EIGHT Alfred Hitchcock movies, many of them classics and six of them showing in new prints, are back on the big a where they belong, featured in an attractive season which opens at the IFC in Dublin today with the director's riveting Daphne Du Maurier adaptation, Rebecca. It will be followed on Wednesday by Notorious and from Friday next by the superb North B Northwest. The season, which continues into September, also promises Spellbound, Psycho, I Confess (which inspired Robert Lepage's recent Le Confessional), and the two films not showing in new prints, Rear Window and Vertigo.

The 4th Dublin Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, which closed at the IFC last night, has been the most successful to date, with attendances up by 25 per cent on last year's figures. This year's hottest tickets were Beautiful Thing, which opened the festival, Lie Down With Dogs, Boyfriends and last night's closing film, Flirting With Disaster. The event, imaginatively programmed by Glenn Hogarty, has come a very long way since it was just a short touring programme of movies from the London lesbian and gay festival.