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Hitchcock movies.
Obscure or popular. Overrated or underrated. Discuss em all.

My favourite underrated hitchcock is stage fright.

>>212679236 (OP)
Never watched any of them because they suck.

I like 39 Steps and Sabotage. I feel like they're both pretty obscure as far as Hitchcock goes.

Vertigo and The Lady Vanishes are my favorites.

I just watched To Catch a Thief and I don't know how boomers suffered through movie dialogue back then. The MCU may be 5% quips, but this was 100% quips.

>>212679236 (OP)
North by Northwest is my favourite, and I think Dial M is underrated.

Dial M For Murder is a masterpiece, both The Lady Vanishes and Notorious are great.

My favourite Hitchcock film is The 39 Steps
North by Northwest is fun but The 39 Steps is way better, likely because of my half English temperament

>>212680986
>Dial M For Murder is a masterpiece
My favourite Hitchcock. I don't know why he disliked it. My favourite movies always seem to be the directors' least favourite of their ouevre, like The Passion of Anna for Bergman.

>>212679236 (OP)
for me it's Frenzy

>>212681213
If you want the full story, snobs from the Nouvelle Vague decided at the time that this one from the master was not interesting, and everyone bowed to these French fucks. This is why nobody talks about this magnificent movie nowadays.

>>212681584
* everyone even Hitchcock himself

>>212679236 (OP)
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>>212680986
Older directors like Hitchcock and Welles had a photogenic look about them despite being fat and balding

say something good about them

>>212681792
I like torn curtain, couldn't get more than 30 minutes into topaz.

I watched Champagne recently

Don't sleep on Foreign Correspondent. Where tf is the love for Rear Window?

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>>212681428
Knowers

>>212679294
Blower

his best cameo?

just seen frenzy a few weeks ago on a very hot sunday. it took the mind off the heat and i was surprised i never heard of it before, because its so proficient in all aspects. especially the actors shine and it looks simple, but still great. sometimes it even feels uncinematic or like a tvmovie, but that adds realism and grit to the whole thing. that one strangle scene it has was actually very intense.

I got very tense watching the scene in Rope when the housekeeper is steadily removing items from atop the chest one by one, and just as she's about to open the chest, Brandon stops her.

Gayest? Rope
Second gayest? Strangers
Hottest? Grace in RW
second hottest? Suzanne Pleshette
Most cinematic? Mt Rushmore in NBNW
Funniest? Wife's cooking in Frenzy
Most boring? The Wrong Man, I Confess
Less than it could have been? Shadow of a Doubt
Most overrated? The Birds
Most non Hitchcock? Marnie
Weakest leading lady? Doris Day
Best leading man? Cary, Ray Milland

>>212684327
>Hottest? Grace in RW
you mean in To Catch a Thief?

thoughts on De Palma's Hitchcock rip offs?

>>212684728
Tributes. Plus, he wrote AND directed them.

>>212684531
Prefer in the nightgown and staying the night in RW. But you settle for a kiss goodnight.

someone wrote that women are particularly thrilled by The Birds because all the silence in the movie is unnerving to them. I never really understood the appeal until reading that

I don't know why North by Northwest is so liked, apart from a few scenes it's not at all good. I liked Rear Window. Those are the only two I've seen.

>>212684728
Sisters is kino

am I the only one that thinks Vertigo is one of his worst?

>>212685400
watch it again in 5+ years

>>212685400
I don't like it either. Also downbeat ending.

>>212684728
Body Double is a much better movie when its doing its own thing and not trying to remake vertigo.

What are the best Hitchcock blu-rays?

>>212679236 (OP)
Basically the Nolan of his day. Extreme technical skill, but ultimately made mid movies that succeeded at letting dumb people feel smart.

>>212679236 (OP)
I fucking love Notorious so much
>>212686007
>downbeat ending bad
Not an argument