What images flit across your mind when you think about Alfred Hitchcock? The English master of suspense in profile, a with a cigar? Birds accosting Tippi Hendren as she screams? There's no doubt that ...

Rope (1948) Rope is a 1948 American psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton. The film was adapted by Hume Cronyn ...

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 ...

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, we revisit Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1948 thriller Rope, long cited as a thinly veiled queer allegory. Every ...

Perhaps the most chilling fact about "Rope," which had its world premiere Oct. 10 at Hartford Stage, is that many believe it was inspired by a real crime. In 1924, two affluent students, inspired by ...

It’s a dilemma actors and directors face all the time: People come to the theater to see a popular title that’s also a film and expect to see the movie essentially re-created onstage. When that play ...