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Richard L. Coe of The Washington Post praised the film as a "wonderful weirdie," writing that "Hitchcock has even more fun than usual with trick angles, floor shots and striking use of color. More than once he gives us critical scenes in long shots establishing how he's going to get away with a couple of story tricks."
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Bernard Herrmann
- May 9, 1958
- He Was Working Class. You might picture Alfred Hitchcock growing up in cold, dark, gothic manor in the English countryside. Well, that's not the case. The Master of Suspense was born in 1899 to a family of...
- He Wanted More. Hitchcock's parents may have been working class, but his uncle had moved himself up in the world. Young Alfred often visited his uncle's huge Victorian home, or vacationed with him at a gorgeous cottage by the seaside.
- He Was A Scared Little Boy. Few people who knew young Alfred Hitchcock would have predicted him growing up to become the Master of Suspense. He was a nervous and well-behaved boy throughout his childhood—but he hid a secret pain.
- His Parents Frightened Him. When it came to discipline, Hitchcock's father believed in the belt, plain and simple—but his mother's psychological punishment might have been even worse.
Dec 26, 2012 · Ignoring the warnings of his long-suffering wife Alma (Imelda Staunton), he soon fell head-over-heels in love with this untouchable Nordic blonde. But when she spurned his advances, the director ...
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- Jon Fusco
- Hitchcock uses film as a place for audiences to project their anxieties. This could very well be the most overwhelmingly identifiable trait of a Hitchcockian movie.
- Hitchcock's films were a way for him to deal with his own worst fears. Hitchcock once said, “The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them."
- Hitchcock knows you're watching. It's true that the gaze plays a very important role in many of Hitchcock's films. It's also important, however, to realize that voyeurism is employed as more than just a thematic device (as is the case in Rear Window.)
- Hitchcock mastered every tool at his disposal. As Lopes is keen to point out, “Hitchcock mastered every single aspect of filmmaking: screenplay, cutting, photography, sound.”
Jan 14, 2017 · Below are the eight reasons that Vertigo is Alfred Hitchcock’s unequivocal greatest film. 1. Jimmy Stewart. The star of such films as The Philadelphia Story, Harvey, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It’s a Wonderful Life is famous for being a humble, generous Everyman in the majority of his films.
May 27, 2010 · Hitchcock, Vertigo, and the Uncanny. Posted by Joel Gunz on May 27, 2010. Hitchcock often blended eroticism with his murders, to uncanny effect. Here's a lovely scene with Grace Kelly and Anthony Dawson in Dial M for Murder. In Strangers on a Train (1951), an aspiring politician meets cute with his evil twin, leading to chaos and murder.
Vertigo is a 1958 American psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore and Henry Jones. The film is widely considered the greatest film ever made, being at number #1 in the 2012 British Film Institute's Sight & Sound critics' poll. John "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart) is a retired San Francisco ...
