Posted: Wed., Feb. 25, 2004, 10:00pm PT

'Twisted' thesp ankles bash

Hitchcock, Welles, Melville haunt pic's Kaufman

By Anthony D'Alessandro

'Twisted' thesp Ashley Judd at the pic's preem.

Sherry Lansing and Samuel L. Jackson at the 'Twisted' bow.

Producer Peter Kaufman with his father, helmer Philip Kaufman, at the 'Twisted' premiere.

"Twisted" star Ashley Judd hobbled away from Monday night's after-party not for a wrenched ankle but rather a torn ligament.

Helmer Philip Kaufman likened the absent star to noir fave Barbara Stanwyck, waxing enthusiastic about the genre at Par's bash on the lot.

"Often when I think about what movie I want to see again at night, it turns out to be something in the vein of Hitchcock, Welles, or even Melville," Kaufman said. Also on hand: pic's Andy Garcia and Samuel L. Jackson; Par's Sherry Lansing, Jonathan Dolgen, Donald DeLine; producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Arnold and Anne Kopelson; plus guests including Joe Mantegna.