don Record (miscellaneous crew), Robert Walden (actor),
Plot: Herbert Bock is chief of medicine in a major teaching hospital. His wife has left him, he is impotent and his children have both disowned him. He is toying with the idea of suicide when patients begin dying, not from complications, but from the erroneous treatments the Hospital is giving them. People in the wrong beds are given wrong medicines, sent to operating theaters for incorrect surgery, and found in waiting rooms dead of natural causes. Barbara Drummond has come to take her comatose father back to the Sioux reservation where he operates a clinic and they each reach out to each other for emotional support, as a shadowy figure stalks the patients and staff of the hospital.
Keywords: anti-hero, black-comedy, chaos, cynicism, dead-doctor, dead-nurse, dead-patient, death-on-operating-table, doctor, drugs