Comments on: Happy Birthday Hitch! 4 Alfred Hitchcock Secrets

By: Miguel Peces de Acuario

Miguel Peces de Acuario — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:53:51 +0000

Very funny and interesting to know these original secrets (and myths) about the great film director. Does anybody know any detailed secret about the film “The Trial”? I love this film…

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:14:33 +0000

It would be easy to say that every Hitchcock film is my favorite but, like every director, even Hitch had his clunkers (The Paradine Case, Juno and the Paycock, I, Confess, Family Plot are my personal dislikes). I’m particularly partial to The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Foreign Correspondent, Lifeboat, Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window and Rope.

By: nt4thbook

nt4thbook — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:23:05 +0000

What about “Fear O’ God” for an eternal hope of finding the lost. A very cryptic tribute to Hitchcock and his craft.

By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:11:06 +0000

Hitch’s first Hollywood film is my absolute favorite of all time and no one here has mentioned it.
Check out “Rebecca,” please.
The entire time filming it, Hitch and producer David O. Selznick argued about every little thing. The biggest argument was the ending, which Hitch did his way while Selznick was working on “Gone with the Wind.”
Also, it’s the only of Hitch’s films to win the coveted Best Picture Oscar.

By: marvin nubwaxer

marvin nubwaxer — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:34:00 +0000

stephen chow writes, directs and stars in his movies, and has made quite a few. i’m mentioning him because i believe he is a true genius at what he does and the sooner people discover him in the west the sooner they will realize they’ve been missing some real treats.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:31:26 +0000

Hitch! Hitch! Hooray!

By: Nicky

Nicky — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:45:01 +0000

Please, please, PLEASE post a pic of whatever Hitch tat you get!

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:25:42 +0000

Hitchcock is so, so great. My favorite constantly rotates but it comes down to: Psycho, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Vertigo, Notorious and The Birds.

Some Dial M For Murder trivia: I’m not sure if the entire film is shot in 3D, but the scene where Grace Kelly’s character is attacked IS shot in 3D. She reaches for help and the intent was to use 3D so that she was literally reaching into the audience for help, thereby making the audience complicit in fate.

One of my favorite parts of Psycho is the ending, when Norman is in the holding cell and “Norma” gives the monologue and she says the part about how she’s not even going to swat that fly, and then Norman looks up and gives the CREEPIEST look into the camera, and then they superimpose one frame of Norma’s “face” over Norman’s. (I’m guessing everyone has seen it and knows what I mean but I would hate to ruin it for someone.) Oh man, what a great movie.

Re the relatively slow pace: These films are all 30+ years old, too. As much as I would like to think that my attention span is impervious to MTV, computers and all the other usual suspects, it’s definitely not. Plus, suspense by Hitchcock standards is not suspense by today’s standards. The suspense lies in the excruciating wait for the other shoe to drop rather than a cliffhanger ending or a bunch of plot twist endings or whatever.

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:11:21 +0000

I took film history in college and one semester was dedicated to the study of all things Hitchcock. I knew a little about his films, but after that class, I became a huge fan. My favorite is probably Rear Window. Everything in his movies add some little detail to the film. He was and remains a great filmmaker.

By: bre

bre — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:52:52 +0000

I’m a video editor, and in my edit suite I have a large poster of Hitchcock from the Apple “Think Different” campaign of the late 90′s. I was at MacWorld in 1998, and they were giving the posters away on the show floor. They went fast, and were always gone fairly soon after the show opened each day. I only got two…Hitchcock and Amelia Earhart. But I was so glad I snagged Hitchcock. It’s a great shot of him peeking out from behind a stone wall. I had someone offer me $100 for the poster recently, but I won’t part with it.

BTW…@ PartiallyDeflected…if film ran out and a new roll was loaded, an edit had to happen.