MOVIE: If you've never seen anything from Matthew Barney's Cremaster series, then cancel all plans tonight because you've got new ones. Barney's Cremaster 2 is screening tonight (no need to see these films in order), and you will be visually dazzled. While it's not plot-heavy, the Guggenheim describes it as "a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system." 8pm // Austrian Cultural Forum [11 East 52nd St] // Free THEATER: Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935......

Photo by Alastair Muir. Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 black and white spy thriller The 39 Steps has been given a vividly colorful stage adaptation by a troupe of four British actors who’ve brought their madcap show to Broadway after an award-winning run on the West End. Adapted from a 1915 novel by John Buchan, the movie concerns the dashing but vague Richard Hannay, who gets ensnared in a deadly game of cat and mouse after shots......

Known for her smoky voice and role as Bob Newhart's no-nonsense wife in The Bob Newhart Show, Suzanne Pleshette died at age 70 last night. Pleshette had suffered from lung cancer in recent years. Pleshette was born in NYC and attended LaGuardia High School, aka the High School for the Performing Arts. She started on Broadway in 1957, eventually replacing Anne Bancroft in The MIracle Worker, and started to star in some TV series around......

Tom Snyder died today, at age 71, after losing a long battle with leukemia. There are many videos with footage of his long career, because just about everyone wanted to talk to him (especially on "The Tomorrow Show" which aired after Johnny Carson in the '70s and '80s). Throughout his career he interviewed Kiss, argued with Howard Stern and Cosell...and if you watch this video you'll see plenty of others who found themselves sitting across......

NYC Noir Film Forum Every now and then living in this teeming modern city, we get a glimpse down a side street or inside a dilapidated old joint and can see "what was." Starting tonight a five week series devoted to New York City Noir at Film Forum is also looking backward through New York's movie history to a time when women were dames, men were gumshoes and everything on the mean streets just seemed......

It's that time of the year again: When Hollywood honors its moviemaking the way it knows (and not always in equitable ways, given that Alfred Hitchcock nor Robert Altman, to name a few, have never won Directing Oscars) and America gets to watch hours of pre-show hosted by idiots. Giving commentary for Gothamist this year, Karen Wilson, Margaret Harper, and Jen Chung. 7:06PM First thoughts: Gael Garcia Bernal is so cute. Ryan Seacrest is an......

Two quite controversial and buzzed about movies hit New York theaters this weekend. So far the critical opinion of raving lunatic Mel Gibson's new foreign language feature, Apocalypto, seems to be pretty favorable. The movie about a Mayan family man and the invading nearby tribe, sounds like it is painstakingly composed but has quite a bit of gratuitous, sadistic violence. Lisa Schwartzbaum in EW even calls it "the weirdest, most violent movie of the year,"......

For fans of director David Lynch, part of the fun of seeing any of his movies is trying to sort out meaning in his labyrinthian plots. Tonight at the IFC Center, audiences will get the chance to understand a bit more of what's going on inside the mind of the man as he presents Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo as well as one of his short films. As a part of the IFC Center's Movie Night program......

Robert Altman, maverick film director, died on Monday night in Los Angeles. He was 81 years old. Altman had recently been promoting the DVD release of A Praire Home Companion, a film in which the movie studio hired Paul Thomas Anderson to be an assistant director in case, as Altman put it, he kicked the bucket. He had been nominated five times for best director at the Academy Awards, but never won one (a......

Last summer, audiences fell hard for Owen Wilson's aging frat boy with a heart of gold routine in The Wedding Crashers. This weekend, he brings his lunkhead prat falls to the comedy You, Me and Dupree with co-stars Matt Dillon, Kate Hudson and Michael Douglas. From the previews it looks like most of the humor is scatological in nature but do you really need anything more complex in an A/C-tastic cineplex? Another movie up that......

MOVIES: Don't forget, the Bryant Park movies start tonight! The movie won't begin until sunset - which is about the same time the rain and thunder are scheduled to begin. Tonights features in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller, The Birds. Be an early bird (heh) and get there at 5 for a good spot on the lawn! 5pm // Bryant Park // Free ART: Like Sculpture? Like to hear people talk about it? Then attend MoMA's On......

ART: papermag.com celebrates it's 10th year with Manhattan! We recently had a chance to stop by this group exhibition which features over 75 Big Apple-based artists from past to present, and have never enjoyed a gallery show more (of course, it was the opening and they were passing out champagne with Red Bull in it.) The loose theme of the show is "People of New York." To the right is the Yeah Yeah Yeah's Nick......

It’s that time of the year again – that special time you brave New York’s notoriously humid and sticky summer to battle for one more blanket inch on a crowded park lawn. This year’s free outdoor movie festivals – RiverFlicks, Riverside Park Movies Under the Stars, Brooklyn Music & Movies Series, and HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival–offer a wide range of musicals and old favorites, from The Sound of Music to The Big Lebowski......

With one of the largest moviegoing populations in the U.S, the City Council is making sure that New Yorkers can get the most out of their trips to the movies. Yesterday, a bill was proposed to make sure movie theaters list the actual movie start times - not when advertising and previews begin. City Councilwoman Gail Brewer told the media:"We can't outlaw advertising. But at least we can tell the industry that they have to......

As a part of their continuing series of classic movies on Thursdays, tonight the Clearview in Chelsea will be showing Alfred Hitchcock's brilliant North by Northwest (1959). Tickets only cost $5.50 (what a steal for a movie in Manhattan!) and the live pre-show event starts promptly at 7 pm. To get geared up, we bring you below a bit from the book-long conversation between French New Wave director and critic, François Truffaut and the Fat......

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A huge bust of Alfred Hitchcock was unveiled at Gainsbourough Studios in England, to celebrate the director and his work at the studio where some of his early films were made. Gothamist loves the sentiment, but is it just us or does he look more like an wider, wooden version of an Easter Island statue? That's director Anthony Minghella standing on the right; we can thank him for bringing together Jude and Nicole, Renee......

- Tourist muggings of late in the city. - Gothamist on the Angelika and art house moviegoing. - Blogs aren't alternative cool anymore? Damn it all. - Arguably the grossest post ever on Gothamist: Ladies and their boyfriends' zits. - Iguanas on the loose in Brooklyn! - Inside the apartment of Gizmodo. - One blogger's trials of cooking like Julia Child. - Alfred Hitchcock ain't alive, but Google celebrates his birthday. - Why are the......

Yes, today is Alfred Hitchcock's birthday. Gothamist finds the Google tribute funny, especially since we all know the bird will poop on Hitch's head, which is a nod for Hitch's fondness for poop humor. Google's Alfred Hitchcock search. Our favorite Hitchcock movies are Vertigo, Notorious, Rear Window, Marnie, North by Northwest, The Birds, Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train...hell, we'll take the whole canon. But top three: Notorious, Rear Window, and North......

Yay! Spellbound finally opens at Film Forum today! Gothamist has been following this spelling bee documentary for a while, and will try to make it to West Houston today to see it. A.O. Scott loves the film, and mentions, one contestant, "Harry, a voluble boy from New Jersey, who struggles with an Anglo-Saxon plural noun (to write it would be to spoil one of the film's most excruciating and hilarious moments) referring to a......