Alfred Molina was born in London on May 24‚ 1953.His mother‚ Giovanna‚ was an Italian house-keeper who cleaned rooms in a hotel and worked as a cook. His father‚ Esteban‚ was a Spanish immigrant from Madrid who worked as a waiter and chauffeur. He decided to become an actor after seeing Spartacus at the age of nine. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and later HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City. His stage work includes two major Royal National Theatre productions
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Psycho Analysis Psycho was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The horror film was made in the 1960s based on the novel Psycho by Robert Bloch. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures in 1960 to 1968 and then by Universal studios 1968 to present. The thriller illustrates the encounter of secretary Marian Crane played by Janet Leigh who is hiding in an abandoned motel and the motels owner Norman Bates played by Anthony Perkins‚ it then proceeds to describe the aftermath of their encounter. The
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Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was a fairly restrained young man‚ graduating from one of France’s most notable military academies‚ The Ecole Polytechnique. He was devoted to serving his country‚ and more importantly‚ to his wife and child. On what began as a characterless day in 1894‚ artillery officer Dreyfus was arrested under the pretenses that he was selling military secrets to a German attaché in Paris. The accusations were false‚ and there was no incriminating evidence against him‚ only that he was
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Taylor Hinzie 12/6/12 Period.5 Mr. Schley Alfred Eisenstaedt Eisenstaedt was born in Dirschau in West Prussia‚ Imperial Germany in 1898. His family moved to Berlin in 1906. Eisenstaedt was fascinated by photography from his youth and began taking pictures at age 14 when he was given his first camera‚ an Eastman Kodak Folding Camera with roll film. Eisenstaedt served in the German Army’s artillery during World War I‚ and was wounded in 1918. While working as a belt and button
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Alfred Hitchcock movie review Alfred Hitchcock was a brilliant technician who blended sex‚ suspense and humor. Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades. He remains one of the most popular and most recognized filmmakers‚ and his works are still popular today. Hitchcock was able to master not only the art of the film making but also the art of the psychological thriller. Hitchcock trademark techniques that made his film classics today include “Emotion”‚ “The
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Patrick Massey Professor Knight Rhetoric II‚ Section 26 March 14‚ 2011 Often‚ works of fiction are based on actual events‚ and this is the case with Alfred Hitchcock’s 1948 thriller‚ Rope‚ and the 1924 murder trial of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. Hitchcock envelops the audience in suspense in his portrayal of the bizarre murder case of Leopold and Loeb in which they murdered a fourteen-year-old boy for no apparent reason. In the movie‚ Brandon and Philip‚ two wealthy‚ smart men‚ decide
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“Mercy“ - Jussi Adler Olsen The crime novel “Mercy“ by the renomated danish author Jussi Adler Olsen is the first one from a book serie about the police detective Carl Morck and his assistant Hafez el-Assad. As a consequence of a failed operation‚ which takes place before the point from where the story starts‚ Carl Morck has been taken off homocide to run a newly created department for unsolved cases. His first case is concerned with the circumstances around the disappearance of Merete
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Alfred Binet Binet attended law school in Paris‚ and received his degree in 1878. He also studied Natural Sciences at the Sorbonne. His first formal job was as a researcher at a neurological clinic‚ Salpetriere Hospital‚ in Paris from 1883 – 1889. From there‚ Binet went on to being a researcher and associate director of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology at the Sorbonne from 1891 – 1894. In 1894‚ he was promoted to being the director of the laboratory until 1911 (his death). After receiving
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In many of Alfred Hitchcock’s films‚ we are able to see how specific periods influence his work. In the case of postwar era‚ Hitchcock is able to evoke the aftermath of World War II issues and themes through the sub-text of films like I Confess (Warner Brothers‚ 1953) and The Trouble with Harry (Paramount‚ 1955). Though each film is completely different from the other‚ stylistically‚ genre-wise‚ tone-wise‚ scenery-wise; they both revolve around death‚ albeit approached from an entirely different
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There were many great directors during the 19th century era of film‚ but one renowned filmmaker of that time was Alfred Hitchcock‚ who “is among the few directors whose films almost constitute a genre unto themselves‚ the suspense-filled “Hitchcock thriller” ’ (2 Dixon & Foster 102). In his career‚ Hitchcock directed many films from the late 1920s to the early 1970s‚ before dying in the 1980s (1Biography.com Editors 1). His first feature film‚ in Hollywood‚ was Rebecca (1939)‚ and then he went on
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