I watched The Birds when I was very young and thought it sucked; as a result I was put off from his work for a long time and have just recently started catching up on all the classic, wonderful films he's made that I've been missing out on. Combing through this back catalog is going to be a real treat.
Hitchcock was a master of the human psyche as much as he was a master of the art of cinema! That's why his films are classics!
Um, MUBI, you've got a misquote up above. It's from Truffaut's interviews with Hitchcock, and Hitchcock is talking about his own films. "Some movies are a slice of life. Mine are a slice of cake."
The greatest filmmaker who ever lived, and I doubt he will ever be surpassed. My love for classics began when I first saw "Psycho", which remains one of my favorite films.
Yes! Totally. My first trip was when I saw To Catch a Thief whilst a young gamin. That film changed me. And then Vertigo and then Rear Window and then the Birds and then those 52 oeuvres of cinema excellence. Few have tackled art and mainstream so well and so successfully. Few had fanboys such as Godard and Truffaut. Few had in life the critical respect and the box-office hits that he did. Still my man. My main man!
When did I start loving classic movies? When I saw Rear Window as a child, snowed in on a ski holiday. Thank you, Hitch.
Oh yeah. Rear Window (my all-time Hitch flick) and snow (my all-time favourite thing made out of water) together in a single sentence? Yes! Loved that film since shot number one. Those opening credits, THE slo-mo kiss. kelly and stewart. stewart and kelly. miss lonely heart. the dancer. the doggie. the mean neighbors. the peeping tomness of it all. so great. so great.
Dios me perdone por sólo haber visto como una tercera parte de sus películas, pero qué titán del cine que era Hitchcock.
We must soon add the newly discover footage of "The White Shadow", (1923), considered as the first film where Hitchcock has credits on: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-hitchcock-film-20110803,0,4619800.story
people, "sabotage" (1936) is already here, albeit under the name "the woman alone". for some reason...
Love this dude. There's two categories of good cinema. (1) Classic form, composition and execution (2) Boundary shattering innovation. No one has combined the two like Hitchcock.
Favorite Hitchcock: SHADOW OF A DOUBT! I just watched REAR WINDOW on a big screen (for the first time) and realized how much of the immersive quality is missing on a smaller screen. You really need to feel conspirator with "Jeff" and become part of the narrative.
