Hitchcock and Hitch influenced films
edith head
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dogs yesterday was alfred hitchcock's borthday so there was a marathon on cable tv.I watched The Man Who Knew Too Much for the first time (the remake) and this shit was 
i loved this scene
wtf? 
i hope i never have to catch a dead guy by the face and have that happenWhat are you favorites? my all time favorite is The Birds
take that tippi hedrenI also interested in modern hitchcock-influenced films that are well done (no m. night) so drop some knowledge if you have some
i loved this scenewtf? i hope i never have to catch a dead guy by the face and have that happenWhat are you favorites? my all time favorite is The Birdstake that tippi hedrenI also interested in modern hitchcock-influenced films that are well done (no m. night) so drop some knowledge if you have some
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Blow Out is my fave De Palma film. There are a lot of blatant (and acknowledged) Hitchcock bites throughout his films. There's a scene in Body Double where the protagonist is tailing the girl he thinks is Melanie Griffith, and which is a straight jack of the scene from Vertigo where James Stewart is tailing Kim Novak, and Body Double itself is pretty much a rework of Rear Window. Then you've got Michael Caine's serial killer in drag from Dressed To Kill, which is an echo of Norman Bates in Psycho - there's even a similar shower scene in there as well.
Hitchcock is to movies what James Brown is to sampling - everyone's taken a little bit, even if they don't realise it. The "dolly-out/zoom-in" shot in Vertigo (most famously jacked by Spielberg for Jaws) has become a cliche in its own right.
The Machinist bares quite a few similarities to some of Hitchcock's stylings.
If you can get the Truffaut book "Hitchcock" do so... tis great.
extra: I remember reading once that Hitchcock loved Smokey And The Bandit hehe
another film hmmmmmm semi Hitchcock inspired is the delightful "Charade" with Cary Grant, it might still be in the public domain ie FREE to download. A very funny witty and excellent watch.
SG
"Swimming Pool" and Woody Allen's "Match Point" are two relatively recent and relatively Hitchcock-esque movies worth seeing.
anyone else - and, like Hitchcock, has been making films for 50 years
now...If you aren't up on him, Au**ey, check out some of his early
60's stuff, it's almost uniformly excellent.
Fav Hitch flicks:
Notorious
Vertigo
Psycho
Saboteur
Foreign Correspondent
39 Steps
Lady Vanishes
etc
etc
etc
nice. thanks. shadow of a doubt is messed up. i love how nothing is sacred and relatives can be the villains
my top 5 favorite hitchcock scenes: (this site is great for comprehensive hitchcock stills)
1) The Birds
When the fam thinks they're safe in the home and the birds bumrush them through the fireplace
2) The Birds
The apocalyptic everything in flames bird frenzy climax triggered by a unfortunate chain of events
3) Vertigo
That spooky scene where he's spying on her at Fort Point and she seems like a ghost
4) Rear Window
The scene where he's looking through the telephoto lens and Perry Mason sees him watching him. That is the "holy shit, you are a dead man" moment.
5) North by Northwest
plane chase scene obviously. totally unexpected and scary.
Here's my favorite scene from Hitchcock:
Strangers on a Train - When Bruno kills Guy's wife on the island -
the entire scene is chilling, but the shot reflecting the murder in her fallen
glasses has stayed with me since childhood.
raer Film Noir at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge a few weeks ago,
called Pushover ... it starred Fred MacMurray and Kim Novak,
and was excellent - Interestingly enough, it came out just a few
months before Rear Window yet shared many of the same themes!
Most of the film involved MacMurray & partner Phil Carey as cops on
a stakeout, watching Kim Novak's apartment through binoculars from
an abandoned apartment across the courtyard ... through the course
of the film, Carey becomes obsessed with her next-door neighbor, whom
he finds himself watching all night, musing over way of living and eventually
meeting and hooking up with her... now, the Hitchcock was of course based
on a Woolrich story, and was being made at the same time, so it's not like
Hitch ripped it off or anything ... but you can be sure he saw the film,
as it was Kim Novak's debut, and everyone knows how he went for those
icy blondes!
Yes - I would like to think the restored (by UCLA) print of
this and the other films in the series means that they are
coming out on DVD ... I hope ...
"Nobody Lives Forever" was
Yes! I feel like it doesn't come up as often as it should in these discussions.
I have not seen Rope in ages this is the one shot in a series (3 or 4) of continuous long shots? well some are cleverly edited.
Irreversible takes this idea. Any other films like that?
- Shadow of a Doubt
- The Lodger
- Rear Window
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (remake)
- The Lady Vanishes
Ha! I designed that DVD cover.
I thought the movie was pretty boring though. Maybe I should revisit.
I'm sorry.
Yes it's like a mid sixties Hitchcock played a little more for laughs - love that film.
Fav Hitchcock would have to be Vertigo but have a lot of time for his Brit flicks, particularly The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes. Also, special mentions for Notorious which is a superb example of hiding a love story within a thriller and Spellbound which is just great on every level and has the famous Dali dream sequence as well.
Noone ever gives any love for Marnie. While it's a pretty uneven piece the actual story themes are about as raw as nasty as you get. You get the feeling that Hitch was properly exacting some revenge on Tippi in that one.
Damn! Nice work!
The film is definately flawed and not one of his "major" ones, but I think it's a brilliant take on the "Rear Window" voyeur theme.