- “Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”
Perhaps it's a cop-out, or maybe I should just delay this posting as I did Billy Wilder's entry, but after the miserable week I have had I am just going forward now. As you'll notice, this is not a completely written out entry as all of the others have been. I had every entry to done well in advance, except for Hitch's, assuming that I would write it this week while posting the first two runners-up. Then I got sick to start the week and am only now beginning to feel human again. Even so, I'm still nowhere near 100% and have an energy level that is zapped very quickly.
Fortunately, though, there was not a whole lot of drama as to who #1 would be once Scorsese and Wilder were off the board. I've waxed lyrical about my love for a number of different Hitchcock films (Rebecca, Rear Window, Psycho), so I'll direct folks there if they want some more in-depth analysis. What I will add is that I tried to play out scenarios where the obvious choice of Hitchcock at #1 wouldn't happen... and I just couldn't do it. He has too many films that I love, a filmography too deep to be matched. I still need to better familiarize myself with his earlier British period, which will likely just increase my love of the Master of Suspense.
Once again, I apologize to end the series like this, but I'm assuming most everyone will understand. The important thing is that I'm on the mend and that everyone can now post their favorite Hitch lists!
1. Rear Window (1954)
2. Psycho (1960)
3. Rebecca (1940)
4. Vertigo (1958)
5. Strangers on a Train (1951)
6. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
7. Dial M for Murder (1954)
8. I Confess (1953)
9. North by Northwest (1959)
10. Notorious (1946)
11. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
12. The Birds (1963)
13. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
14. Frenzy (1972)
15. Marnie (1964)
16. To Catch a Thief (1955)
17. Blackmail (1929)
18. The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935)
19. Suspicion (1941)
20. Spellbound (1945)
21. Rope (1948)
22. Saboteur (1942)
23. Lifeboat (1944)
24. The Wrong Man (1956)
25. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
26. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
27. Stage Fright (1950)
28. Torn Curtain (1966)
Dave, congratulations on the completion of your admirable project. Surely no director has given more pleasure to the movie lover than Hitch in his more than four decades of splendid work (and that's not even including the TV shows). What more can I say about Hitchcock except to offer my own list of favorites?
ReplyDelete1. North by Northwest (1959)--my favorite movie ever
2. Vertigo (1958)
3. Rear Window (1954)
4. Strangers on a Train (1951)
5. Psycho (1960)
6. Notorious (1946)
7. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
8. Rebecca (1940)
9. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
10. The 39 Steps (1935)
For me these are his greatest works, but the following are nearly as good, all of them tremendously entertaining films with many memorable moments: Young and Innocent, Suspicion, Shadow of a Doubt, To Catch a Thief, The Man Who Knew Too Much (the 1956 version, which I've come to prefer to the earlier version), The Wrong Man (his most underappreciated film), The Birds (one that took awhile to grow on me but that I now love), Frenzy. I also like several others but not as much as the ones I've named. It's interesting that his most fecund and consistent decade was the 1950s, from Strangers on a Train to Psycho, during which he produced my top 5 and almost half of my nearlies.
No donut for Lynch, eh?
ReplyDeleteTerrific choice. I think there are many more people who'd rank him where you have.
I've not seen many of his works, but what I've seen are all masterpieces:
Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, Lifeboat, Rope, North by Northwest and 39 Steps
I somehow missed commenting to your post on Billy Wilder, even though he happens to be one of my favourites too. Anyway, Hitchcock certainly isn't a surprising choice for the top post. He may not be the best director according to me, but there's no doubting the fact that I fall in the minority group insofar as my opinion goes.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, here's my Hitchcock top 5:
1. Psycho
2. Rear Window
3. Vertigo
4. Strangers on a Train
5. Birds
Interestingly, Psycho is the only Hitchcock movie that will consistently make my favourites list.
Anyway, my 30 favourite directors, in no particular order, are:
Satyajit Ray (Ind)
Mrinal Sen
Rituparno Ghosh
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Charlie Chaplin (US)
Martin Scorsese
Billy Wilder
Stanley Kubrick
Woody Allen
Coen Bros.
Quentin Tarantino
Francis Ford Coppola
Robert Siodmak
David Cronenberg (Can)
Jean-Luc Godard (Fra)
Francois Truffaut
Akira Kurosawa (Jap)
Wong Kar-Wai (HK)
Park Chan-Wook (S.Kor)
Kim Ki-Duk
Milos Forman (Czh)
Jiri Menzel
Sergio Leone (Ita)
Bernardo Bertolucci
Federico Fellini
Krzysztof Kieslowski (Pol)
Roman Polanski
Guillermo Del Toro (Mex)
Lars von Trier (Den)
Ingmar Bergman (Swe)
It was an impromptu list, so I might have missed out on some names. I'd also like to figure out the ranking for my list sometime.
It was a pleasure following this series as it has been following all your series. Hoping that you hit upon an idea for your next project asap ;)
First Dave I hope you feel better soon. It sounds like you have had a rough week. As I mentioned in the Wilder post Hitchcock is one of my top three. He and Wilder are the first directors I ever became aware of when I first started to take an interest in film as a young teenager.
ReplyDeleteIt was really tough putting these in some kind of order as I admire so many of his films. Even in his lesser works there is much to admire. I still need to tackle most of his silents.
Rear Window
Psycho
North by Northwest
Notorious
Suspicion
The 39 Steps
Strangers on a Train
Vertigo
Rebecca
Dial M for Murder
Shadow of a Doubt
Foreign Correspondent
The Lady Vanishes
Frenzy
Spellbound
The Birds
Marnie
Rope
Saboteur
Sabotage
To Catch a Thief
Lifeboat
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Wrong Man
The Man Who Knew too Much (1934)
The Lodger
The Trouble with Harry
Stage Fright
I Confess
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Stage Fright
Family Plot
Torn Curtain
Topaz
Good ol' Hitch. I dig so many of his films and was actually just rewatching REAR WINDOW again a few days. Such a great film. here are my faves:
ReplyDelete1. Rear Window
2. The Birds
3. Psycho
4. Vertigo
5. Strangers on a Train
6. Shadow of a Doubt
7. North by Northwest
8. The Man Who Knew Too Much
9. To Catch a Thief
10. Dial M for Murder
11. Spellbound
Dave: I would like to simultaneously congratulate you on the completion of this spectacular, epic journey examining (and celebrating) the geniuses who brought the cinema to its highest level of artistry, and to hope that you are feeling better today. I know you have had a difficult period this past week, making for a lamentable state of affairs with the conclusion of the countdown. By way of enthusiasm, passion and volume (and quality) of comments you may have staged your greatest triumph here, and I know just how many hours you have invested into the enterprise by way of tireless home viewing and writing.
ReplyDeleteYour #1 choice here is one that virtually no true cineaste could ever contest. Hitch's prolific output is unmatched by any major director dating back to the silent era, and his work for television made his contributions of the yeoman variety. He produced as many truly "great" films as anyone else, and was one of the most influential directors of all time. His body of work is perfect material for a film festival, and his career had at least three major peaking points, including that spurt of creativity in the UK in the 30's, where he launched his craft. Numerically listing his films (as John stated) is rather an arbitrary persuit, as one might feel different tomorrow, but it's at least a way to gage present regard:
1 Vertigo
2 Psycho
3 Rear Windown
4 Rebecca
5 The Lady Vanishes
6 Notorious
7 I Confess
8 Shadow of a Doubt
9 The 39 Steps
10 Strangers on a Train
11 Blackmail (1929)
12 North by Northwest
13 Spellbound
14 The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
15 The Birds
16 The Wrong Man
17 Frenzy
18 Lifeboat
19 Suspicion
20 Foreign Corresponent
21 Dial M For Murder
22 Rope
23 Secret Agent
24 The Lodger
25 The Manzman
26 The Ring
27 Topaz
28 Jamaica Inn
29 The Paradine Case
30 To Catch A Thief
31 Saboteur
32 Torn Curtain
33 The Trouble With Harry
34 Mr. and Mrs. Smith
35 Family Plot
36 Stage Fright
37 Under Capricorn
As far as listing my own "favorite" Top 30 directors here, that is a task far more difficult than listing Hitch's best film in any kind of order. It is subject to change weekly, if not daily. As it is I have a first-place tie:
1 Charles Chaplin and Ingmar Bergman
2 Robert Bresson
3 Yasujiro Ozu
4 Carl Theodor Dreyer
5 Kenji Mizoguchi
6 Jean Renoir
7 F. W. Murnau
9 John Ford
8 Powell and Pressburger
9 Buster Keaton
10 Luis Bunuel
11 Satijit Ray
12. K. Kieslowski
13 Ernst Lubitsch
14 Orson Welles
15 Abel Gance
16 Vittorio De Sica
17 Anthony Mann
18 Billy Wilder
19 Andrei Tarkovsky
20 Alfred Hitchcock
21 Frank Capra
22 Stanley Kubrick
23 Billy Wilder
24 Mikio Naruse
25 Carol Reed
26 Frantisek Vlacil
27 Federico Fellini
28 Preston Sturges
29 Val Lewton (counted as a director here!)
30 Howard Hawks
So, I have 31 choices here with teh first-place tie.
Another great list comes to an end. Hitchcock is a good choice for number one. A prolific career with many worthy films to his credit. My top ten.....
ReplyDelete1. Vertigo
2. Rear Window
3. Psycho
4. The Birds
5. The Wrong Man (so underrated)
6. Shadow Of A Doubt
7. Notorious
8. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
9. Strangers On A Train
10. Rebecca
Just to spice this post up a little..... I consider North By Northwest to be an awful movie. I never understood what people saw in that film. I took a Hitchcock course in college where we watched about 15-16 of his pictures through the semester. The unintentional laughter that N By N produced spoke volumes.
A list of 30 directors would be very hard to produce off the top of my head. I will refrain from trying. Good job Dave. Can't wait for your next project.....M.Roca
Actually, Ouseme Sembene, Fritz Lang, Jean-Pierre Melville, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jacques Rivette Rainer Fassbinder,Roberto Rossellini, and Rene Clair would make this list prominently as well, though I am not sure what place until I do it all over again. But not a single one of that group can be left off. Goes to show you how faulty a quickly-composed list can be.
ReplyDeleteI would pose some runners-up in no particular order:
John Huston
Luchino Visconti
Ken Loach
Bel Tarr
Akira Kurosawa
Jacques Rivette
Martin Scorsese
Wong Kar-Wei
Lars Von Trier
Francis Ford Coppola
Steven Spielberg
David Lean
Todd Haynes
David Lynch
D.W. Griffith
Francois Truffaut
Victor Sjostrom
Jean Vigo
Marcel Carne
Kon Ichikawa
Pier Paulo Pasolini
Kanedo Shindo
Jane Campion
Bruce Beresford
A. Wajda
Eric Rohmer
Jean-Luc Godard
Sergei Eisenstein
V. Podovkin
Jaques Feyder
William Wyler
Clair Denis
J. Menzel
Robert Siodmak
Jacques Tourneur
Elia Kazan
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ReplyDeleteI might as well add to my previous comment a list of those in my own directors' pantheon (at the present):
ReplyDeleteIngmar Bergman
Luis Buñuel
Charles Chaplin
Vittorio de Sica
Sergei Eisenstein
Federico Fellini
John Ford
Howard Hawks
Alfred Hitchcock
Buster Keaton
Akira Kurosawa
David Lean
Ernst Lubitsch
Terrence Malick
Jean-Pierre Melville
Kenji Mizoguchi
Max Ophüls
Yasujiro Ozu
Roman Polanski
Michael Powell
Satyajit Ray
Jean Renoir
Jacques Tati
François Truffaut
Orson Welles
I'd like to add that reading your posts on the subject has caused me to update my views on some directors and as a result this list has recently grown by four.
My ten favorite:
ReplyDeleteUnder Capricorn
Vertigo
Notorious
Shadow Of A Doubt
The Lady Vanishes
North By Northwest
The Birds
Rear Window
The Wrong Man
Sabotage
Under Capricorn is quite possibly the most underrated film ever (Sam's ranking is quite common). Shot by the greatest of all cinematographers and featuring Bergman's best performance, it's one of my favorite films, and completely incomparable to anything else.
Thirty favorites of mine:
Budd Boetticher
Robert Bresson
Charlie Chaplin
Brian De Palma
Claire Denis
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Carl Theodor Dreyer
John Ford
Jean-Luc Godard
Howard Hawks
Monte Hellman
Alfred Hitchcock
Elem Klimov
Charles Laughton
Ernst Lubitsch
Terrence Malick
Anthony Mann
Michael Mann
Jean-Pierre Melville
Kenji Mizoguchi
Sam Peckinpah
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
Nicholas Ray
Jean Renoir
Jacques Rivette
Preston Sturges
Andrei Tarkovsky
Jacques Tati
Jean Vigo
Josef von Sternberg
Dave,
ReplyDelete1. Vertigo (1958)
2. Strangers on a Train (1951)
3. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
4. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
5. The Trouble with Harry (1955)
6. The Birds (1963)
7. Psycho (1960)
8. North by Northwest (1959)
9. Rear Window (1954)
10. Notorious (1946)
11. The 39 Steps (1935)
12. Rebecca (1940)
13. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
14. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
15. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
16. Dial M for Murder (1954)
17. Young and Innocent (1937)
18. I Confess (1953)
19. Stage Fright (1950)
First, of course, comes concern for your health. Second, congratulations on completing this Herculean achievement. I first tested your waters when I came across the Woody Allen entry. I was impressed by the concept, by the presentation, by the succinct and knowledgeable introductions and by the quality of the comments. The civility surrounding disagreements was most agreeable. It was easy to be drawn in.
Hitchcock makes perfect sense. I started going to movies when his American films were first shown. We grew together comfortably for almost two decades, until the French came along in the 1960s and told many of us what we already knew. (I first saw Vertigo November 9th, 1959 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.)
Then with the advent of VCRs, DVDs, Cable (TCM) and Netflix I was able to learn about the English part of his career that I had missed. Hence the whole before us.
Quantity and quality, plus depth. One might delve into Vertigo and not resurface for some time. Truffaut said “There are always three or four films in a film of his.” I found putting my nineteen in order very difficult. That is a tribute to the filmmaker, not an indecisive nature on my part.
I am inclined in these postings to relate incidents in my personal life to films I have seen. But Hitchcock is a tough sell. Spies, foreign intriguers, murderers, and psychotics have, fortunately, been beyond my pale. So I will settle for a locale. Hitchcock spent formative and productive years in Angel, Islington in his English period. And I have had the good fortune to spend a few months every year in the past decade in those precincts. I suspect Hitchcock and I might have hoisted flagons in some of the same pubs. Alas, not at the same time.
Good work. Better health and, although I am usually averse to sequels, I must admit curiosity as to what may come next.
Gerald
My wife (Enola) interjects:
1. Rear Window
2. North by Northwest
3. Vertigo
4. The Lady Vanishes
5. The Birds
6. Psycho
I've really enjoyed reading all the postings in this countdown, although I haven't commented all that much because of lack of knowledge of many of the directors - I'll be referring back to your postings in the future as I hopefully fill in some of the gaps. My favourites by Hitchcock are probably 'Rebecca' and 'Notorious', romantic that I am, but there are many of his which I don't remember very well or haven't yet seen. Hope you feel better very soon, Dave, and many thanks for all your hard work in putting all this together.
ReplyDeleteWell, well, once again my lack of knowledge on the classic masters of cinema and their films shines, for I have only seen one Hitchcock (Rear Window). Anyways, congratulation for completing this impressive task and get well soon!
ReplyDeletePersonally, I find it almost impossible to rank my favourite directors. I do however have some sort of holy trinity of filmmakers whose work have inspired me like no others, they are, in no particular order, : John Carpenter, Sergio Leone and Tsui Hark (why is he not at least as well known as his former partner John Woo is a complete mystery to me). Akira Kurosawa and Martin Scorsese are not too far behind.
Dave, watch some more movies and feel better knowing how much we enjoy your countdowns and surveys. This one's been great. I think I take Hitchcock for granted a little. I admire a lot of his films yet the man himself seems now like something out of folklore. He needs no advocates now, while naming my own favorites is in part an act of advocacy that just seems wasted on such a canonical figure. But ask me to list the greatest directors objectively and he'll come in fairly close to the top.
ReplyDeleteHere's a top ten.
1. Vertigo
2. Rear Window
3. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
4. Psycho
5. Shadow of a Doubt
6. The 39 Steps
7. North by Northwest
8. Strangers on a Train
9. Dial M for Murder
10. The Birds
I'm shocked, shocked!
ReplyDeleteGet well, Dave!
Here's my own at-this-moment, why-the-hell-not list of favorite directors. Rankings be damned, I can't do it! It's in alphabetical order.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Ingmar Bergman
Charles Chaplin
Francis Ford Coppola
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Sergei Eisenstein
Federico Fellini
John Ford
Jean-Luc Godard
Michel Gondry
Peter Greenaway
Howard Hawks
Alfred Hitchcock
Elia Kazan
Zhang Ke Jia
Stanley Kubrick
David Lean
David Lynch
Louis Malle
The Maysles Brothers
F.W. Murnau
Yasujiro Ozu
The Brothers Quay
Nicholas Ray
Jacques Rivette
Eric Rohmer
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg
Andrei Tarkovsky
Orson Welles
Great choice to finish off a great project. It seems to be fashionable these days to bash Hitchcock so I am pleased to see so much love here. If not in the top spot, he would certainly be in the top five for me. My ranking of Hitchcock's top ten pictures:
ReplyDelete1) Vertigo
2) Rear Window
3) Psycho
4) Strangers on a Train
5) The Lady Vanishes
6) Shadow of a Doubt
7) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
8) North By Northwest
9) The 39 Steps
10)Notorious
And there are many other worthy ones like Frenzy, The Birds, Rebecca, The Trouble with Harry, and the underrated Jamaica Inn.
Thanks again for a great series and I hope you are feeling better!
ok, here is my list though not definitive for sure. The top five are solid though the order may change between the first two gentlemen.
ReplyDeleteAlfred Hitchcock
Billy Wilder
Martin Scorsese
Woody Allen
Roman Polanski
Brian DePalma
Charles Chaplin
Francis Ford Coppola
Elia Kazan
Jean-Pierre Melville
Robert Siodmak
John Ford
Howard Hawks
Buster Keaton
Fritz Lang
Anthony Mann
Nick Ray
Sam Fuller
John Huston
Steven Spielberg
Orson Welles
Sam Peckinpah
Michael Curtiz
Joel & Ethan Coen
Francois Truffaut
Stanley Kubrick
Victoria DeSica
Joseph H. Lewis
Top Ten Hitch:
ReplyDeleteShadow of a Doubt
Rear Window
Vertigo
The Lady Vanishes
North by Northwest
Spellbound
Notorious
Rebecca
Sabotage
Rope
Top Ten Directors:
Stanley Kubrick
David Lynch
Martin Scorsese
Carl T. Dreyer
Terrence Malick
Fritz Lang
Alfred Hitchcock
Roman Polanski
Ingmar Bergman
Henri Georges-Clouzot
I confess (sorry, bad pun) that I'm indifferent to 'Rear Window'. I find it the stagiest, most artificial of Hitch's films (more so, even, than 'Rope'). Also, I'd place the original 'Man Who Knew Too Much' considerably higher than the lachrymose and by-the-numbers remake.
ReplyDeleteMy personal ranking:
1. Shadow of a Doubt
2. North by Northwest
3. Psycho
4. Vertigo
5. The Lady Vanishes
6. The 39 Steps
7. Frenzy
8. The Trouble with Harry
9. The Birds
10. Foreign Correspondent
The challenge of picking one's top ten favourite directors is incredibly difficult. I don't see how you can factor in anyone still working. How do you rank, say, Terrence Malick (four movies, all of them masterful) against, say, Sidney Lumet (fifty-odd movies, half a dozen of them bona fide classics?
Can you honestly call it until said director is dead and an objective evaluation of the body of work they left behind can be made? Allowing for this, my top ten directors are:
1. Sam Peckinpah
2. Powell & Pressburger
3. Alfred Hitchcock
4. Ingmar Bergman
5. Launder & Gilliat
6. Federico Fellini
7. F.W. Murnau
8. H.G. Clouzot
9. Stanley Kubrick
10. Michael Reeves
Top 5 Hitch:
ReplyDelete1.Rear window
2.The birds
3.North by northwest
4.Vertigo
5.Frenzy
Top five Hitch
ReplyDelete1. Vertigo
2. Rear Window
3. Notorious
4. The Wrong Man
5. Psycho
Favorite directors is trickier because I still have so very, very much to learn about the cinema, so this is as rudimentary as a top 10 gets. I'm only really sure about the top 3.
1. Martin Scorsese
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Ingmar Bergman
4. Akira Kurosawa
5. Michael Powell (& Pressburger)
6. Quentin Tarantino (wouldn't be this high if Inglourious Basterds didn't change my whole view of him)
7. Jean-Luc Godard
8. Fritz Lang
9. Robert Altman
10. Jim Jarmusch
Having seen only a few films by Kenji Mizoguchi and Nicholas Ray I can safely say that I probably won't be satisfied with my top 10 until they're on it, but I need to keep going through their works to prove it.
Just been alerted to this blog by a friend, who's a film noir nut. Superb work, especially your noir list...but no Chinatown? Or is that too 'neo' to be 'noir'?
ReplyDeleteHard to argue with your directors' top 30, although sad to see David Cronenberg miss the cut. He'd top my personal list, just above Hawks, Scorsese, Godard, Keaton and the Coens.
As for Hitchcock, funnily enough I was writing about Psycho yesterday: [url]http://kinnema.blogspot.com/2010/08/film-of-day-psycho-1960.html[/url]
1. Vertigo (1958)
ReplyDelete2. Rear Window (1954)
3. North by Northwest (1959)
4. Psycho (1960)
5. Strangers on a Train (1951)
6. Notorious (1946)
7. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
8. The Birds (1963)
9. Dial M for Murder (1954)
10. Frenzy (1972)
11. Saboteur (1942)
12. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
13. The Wrong Man (1956)
14. Spellbound (1945)
15. To Catch a Thief (1955)
16. Marnie (1964)
I still have a long to go before I make it through his entire filmography, but I am pretty confident in saying that he is also my favorite filmmaker of all time.
My great List is as follows :
ReplyDelete1 Charles Chaplin and Ingmar Bergman
2 Carl Theodor Dreyer
3 Yasujiro Ozu
4 Robert Bresson
5 Kenji Mizoguchi
6 John Ford
7 F. W. Murnau
9 Jean Renoir
8 Luis Bunuel
9 Buster Keaton
10 Powell and Pressburger
11 Satijit Ray
12. K. Kieslowski
13 Ernst Lubitsch
14 Orson Welles
15 Abel Gance
Alfred Hitchcock has done lot of good films. he was the son of East End greengrocer William Hitchcock and his wife Emma. Raised as a strict Catholic and attending Saint Ignatius College, a school run by Jesuits, Hitch had very much of a regular upbringing.
ReplyDeleteWow great list follow some step:-
ReplyDeleteSteven Spielberg
Orson Welles
Sam Peckinpah
Michael Curtiz
Joel & Ethan Coen
Francois Truffaut
Stanley Kubrick
Victoria DeSica
Joseph H. Lewis
Alfred Hitchcock, destined to make sublime film thrillers, was born in London at the end of the Victorian era.
ReplyDeleteFavorite OST treat please! ;)
ReplyDeleteIt's surprising that Notorious has not fared well in the posted lists.
ReplyDeleteMy list, for what it's worth is.
1 Notorious
2 Vertigo
3 Psycho
4 Strangers On A Train
6 Rear Window
7 The Birds
8 Rebecca
9 Suspicion
10 Marnie
My top ten:
ReplyDelete1- Vertigo
2- Rear window
3- Spellbound
4- Rebecca
5- Foreign correspondent
6- The birds
7- North by northwest
8- Suspicion
9- Strangers on a train
10- Psycho
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ReplyDelete'The Wrong Man' is heavily underrated, in my eyes.
It has always been a favourite of director/critic Francois Truffaut and other European experts like Enno Patalas & Ulrich Gregor.
And, by the way, 'Wrong Man' is also Hitchcocks most important contribution to the 'Film Noir' genre and deserves without doubt a place in the top ten of any Noir list.
Below two reviews from the established American film critics Jeffrey Anderson & Dennis Schwartz about 'The Wrong Man':
http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/classic/wrongman.shtml
http://homepages.sover.net/~ozus/wrongman.htm
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He was really the great Director of his time. I hope I can watch all of his film in a short time. His films was been the great of his time. Film is his life. That is Alfred Hitchcock!
ReplyDeleteHe is one of the best Director and producer. He makes many films that were awesome and great films of classic, he is one of the best Directors that make history in Hollywood. Alfred Hitchcock is one of my best Directors of all time.
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