Alfred Hitchcock

Under the glow of a waxing crescent, San Francisco Symphony conjured the raucous spirit of Halloween on Oct. 28 for the “Frankenstein and Psycho” concert.

“Decision to Leave” indulges in fluidity — in ever-shifting conceptions of others and the self.

The movie is thickly coated in references to ‘90s era classics, from “Clueless” to “Mean Girls” to “10 Things I Hate About You.”

An overbearing soundscape tries to compensate for the film’s glum, inserting acoustic chaos when the drama doesn’t translate to the screen. 

This newest reproduction of “Rebecca,” directed by Ben Wheatley, is a gilded tchotchke: beautiful aesthetics elevating mediocre substance.

Some of the most important works in the horror genre are retroactively letting the skeletons out of the closet, and this raises an inevitable question: Now that we’re out, where do we stand?

With “The Post,” regardless of any issues with its storytelling, Spielberg’s purposefulness reminds me why I swoon for the long take in the first place.

In honor of this famous collaboration between Hitchcock and the Bay Area, the Pacific Film Archive conducted a special screening of the psychological pulse-pounder with a rarely seen, IB tech print that would have been one of the originals seen in multiplexes across the nation when it first premiered.