Here it is! The official thread for all things Hitchcock!
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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)?
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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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_hitchcock)
Hitchcock @ IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033/)
Hitchcock.Tv (http://hitchcock.tv/)
Alfred Hitchcock @ Mysterynet (http://www.mysterynet.com/hitchcock/)
Hitchcock Online (http://www.hitchcock.nl/)
Hitchcock Specific Wiki (http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/hitchcock/wiki/Main_Page)
Alfred Hitchcock Store @ Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=549368&/sr=53-1/qid=1187063098/ref=tr_64891/002-9289372-5274400)
Essays and Analysis:
"Images" Collection of Hitchcock Essays (http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue09/infocus.htm)
Personality, Pathology, and The Act of Creation:
The Case of Alfred Hitchcock (http://www.peele.net/lib/hitch.html)
Criterion Collection Essays
The Lady Vanishes (http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=3&eid=31§ion=essay)
The 39 Steps (http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=56&eid=82§ion=essay)
Rebecca (http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=135&eid=186§ion=essay)
Spellbound (First Essay) (http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=136&eid=242§ion=essay)
Spellbound (Second Essay) (http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=136&eid=243§ion=essay)
Notorious (http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=137&eid=152§ion=essay)
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cool. so many classics. The Birds might be my fave
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.
who is this?
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.
North By Northwest is my favorite film of his.
Quote from: bright lights, big city on Jun 21, 2008, 03:20 AM
and i learned he did the original mr and mrs smith. didnt know that.
i actually didn't know that either. pretty cool.
for those who haven't seen these yet:
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so great.
Quote from: Azwethinkweiz on Jun 20, 2008, 12:55 PM
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.
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so great.
agreed.
Great thread!
Quote from: Azwethinkweiz on Jun 21, 2008, 11:43 AM
Quote from: bright lights, big city on Jun 21, 2008, 03:20 AM
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.
Quote from: Variable on Jun 22, 2008, 04:46 AM
Quote from: Azwethinkweiz on Jun 21, 2008, 11:43 AM
Quote from: bright lights, big city on Jun 21, 2008, 03:20 AM
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.
and I was commenting that it was dumb of you not to know seeing as how you posted that information already.
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.
here's a great little homaage to Hitchcock, made by Martin Scorsese:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=P5nAxzH4OPs
love it!
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.
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.
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.
I've seen Vertigo, Birds, Psycho and prolly others, can't remember for sure, but great movies all of em.
Quote from: Variable on Jun 22, 2008, 09:14 PM
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.
Quote from: defskull on Jun 22, 2008, 10:35 PM
Quote from: Variable on Jun 22, 2008, 09:14 PM
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
Quote from: defskull on Jun 22, 2008, 10:35 PM
Quote from: Variable on Jun 22, 2008, 09:14 PM
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.
Quote from: Azwethinkweiz on Jun 22, 2008, 09:35 PM
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.
yeah except that you specifically said that YOU made the list.
and you're a snob because you troll around this forum trying to act like you are a subject matter expert on any kind of cinema. Well you're a movie snob anyways. Or a wana be movie snob I should say. I guess for some reason you think that its cool to make people think you spend your entire life in front of a TV screen. But yeah, that is all. I was going to drop it but you brought it up again.
i troll around? no, i post like any other member. and yes, cinema is a great passion of mine and has nothing to do with just "spending your life in front of a tv screen". once again, you presume things.
and nah, i'm not an expert on "any kind of cinema", but i do know a lot about the subject, hence it's an interest of mine. there's a reason to why i'm taking Film Studies.
you probably have interests too, right? like fighting in a meaningelss war? good for you...but not really.
so Trey, got any Hitckcock favorites?
Cinema is a great passion of mine too, yet I don't feel like I come off like a douche who is better than others when I talk about it. Maybe it's me.
how the fuck did i come off as a douche? i made an informative thread about a great director, so people could discuss his works...not to "show off" my knowledge in movies. that's fucking stupid if you think that.
Quote from: Azwethinkweiz on Jun 24, 2008, 07:12 AM
how the fuck did i come off as a douche? i made an informative thread about a great director, so people could discuss his works...not to "show off" my knowledge in movies. that's fucking stupid if you think that.
probabbly youre a douche for thinking that defskull meant you with that ;)
Quote from: defskull on Jun 23, 2008, 10:38 PM
Cinema is a great passion of mine too, yet I don't feel like I come off like a douche who is better than others when I talk about it. Maybe it's me.
lol. Yeah pretty much YOU dont come off like a douche to me either