Fifty Great Openings, Silent Hitchcock, Appreciating Scorsese

• Fifty awesome openers—but 8½’s the best of all.

• Pam Grier, Federico Fellini, and fried pigeon—all in one story

• Restored silent Hitchcock coming our way

• The incredible true adventures of Budd Schulberg and Leni Riefenstahl

• Cannes 2013 poster revealed

• Tilda Swinton always did have a Ziggy Stardust quality . . .

• Mike Leigh has a wide new canvas.

• Bogdanovich on underestimating Lubitsch

• Thumbs, not guns

• Falling in love with Scorsese all over again

• The indescribable joys of slow motion

• Drifting with Dreyer’s Vampyr

• A different kind of reading adventure

• Carney knowledge from Mark Rappaport