THIS WEEKEND -- Hitchcock Double Bill at the New Beverly

This weekend, the New Beverly Cinema is hosting a double feature of two of Alfred Hitchcock's best middle-period movies, Notorious and Rebecca, both tales of perverse love affairs.

In Notorious, Cary Grant all but forces Ingrid Bergman into the arms of another man so that she can spy on his operations while Grant, an apparent cuckold fetishist, seethes with jealousy (somewhat improbably, John Woo later paid homage to Hitchcock by using this same conceit in his not-so-beloved, less-than-classic film Mission: Impossible II). By contrast Rebecca is an adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's excellent novel about a young woman who marries the perfect man (Laurence Olivier) -- except for the part where he's still obsessed with the memory of his dead first wife, the titular Rebecca, who seems to be haunting our unnamed heroine from beyond the grave. (But at least he's rich.) Both are classic Hitchcock, though for my money Rebecca is the one not to miss.

If you go tonight, you can even hang around for a midnight screening of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, which is also about relationships and betrayal and lies and double-agents, but without any on-screen double-X chromosomes to speak of.

WHERE: The New Beverly Cinema
WHEN: Friday and Saturday, August 15 & 16, at 7:30pm and 3:30pm (Saturday only)
PRICE: $7 gets you into both flicks.
MORE INFO: www.newbevcinema.com