Alfred Hitchcock: Classic or Dud?

bloody hell John Laurie's in Juno too, will watch this week

Seeing Alfred Hitchcock and Juno mentioned together is giving me visions of Michael Cera getting impaled on a weather vane after battling w/J.K. Simmons.

while Thelma Ritter amiably helps Ellen Page abort her c hild.

Brody on how guilt/concealment issues make Marnie such a personal film:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2012/10/how-hitchocks-obsession-with-tippi-hedren-shaped-marnie.html

Oh my god, Hitchcock is soooooo lame.

i believe it. it looks like something I'd pay to not see

The Girl looked like a much more interesting movie and I didn't even bother to watch that, even though it was on the Television Set as well as On Demand for Free even right now.

Watching The Girl now.

Miller is a lot better than I expected, Jones is creepily on the money. Sorta feels like it's missing something thoug, but I can't quite place it.

I really never thought of Frenzy as underrated -- it's stone great, and so is Shadow of a Doubt -- and it doesn't appear to be given how often it's mentioned here.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/the-criticwire-survey-underrated-hitchcock

I like Under Capricorn, I Confess and The Paradine Case too.

Someone gave me this for my birthday last month:

http://0.tqn.com/d/horror/1/0/E/_/-/-/AlfredHitchcockPremiere.jpg

When I looked on Amazon, lots of reader complaints about defective discs...I was feeling guilty about the person overspending, now I'm starting to wonder.

Hopkins' make-up may actually make him look less like Hitchcock.

the girl was ok but the movie felt perfunctory and just kind of 'ended'. miller and tobey were very good though; he's a much better hitchcock than hopkins, if the trailers were anything to go by.

Hopkins' make-up may actually make him look less like Hitchcock.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, November 20, 2012 4:35 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he looks so fucked up

xpost yeah I felt like it was missing something..kinda was expecting a bit more. it looked very good, though the hitchcockian homages got a little old after a while.

I really wish those two (apparently) POS films wd be discussed elsewhere

well sorrreeeee

i wish i had a pony

Furio?

sorry i'd rather discuss the guy's films, just like on the Polanski thread that got trashed.

I think the word is "raped."

I think it got trashed first, and then raped.

http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/screen/reviews/181034041.html

I’d rather be watching Gus Van Sant’s Psycho remake.

Pretty much.

LOL, seriously.

jesus tell me that's fake

It's absolutely for real. The more I think about it, the more this seems like the worst movie ever. It's riotously shitty.

"He helps her into the car" = "He pretends she's a steak at Ernie's and smears horseradish on her."

so does this movie have a shot at the coveted My Week With Marilyn slot

It's absolutely for real. The more I think about it, the more this seems like the worst movie ever. It's riotously shitty.

― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Thursday, November 29, 2012 9:08 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i have no problem believing this

oh my god at that script picture

Helen Mirren could probably slip into Best Actress, especially since her character keeps saying "I am Alma Reville." Actor's too crowded for Hopkins to have more than an outside shot.

it reminds me of the fake michael bay's batman script

http://my.spill.com/profiles/blog/show?id=947994%3ABlogPost%3A355506

they don't call the Academy the Masters of Suspense for nothing!

It gives you a PECK on the cheek.

Did I mention a raven lands on Hitchcock's shoulder at the end of this movie?

there's so many lines in the trailer alone that make me cringe. like a reporter going "mr. hitchcock, you're the most famous director in the history of the medium... but you're 60 years old!"

Did I tell YOU there's a scene where Hitch sits down in a train and Robert Walker goes "Excuse me -- is this seat taken?"

Did I tell YOU there's a scene where Vera Miles is wearing a black bra? Or was it a white one?

Also, he loves him some imported, canned foie gras.

Does this at least approach Mommie Dearest levels of camp, or is it completely worthless?

It's not really campy at all. Just a run-of-the-mill hatchet job that highlights each and every one of the pitfalls of this pitfall-heavy genre.

this O'Hehir piece is kind of intriguing, as he finds Hitch's craft a "baleful influence in film history."

http://www.salon.com/2012/11/24/the_strange_case_of_alfred_hitchcock/

tbh there aren't many directors who do Hitch well so if he's to be judged by the baleful qualities of his hack imitators...

It’s clearly relevant to Hitchcock’s films that he was a neurotic mess (and quite likely a highly unpleasant and unhappy person) who had unresolved mommy issues and lusted fruitlessly after a parade of icy blondes. But those things don’t explain his seductive, paranoid, mistaken-identity dreamscapes any more than Scott Fitzgerald’s alcoholism and bigotry can explain “The Great Gatsby,” or Richard Wagner’s anti-Semitism can explain “The Ring of the Nibelungen.” Indeed, as Richard Brody of the New Yorker recently suggested in a post about Hedren and “Marnie” (a movie I pretty much can’t stand), the fact that Hitchcock was a defective personality may make his artistic achievement greater rather than lesser.

It and Gertrud form the great 1964 diptych of defective sexuality.

I like Marnie too, tho it falls a little short of Gertrud.

(add Dr Strangelove for a triptych)

True and true.

is Bruce Dern the last working actor who's been in 2 Hitchcock films? I guess Norman Lloyd is retired.

Hedren has 5 credits in the last 2 years and 3 in various stages of production.

ok, i wondered about that

btw, UK MWKTM on Criterion in January. Need to resee.

http://www.criterion.com/films/27999-the-man-who-knew-too-much

Me too. I need to rewatch a lot of the British ones. Don't have particularly fond memories of many aside from The Lady Vanishes.