Psycho to The 39 Steps: on set with Alfred Hitchcock – in pictures
The innovative director made a string of suspense-filled classics. Here, in images from Alfred Hitchcock: The Complete Films, we see him telling actors how to faint, wear handcuffs – and play an icy blonde
April 2018
My favourite film decade
From The Wizard of Oz to Top Hat – why the 1930s is my favourite film decade
Depression-era audiences escaped into a whirl of glamour, fantasy and monsters in a decade that ushered in Hollywood’s golden age
December 2016
Flying Scotsman: a journey in slow television
An hour-long television special of a real time train journey through England hopes to be ‘absorbing for its own sake’
July 2012
My favourite Hitchcock film
My Favourite Hitchcock: The 39 Steps
Tony Paley: Before Psycho and North by Northwest, Hitchcock's 1935 thriller The 39 Steps was serving up some of cinema's most seminal moments. Here is a handful of highlights from the film
June 2012
My favourite Hitchcock film
My favourite Hitchcock film: The 39 Steps by AL Kennedy
AL Kennedy explains how Hitchcock's 1935 thriller persuaded her that a relationship should begin with inexplicable kissing, running and shared peril
