The Birds (1963)

Review: The Birds (1963)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright,

Tippi Hedren
Tippi Hedren
Rod Taylor
Rod Taylor
Jessica Tandy
Jessica Tandy
Suzanne Pleshette
Suzanne Pleshette
Veronica Cartwright
Veronica Cartwright

Plot: Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.

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Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s <i>The Birds</i> (1963)

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963)

Despite truly dismal digital projection a recent big-screen viewing of The Birds reconfirms its status as one of Hitchcock’s finest films, and one of the best disaster films ever […]

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Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part one

Viewing notes, March-April 2015: part one

Recent viewing includes the big-budget Furious 7 and the smaller but better It Follows, as well as a collection of older genre movies on […]

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Entering Other Worlds, part 2

Entering Other Worlds, part 2

When I mentioned to a friend that I was writing these posts about one-off sci-fi movies by mainstream filmmakers, he pointed out that I’d left Norman Jewison off the list. I readily pleaded guilty, my only excuse being that I’d […]

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