Stagefright has some great Dietrich stuff, Such as when she is first fit in her widow's weeds and she says "don't you think you could make it ... plunge a little?"
― James & Bobby Quantify (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 June 2011 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
This has reminded me I've always wanted to see Le confessionnal, is it worth it?
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:17 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark
I liked it.
The first time I saw Marnie was when the podcast I co-host did a Mother's Day show wherein we got each of our moms to pick one of their favourite films, which we would then discuss. Marnie was my mom's choice. I was shocked at how strange and upsetting it was! (the other two picks: Badlands and Iris.)
― You Post on ILX (Simon H.), Friday, 17 June 2011 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
A mom who'd pick Badlands is pretty unusual, to say the least.
― clemenza, Friday, 17 June 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
total hipster family.
― You Post on ILX (Simon H.), Friday, 17 June 2011 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
Shakey should have been on that show
― James & Bobby Quantify (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 June 2011 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
The Wrong Man tonight, which I've never seen.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 October 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
The Wrong Guyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyXoM-62lX0
― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 7 October 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
Dial M For Murder coming to Blu Ray *IN 3-D*!
http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/56709/hitchcocks-dial-m-murder-coming-blu-ray-3d-house-wax-next
― piscesx, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
Finally diving into this cheapo box set of British Hitchcock features... loved The Lady Vanishes.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
rewatched Rope last week, i won't say it's underrated but i do think it's misunderstood, often.
― movember spawned a nobster (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
I liked The Lady Vanishes a lot when I saw it three or four years ago for the first time. Struck me as superior to a few of his more acclaimed American films.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
i think there was a cliche about his 30s Brit flicks being his best work but i think it's a reasonable case to make
― movember spawned a nobster (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
Rope = dope.
― sug night (sic), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't know about the 15-movie Blu Ray set!
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91tuY8UKEnL._AA1500_.jpg
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 31 January 2013 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
a vote for the lodger! saw it today, pretty funny. killer had an oedipus map, then it turns out he's misunderstood and crucified on a fence. shots of murdered women, only their faces.... amazing to watch silent film do all of this. the father (arthur chesney) is amazing.
― MAAVENN (Matt P), Monday, 12 August 2013 04:36 (ten years ago) link
The Trouble With Harry is so good. Edmund Gwenn is so beautiful he makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time.
― xelab, Sunday, 8 June 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
I saw it a few years back and it just didn't work for me. The sweet, idyllic setting and the dark comedy were such a jarring match that I don't think that the film ever found a proper tone. I dunno. One to revisit when I have the time, perhaps.
Showed Rear Window to a class last week, which was a lot of fun. I heard a bit of condescending laughter during the early parts of the film (at Wendell Corey's misogyny, for the most part) but a good number of the students had gotten pretty jumpy by the time Burr showed up to Stewart's apartment.
― Funk autocorrect (cryptosicko), Sunday, 8 June 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
I just watched The Lady Vanishes and despite its many silly aspects, it somehow adds up to an entertaining movie. It's a script that is neither fish nor fowl, trying at once to be a political drama, slapstick comedy, romcom and thriller. How Hitchcock managed to make that heap of ill-assorted oddments into a watchable movie is a small miracle.
― Aimless, Monday, 9 June 2014 05:10 (nine years ago) link
political drama? that's just Macguffin hooey.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 June 2014 11:32 (nine years ago) link
most of Hitch's pre-WWII movies basically take place in Ruritania
― arid banter (Noodle Vague), Monday, 9 June 2014 12:17 (nine years ago) link
quite a few of the post-WWII come to think of it
― arid banter (Noodle Vague), Monday, 9 June 2014 12:18 (nine years ago) link
I'm not a huge Vertigo fan either. I admire it, in a detached way, but would much rather watch at least four or five others from the list above--not to mention Citizen Kane, which Vertigo may finally overtake in 2012's Sight and Sound poll.― clemenza, Friday, July 16, 2010 9:19 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark
― clemenza, Friday, July 16, 2010 9:19 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark
This may have been discussed in some other thread. But yeah, this did happen!
― billstevejim, Monday, 9 June 2014 14:05 (nine years ago) link
"Admire it in a detached way" is totally how I've always felt about Vertigo too, despite watching it once every 10 or so years since first seeing it as a Hitchcock-loving teen just to check and see if I've grown into it yet. Kane is way better, as are a ridiculous number of other Hitchcock films.
― Funk autocorrect (cryptosicko), Monday, 9 June 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
Okay, who was the joker who voted for The Mountain Eagle?
― Miss Anne Thrope (j.lu), Monday, 9 June 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
when did you guys have your hearts detached?
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 June 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
I only saw Citizen Kane and Vertigo for the first time within the past 6 weeks. I prefer Vertigo by a decent margin, enough that it whet my need for 5 or 6 more Hitchcock movies. Besides Vertigo, I probably enjoyed Frenzy and North By Northwest the most. I may give Notorious another shot, but I found it kinda boring.
― billstevejim, Monday, 9 June 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
xps
The old lady as a spy was Macguffin hooey, but portraying the philandering barrister as a coward who is killed by the nefarious central Europeans, even as he waves his white flag of surrender, was trying to put across a serious political message. And the character of the 'enemy' neurologist who is a smooth, calm, reassuring, sophisticated intellectual, a two-faced liar, and cold-blooded murderer, was also designedly nuanced propaganda.
― Aimless, Monday, 9 June 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
why did i wait 3 decades plus to see Notorious?? amazing bit of work; such an insane balance of different moods, sorta feels like 3 different films are going on at once. incredible camera work. the Mum might give me nightmares.
― piscesx, Saturday, 24 January 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
Watched Rear Window with the kids, and it was neat to see a thriller operate the way it was designed to operate, as a nail-biter for a more innocent, less cynical audience, one that hides their eyes during the suspense scenes. Started NXNW with them, too, but I think it was just a little too fast and manic. They kept asking what was going on, and I was split between explaining it and telling them that none of it really matters.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 January 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link
It won't mean anything to anyone who hasn't seen the film, but one of my fave Criterion covers:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/release_boxshots/773-36fcbdf38c655b58c01d3f19ac34b16d/137_box_348x490_original.jpg
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Saturday, 24 January 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link
no better thriller scene than that one imo. few bigger oh shits than when you see she sees they see she sees.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 24 January 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link
No room, Sebastian.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 January 2015 18:28 (nine years ago) link
also: Sebastian, the Hitch fink most deserving of pity?
and a nazi no less!
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 24 January 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
the way he often remarks on Devlin's looks makes me wonder if HE's got the hots for Dev and is worried Alicia will catch on.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 January 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
IMO, subject to change at a moment's notice:
best of the best of the bestNotoriousPsychoRear WindowShadow of a Doubt
next best of the bestNorth by NorthwestRopeVertigo
by anyone else, a masterpieceThe 39 StepsBlackmailDial "M" for MurderFamily PlotThe Lady VanishesThe Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)SabotageSuspicion
flawed but greatThe BirdsFrenzyI ConfessLifeboatThe LodgerRebeccaThe RingStage FrightStrangers on a TrainThe Trouble with HarryTo Catch a ThiefThe Wrong ManYoung and Innocent
goodForeign CorrespondentThe Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)Marnie (sorry, auteurists!)Mr. & Mrs. SmithMurder!Rich and StrangeSecret AgentSpellboardUnder Capricorn
hmmm...Jamaica InnThe ManxmanSaboteurTorn Curtain
not goodTopaz (oof)
haven't seen… all the others
― I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:38 (nine years ago) link
Rear Window really is the best of the best of the best. On that, everyone can agree.
― Eric H., Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:43 (nine years ago) link
Family Plot is a better film than Frenzy?
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:46 (nine years ago) link
I have a creeping affection for the creepy Under Capricorn.
And I am about to rewatch The Secret Agent with Gielgud and Lorre. Ta!
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:50 (nine years ago) link
now rank his directed TV episodes. "Lamb to the Slaughter" and "The Crystal Trench" come to mind.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link
those are good
i can't quite figure out why "breakdown" seems the hip hitchcock TV episode to cite these days. it's effectively disturbing but kind of crude.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 26 January 2015 00:05 (nine years ago) link
speaking of crude, "bang! you're dead" is a fun one
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 26 January 2015 00:06 (nine years ago) link
"Lamb to the Slaughter" I read in high school sophomore English.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 January 2015 00:07 (nine years ago) link
I forgot how garrulous and moldy Dial M For Murder is. It would have taken a stronger actor than Ray Milland and his terrible accent to redeem this stagebound material. Talk, talk, talk.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:59 (nine years ago) link
http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Talk_Talk
― EPMD Conference 2015 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
spatially it's quite nice
(dont think ive ever watched in 2D)
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 23:04 (nine years ago) link
yes the negotiations of space among Milland, the police inspector and Cummings in that apartment is shrewd in its way.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 23:05 (nine years ago) link
also like the conceit that it's a sequel to Strangers on a Train
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 23:06 (nine years ago) link
I kept thinking what would Preminger have done with this material and remembered Bunny Lake is Missing.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 23:06 (nine years ago) link
Just rewatced Dial M for Murder for the first time since high school. Not a great Hitch, but maybe a pretty good episode of Columbo. Why this was his foray into 3D is puzzling, though, given how this may be one of his least visually dazzling films.
― Bitch I'm in the 2112 (cryptosicko), Thursday, 31 December 2015 05:09 (eight years ago) link