“Of all the arts the most important for us is cinema”, wrote Russian revolutionary and communist leader Vladimir Lenin in 1922, and he was correct. After seizing control of the largest country in the world, one of the top priorities for the Bolsheviks was conveying to a largely illiterate population just what Communism was. In […]
Discover Tuesdays at Picturehouse Cinemas There is a certain kind of old Hollywood glamour in North by Northwest that, these days, no one would accept in modern film. Mistaken identities, murder in the UN headquarters, and microfilm being smuggled out the country in priceless antiques – these sounds like tired clichés to even the most […]
It is almost beyond argument within the world of cinema to say that Alfred Hitchcock is one of the greatest film makers of the 20th century. Aside from his more renowned masterpieces such as Psycho- an incredible thriller bursting with intrigue and suspense- Hitchcock single-handedly redefined the thriller genre with the most basic necessities needed […]