Sentences with phrase «strangers on a train»

Studies show that people who connect with other human beings, even strangers on a train or in the checkout line, report brighter moods.

Since her adventures in 1996, online dating has become the best way to find love, certainly for anyone over the age of 25 with typical British social skills - that is, they'd rather poke themselves in the eye with a dirty stick than approach an attractive stranger on the train.

Film adaptations of Highsmith's work include The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train, and Todd Haynes» upcoming film, Carol, starring Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett.

Co-adapted by Raymond Chandler from a novel by Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train perfectly exemplifies Hitchcock's favorite theme of the evil that lurks just below the surface of everyday life and ordinary men.

Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train is an expertly made thriller with fluid camera work, dark humor and enough cliff - hanging build up to keep you biting your nails until there's nothing left.

Especially Strangers on a Train.

Though rife with clichés that will surprise very few, The Guest benefits from the Wingard / Barrett embracing of genre tropes, giving us a villain that can also be seen as a dark savior / twisted guardian angel, reminiscent of a few Hitchcock villains, a la The Lodger, Shadow of a Doubt, and Strangers on a Train.

The works of author Patricia Highsmith have been crafted into some truly great films including Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train and Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley.

The spinning of the merry - go - round in Strangers on a Train also falls into this category.

In the early 50s he got off to a slow start with Stage Fright and I Confess but in between created the black and white thriller Strangers on a Train.

The three friends, with Dean's help, come up with a plan straight out of Alfred Hitchock's «Stranger On A Train» and... absolutely nothing... goes as planned.

The late author Patricia Highsmith is best known for her suspense thrillers (Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley), but her most beguiling story is actually a tender Ike - era lesbian romance between a teenage shopgirl and a divorcing New Jersey socialite.

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It seems fairly obvious what roles each thesp will take with the promise of a character driven period drama featuring the two highly exciting considering what Crowley was able to do with «Boy A.» We're not familiar with the source material, but it sounds more melodrama than her usual thriller (the author, of course, was the writer of «Strangers On A Train» and «The Talented Mr. Ripley «-RRB-.

With the big Universal Hitchcock «Masterpiece» box set bumped a month to the end of October, a pair of Warner Hitchcock Blu - ray debuts now arrive ahead of the set: Dial M For Murder 3D (Warner), which includes a standard Blu - ray version, and Strangers on a Train (Warner), one of Hitch's greatest films.

4:45 p.m. (1:45 p.m.): «Strangers on a Train» (1951, Alfred Hitchcock).

Flynn is currently re-teaming with David Fincher on updating a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train with Ben Affleck eyeing a lead role.

5 p.m. March 16: «Strangers on a Train» (1951, 101 min.)

Strangers on a Train comes in two cuts here: the final 101 - minute release version and the 103 - minute «preview version» (though the second could just as easily be taken as an extra feature and not a main course).

It's an unconscionable and completely inappropriate suggestion — the kind that only someone with Amanda's blunt, cold - bloodedly pragmatic attitude could make, although it's just the sort of hypothetical that attracts us to the works of «Strangers on a Train» novelist Patricia Highsmith, or more outrageously, films like «Jawbreaker» and «Heathers,» whose influence can also be found lurking beneath this movie's elegant surface.

Strangers on a Train, though undoubtedly effective as a classic Hitchcock thriller, is also nothing more complicated than one elongated gay cruise joke - cum - horror story.

It's debatable how much of this queer subtext Hitchcock intended Strangers on a Train to hold (especially taking into consideration the rumor that many of the homo - coded elements of Chandler's original script were reportedly neutered in Ormonde's final shooting script).

Strangers on a Train is the exception.

They are anti-heroes, not because they make a pact to mimic the plot of Strangers on a Train (plus one crisscross) to kill the supervisor of the other in an attempt to eliminate obvious motive from themselves, but because they are entirely incompetent from the moment they hypothesize such a plan could work.

Meanwhile, Ben Affleck and others from the «Gone Girl» team are remaking Alfred Hitchcock's «Strangers on a Train.»

A pair of gray suede gloves abandoned on a department store counter; a small 35 mm still camera obscuring a woman's face except for her eyes; an electric train set; a finger on the disconnect button of a telephone; an ungloved, well - manicured hand resting briefly on another woman's shoulder: Todd Haynes's Carol is not a Hitchcockian thriller, although it is adapted from the second novel by Patricia Highsmith, whose first, Strangers on a Train, was the basis for one of the master of suspense's great movies.

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The late, great American writer Patricia Highsmith (1921 - 1995)-- best known for books like Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley — was a virtuoso in the art of psychological unease.

More than anything else, «Tom A La Ferme» is reminiscent of the work of «Strangers On A Train» and «The Talented Mr Ripley» author Patricia Highsmith.

Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 film adaptation of her novel, «Strangers on a Train,» which she published in 1950, put her career on the fast track.

«I'd been watching a lot of Hitchcock before I made the film — the earlier Hollywood ones like Notorious, Strangers on a Train — and wanted to try to think of the film as a Hitchcockian thriller,» the filmmaker had revealed in the same interview.

Part revisionist melodrama and postmodernist Douglas Sirk - style weepie, Carol is adapted by Phyllis Nagy (Mrs. Harris) from Patricia Highsmith's (Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley) 1952 pulp novel, The Price of Salt, itself a decidedly outré lesbian love story and the only non-crime novel she ever penned.

Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt was published early, her second novel after Strangers on a Train, under a pseudonym; it told the story of a passionate romance between two women, a subject that, of course, could get the author into trouble back in 1952.

Strangers on a Train and Shadow of a Doubt (May 11 - 13) is the pairing to see first if you've never seen a Hitchcock film.

10:00 pm / 9:00 pm — TCM — Strangers on a Train Farley Granger meets Robert Walker on a train and jokes with him about exchanging murders — Granger's unloved wife (who is in the way of Granger's love for Ruth Roman) for Walker's tyrannical father.

As a talented writer, Patricia Highsmith has been responsible for the source material of some great film adaptations; Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley and Hossein Amini's The Two Faces of January are a notable few.

The old Strangers on a Train formula.

Next up with five behind - the - scene featurettes, including «Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic», which is a nice chat with Peter Bogdanovich and a few others about film.

Or «hitched,» as in Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train».

In the latest Oscar Isaac vehicle, Mojave, director William Monaghan recycles the familiar tale of one man's seemingly chance encounter with a menacing stranger — a trope that was perfected more than six decades ago by Alfred Hitchcock in his 1951 masterpiece Strangers on a Train.

«Strangers on a Train» has always been one of my favorite Hitchcock pictures.

«Strangers on a Train: The Victim's P.O.V.» looks into the shot uses for Laura Elliot in the film (one of my favorite shots).

Mainstream audiences should like it, but most of them probably won't love it (as they did with the book) or become obsessed with it, the way they might with, say, Hitchcock «s train - riding masterpiece, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN.

It's that obsession for the «Hitchcock blonde» that leads to the discovery of a few sticky head shots in Hitch's den, and for the everlasting resentment of mousy wife Alma (not - mousy Helen Mirren), who decides to have her own fling with failed writer Whitfield Cook (Danny Huston)-- one of several credited writers on Hitchcock's Stage Fright and Strangers on a Train, though Hitchcock doesn't mention that.

IMDB Link: Strangers on a Train DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 DVD Extras: Two movie versions, 5 trailers, silent newsreel.

Highsmith was forced to publish it under a pseudonym, Claire Morgan, the lesbian content of the tome so diametrically different than the tricky theatrics of Strangers on a Train the publisher, as well as the author, feared the controversial nature of the story could derail a promising career before it even had the opportunity to begin.

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Of course, Strangers on a Train (1951) makes the motif central, with Guy Haines (Farley Granger) and Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) first meeting with the camera parallel to the train, opposed to the more common framing again its window.

This week TCM's list includes the spine - tingling masterpiece «Strangers on a Train» and the lesser - known but compelling melodrama «The Strange Love of Martha Ivers,» plus noir highlights by and with ace actors like Humphrey Bogart, Robert Ryan, Robert Mitchum, recent birthday gal Barbara Stanwyck, Lizabeth Scott, and Audrey Totter, brilliant writers like Patricia Highsmith, W. R. Burnett and Cornell Woolrich, and directors like Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph H. Lewis, Phil Karlson and Anthony Mann.

«Strangers on a Train» (1951, Alfred Hitchcock).