Whats Your Favourite Hitchcock Movie?
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For me its between Rear Window and North By Northwest. i think Rear window just about comes out infront making North By Northwest a close second
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oh dear......
Psycho
The Birds
All dated now but were great when I first saw them.
Very honourable mention to North By Northwest. ⬆⬉
No point asking. Mr Teacake said the same thing in a previous Hitchcock thread and couldn't/wouldn't back it up with his reasons.
I think it's fair to say no Hitchcock film can be called pretentious, in fact they're almost all very straightforward and "normal".
Maybe Mr Teacake just struggle to understand one and gave up.
Marnia was a bit strange.
The Lion, The Hitchcock and The Wardrobe?
Spellbound was a bit of an oddity as well, what with its Salvador Dali dream sequence and psychoanalysis trappings.
Pretentious? Often the dullards way of describing ambitious.
LOL, I meant Marnie.
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North By Northwest
Psycho
Rebecca
Shadow of a Doubt
Young and Innocent
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Rear Window
The Wrong Man
Vertigo
Strangers on a Train
Ya know i just rewatched this one the other night. I do like it (it has Grace Kelly and Ray Milland afterall!!) but i dunno something seems to be lacking a bit in this one, i think its that theres a lot of drawn out scenes of dialogue with no real action. Don't get me wrong i still enjoy it a lot, but its not my fave hitch movie.
Harry is found dead and the finder thinks he's killed him. A farce ensues of various people who also think they've killed Harry trying to bury the body/unbury the body/move the body/hide the body whilst trying not to get caught by the police or own up to killing Harry.
I have been catching bits of To Catch a Thief on FilmFour in recent weeks (yeah I'll sit down properly some day!) and apart the print looking splendid the dialogue is wonderful, its a slick but only moderate entry in the Hitch cannon and yet compared to anything vaguely comparable these days it feels like it was scripted and directed by a geniuses.
Anyway I digress - I'll go for Rear Window, followed closely by North by Northwest, Psycho,
Strangers on a Train and Shadow of a Doubt which is very good but its so long since I've seen it it may not be as good as I think!
I also liked Shadow of a Doubt, The 39 Steps and Strangers on a Train.
the most entertaining and least gimmicky hitchcock.
Yep, saw this on DVD a while ago and enjoyed it a lot. Fairly inconsequential when compared to the rest of his canon, but a funny film with good dialogue and gorgeous photography of autumnal Vermont.