Alfred Hitchcock Discussion Thread

[theis]

Here it is! The official thread for all things Hitchcock!



Over 50 films in 81 years, more than 50 in the movie business.

Filmography:

1922 Number 13
1925 The Pleasure Garden
1926 The Mountain Eagle
1926 The Lodger/The Case of Jonathan Drew
1927 Downhill
1927 Easy Virtue
1927 The Ring
1928 The Farmer's Wife
1928 Champagne
1929 The Manxman
1929 Blackmail
1930 Elstree Calling
1930 Juno and the Paycock
1930 Murder!
1931 The Skin Game
1932 Rich and Strange/East of Shanghai
1932 Number Seventeen
1932 Lord Camber's Ladies
1934 Waltzes From Vienna
1934 The Man Who Knew Too Much
1935 The 39 Steps
1936 Secret Agent
1936 Sabotage/A Woman Alone
1937 Young and Innocent
1938 The Lady Vanishes
1939 Jamaica Inn
1940 Rebecca (first US film)
1940 Foreign Correspondent
1941 Mr. and Mrs. Smith
1941 Suspicion
1942 Saboteur
1943 Shadow of a Doubt
1944 Lifeboat
1945 Spellbound
1946 Notorious
1948 The Paradine Case
1948 Rope
1949 Under Capricorn
1950 Stage Fright
1951 Strangers on a Train
1953 I Confess
1954 Dial M for Murder
1954 Rear Window
1955 To Catch a Thief
1955 The Trouble With Harry
1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956 The Wrong Man
1958 Vertigo
1959 North by Northwest
1960 Psycho
1963 The Birds
1964 Marnie
1966 Torn Curtain
1969 Topaz
1972 Frenzy
1976 Family Plot

Which do you feel was Hitchcock's best film(s)?



Trivia:
He never won a best director Oscar in competition, although he was awarded the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award at the 1967 Oscars.

He hated to shoot on location. He preferred to shoot at the studio where he could have full control of lighting and other factors. This is why even his later films contain special effects composite and rear screen shots.

Praised Luis Buñuel as the best director ever

Often said that Shadow of a Doubt (1943) was his favourite film that he had directed.

Müde Tod, Der (1921) by Fritz Lang was his declared favourite movie.


Useful Links:
Alfred Hitchcock Wiki
Hitchcock @ IMDB
Hitchcock.Tv
Alfred Hitchcock @ Mysterynet
Hitchcock Online
Hitchcock Specific Wiki
Alfred Hitchcock Store @ Amazon


Essays and Analysis:
"Images" Collection of Hitchcock Essays
Personality, Pathology, and The Act of Creation:
The Case of Alfred Hitchcock

Criterion Collection Essays
The Lady Vanishes
The 39 Steps
Rebecca
Spellbound (First Essay)
Spellbound (Second Essay)
Notorious

[bright lights, big city]

cool. so many classics. The Birds might be my fave

[theis]

Haha, I knew you'd be the first one to answer this thread.

As cliché as it may sound, Psycho is my favorite...with Vertigo as a close runner-up.

It's amazing how many fantastic movies he's made. Probably the best director ever.

Rear Window...also amazing...such a mesmerizing movie. Other favorites include Strangers On a Train, Dial M for Murder, North by Northwest...I could just go on.

The man was a genius.

[Variable]

who is this?

[bright lights, big city]

cant forget north by northwest either.

i was just checkin out his IMDB, and yeah there really are so many classics done by him.
and i learned he did the original mr and mrs smith. didnt know that.

[Inkblades]

North By Northwest is my favorite film of his.

[theis]

and i learned he did the original mr and mrs smith. didnt know that.

i actually didn't know that either. pretty cool.

[theis]

for those who haven't seen these yet:

























so great.

[deftonekid]

As cliché as it may sound, Psycho is my favorite...with Vertigo as a close runner-up.

Same here. I like The Rope a lot too.

so great.

agreed.

Great thread!

[Variable]

and i learned he did the original mr and mrs smith. didnt know that.

i actually didn't know that either. pretty cool.

well it says it right there in that long ass list you posted, dummy.

[theis]

and i learned he did the original mr and mrs smith. didnt know that.

i actually didn't know that either. pretty cool.

well it says it right there in that long ass list you posted, dummy.

i know, cockface. i was just commenting on the fact that this was also news to me.

[Variable]

and I was commenting that it was dumb of you not to know seeing as how you posted that information already.

[theis]

wow, i really need to spell it out for you, don't i?

when i decided to make this thread, did i know about the mr and mrs smith thing? no, i didn't.

did i find out when i made the list? yes, i did.

did i comment on big city's post, saying i didn't know either? yes, i did.

now, was that so hard to understand? good, didn't think so.

now stay on topic and stop ruining another thread.

[theis]

here's a great little homaage to Hitchcock, made by Martin Scorsese:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=P5nAxzH4OPs

love it!

[Variable]

oh you didn't make that list.  You copied and pasted it and never read it.  Then you made your Avatar and Sig all super hitchcock and tried to act all like cool movie snob guy being an expert on the legend director.  Just admit that you didn't know before someone else brought it up.

But ok, Ill try to stay on topic from now on.

[theis]

so i'm a snob for making an indepth thread about one of my favorite directors? at least i put useful information in my threads, unlike many other on this board.
and of course i copypasted his filmography. no way i would remember all his movies by head.

and i'm not an expert on Hitch...just a major fan of his work and i find him fascinating. stop presuming.

[Nailec]

 as far as i know ive only seen the birds one or two times. the thing is. i felt a bit of uncomfortable but i was just too old when i watched this and so i was used to scary and phantastic stories. its the same when i read dracula. i was able to see how this book may have scared the shit out of its first readers because it was so latent sinister and dark and evil stuff.


i would like to see the people here not just tell me that he is a great producer and so forth. plz tell us why he is one.

[cyppe101]

I've seen Vertigo, Birds, Psycho and prolly others, can't remember for sure, but great movies all of em.

[defskull]

oh you didn't make that list.  You copied and pasted it and never read it.  Then you made your Avatar and Sig all super hitchcock and tried to act all like cool movie snob guy being an expert on the legend director.  Just admit that you didn't know before someone else brought it up.

But ok, Ill try to stay on topic from now on.

Haha my thoughts exactly.

[samson simpson]

oh you didn't make that list.  You copied and pasted it and never read it.  Then you made your Avatar and Sig all super hitchcock and tried to act all like cool movie snob guy being an expert on the legend director.  Just admit that you didn't know before someone else brought it up.

But ok, Ill try to stay on topic from now on.

Haha my thoughts exactly.

lolz