Just before the curtain goes up on The Sunset Limited, Cormac McCarthy’s “Novel in Dramatic Form,” a man attempts to kill himself by leaping in front of a train. He’s saved by a stranger, and the pair ...

Alfred Hitchcock has been lionized in the history of film and especially in the genre of psychological thrillers. How often is a book or movie extolled as Hitchcockian? Yet the Academy of Motion ...