The Alfred Hitchcock appreciation thread - Page 2

The Trouble With Harry is tragically underrated.

Family Plot is a lot of fun -funny and breezy.

I've found I've enjoyed some of his movies more now than I did when I first saw them years ago, like Suspicion and Shadow of a Doubt.

I've been watching some syndicated Alfred Hitchcock Presents lately, and there are definitely some stinkers. But the opening and closing bits with Hitchcock are always golden.

One of my favorite aspect of Rear Window is something that generally goes overlooked: all of the neighbors Stewart is spying on have stories with beginnings, middles and ends — all told without dialog.


I always thought there was a lot of dark humor to Frenzy's opening scene. It was Hitchcock's first English film in a long time, and he "announced" his return by beginning the film with a scene of a nude woman's body floating in the Thames.

By the way, here's the great site where I got my avatar from:
http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/hitchco...s_of_Hitchcock

Hitchcock is a director I've always wanted to watch but I've never taken the time. Up until today the only Hitchcock film I'd seen was Vertigo. Bought a 14 film boxset off Amazon and I'm currently working my way through. 

 

Just watched Saboteur. 

 

I was shocked not only by how taut this film was but how amazingly paced and structured it is. It never seems to lose momentum during it's runtime. There are tons of great moments, love the opening and how bluntly it shows the sabotage, but my favourite has to be when the heroes are trying to escape and find themselves at the mercy of a bunch of circus performers. It's essentially a massive diversion from the rest of the film, but it plays as a perfect pitstop. It's funny, and weird, and sly and whilst it feels like it's fat that could be shed it does a lot to inspire our hero and make the third act believable. The film essentially plays out as the hero becoming dissatisfied with America and being reminded of why it's worth fighting for by a variety of encounters. It makes his actions towards the end have a lot more power. Love the sequence during the party where Hitchcock essentially creates a prison of people. There's no walls holding the heroes, but they're surrounded by the enemy and know they can be struck down if the do anything. It's just a great piece of clever tension building.