Alfred Hitchcock

To appreciate a film, a viewer needs to see a high-quality print. In the case of many vintage films, copyright laws of the latter half of the Twentieth Century allowed for many titles to move into the public domain. With the onset of home video, a solid industry developed among certain companies that bought up 35mm and 16mm prints of public domain movies, films that could be exploited commercially without needing permission from any copyright holder.

A. J. Finn has written for numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and the Times Literary Supplement. Finn’s debut…

In recent years, there’s been an explosion of new documentaries highlighting a host of subjects. This year, quite a few have been biographical in nature.…