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The Films of Alfred Hitchcock: Is there a director's cut of "Psycho"?
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Zaz
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2/8 8:00pm
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RE: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock: Now Discussing: "Secret Agent" (1936)
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Vanity Fair has fun with Hitchcock movies: New Stars in Old Films
Renee Zegweller looked amazing like Anne Bancroft in her shot.
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Led-Zeppelin
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I am ashamed to stay I still to this day have not seen a single Hitchcock film.
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Zaz
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Well, start watching some...
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JohnWesleyDowney
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Led-Zeppelin posted:
I am ashamed to stay I still to this day have not seen a single Hitchcock film.
There's plenty to choose from...he started making films in the 1920s and his last one was in 1976. Those are just the movies, he directed a number of episodes of his TV show as well.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
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RE: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock: Now Discussing: Vanity Fair Recreations
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Next: "Sabotage" (1936)
aka "The Woman Alone"
The title of this film is the source of much confusion: it is based on Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent" (the title of Hitchcock's last film), and one of Hitchcock's American films is called "Saboteur".
This one stars Sylvia Sydney (then a considerable Hollywood star), and Oskar Homolka (who is excellent as the secret agent in question). Notorious for a death that Hitchcock later thought a mistake (he's wrong), and a very long sequence prior to a murder, when we can see that it's going to happen, and the suspense becomes very strong. Nasty and very interesting; only 76 minutes long. However, some of the tapes and DVDs of this movie are defective, so be careful what you buy.
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Zaz
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Sidebar: If you want to see some Hitchcock, TCM is showing the following tomorrow (check your listings)
4:30am Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
A young girl fears her favorite uncle may be a killer.
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-108 mins, TV-PG
Excellent film about a serial killer who goes home, if not to mother, close enough.
6:30am Notorious (1946)
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-101 mins, TV-PG
Bergman and Grant are sexy and tough. And sexy.
8:15am Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor's son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-120 mins, TV-PG
Hitchcock remade his 30's hit. The differences are fascinating.
10:30am North By Northwest (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-136 mins, TV-PG
Classic, witty, thriller.
1:00pm Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-109 mins, TV-PG
Perverse in the extreme.
3:00pm Birds, The (1963)
In a California coastal area, flocks of birds unaccountably make deadly attacks on humans.
Cast: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-119 mins, TV-14
Quite interesting.
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solojones
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RE: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock: Now Discussing: Hitchcock Films on TCM
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Hey Zaz, think I should take this up again? Sorry, I literally didn't have internet access except for like one day a week all last semester. We were just getting into the good stuff (read: stuff I've seen)
Marathons are fun! Yes, I highly recommend people check out Shadow of a Doubt, North by Northwest, and Psycho from this grouping.
oooh, that Vanity Fair photoshoot is cool. And actually I think Zellwegger looks like Angelica Huston in that...
But why did they pick someone for Marion in Psycho but not for Norman  (hint: they should have used Noah Wyle!)
Also, I saw Psycho at the ArcLight on Halloween. 35mm print. AMAZING. I'll have to tell about it when it's not 2am 
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solojones posted:
Yes, I highly recommend people check out Shadow of a Doubt, North by Northwest, and Psycho from this grouping.
Agreed. All great movies. Also Rear Window.
But The Birds is overrated.
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I  Rear Window
I love those movies where the director intentionally challenges himself by limitations and still manages to create a really good movie: like setting your entire plot through the eyes of an immobile photographer stuck watching the drama of his neighbours and discovering a horrible murder plot in your own backyard. My personal favorite Hitchcock film (though I recognize that Psycho is his best and definitive flick).
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Zaz
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2/23 9:03am
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I'd be delighted if you wanted to continue this, solojones.
"The Man Who Knew Too Much" is on now...
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On the Vanity Fair covershoot: Only two of these are really great. The lighting and color effects on the MARNIE picture are perfect, and Naomi Watts looks remarkably like Hedren in the shot. The Cottilard PSYCHO shots are also really great. She may not be a blonde, but she damn well nails Leigh's expression. She also doesn't look totally out of place to boot. The rest of the pictures are...well, let's just put it this way: they make you realize that not only do very few photographer know how to actually shoot a movie today, but it also makes you wonder whatever happened to real "stars." Say what you want about Farley Granger's acting, but he didn't look out of place in STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. Now look at Emile Hirsch. Ouch. Not even a contest. A few of these are actually quite comical. The Seth Rogen one (and his expression) is pretty hillarious (and I think, or at least I hope, that was the intention). The LIFEBOAT one is really unintentionally humorous. The Jodie Foster and the Johansson/Bardem pictures also crack me up (the Bardem picture clearly being an homage to his performance and character in Almodovar's LIVE FLESH - or again, at least I hope so, maybe I give VF too much credit?). And what's up with the digital manipulation on the VERTIGO and CATCH A THIEF photos?
On the TCM marathon: See them all. I can't in good conscious vouch for THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (save the opera scene), but the rest are all great. Of the bunch, I actually think NOTORIOUS is the best. I caught snippets of this on TCM a few months back, having not seen it in a few years, and I was astonished by how modern the filmmaking in this is, even moreso than some of Hitchcock's later films. It's really great, but then so are REAR WINDOW, PSYCHO, and NORTH BY NORTHWEST. SHADOW OF A DOUBT and THE BIRDS are nearly there as well.
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Zaz
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2/23 7:14pm
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The "Marnie" shot is a little too warm. I agree that the "Psycho" one works, but "Strangers on a Train", "To Catch a Thief" and "Vertigo" ones are all disasters.
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You really can see how much movie stars and movie photography has changed, huh? ...
Shadow of a Doubt was Hitch's favourite film of his, btw.
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Zaz
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That's because he based Charlie's sister on his own mother.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
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Tomorrow on TCM:
Paradine Case, The (1947)
A married lawyer falls for the woman he's defending on murder charges.
Cast: Gregory Peck, Alida Valli, Charles Laughton. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-114 mins, TV-PG
Saw this recently and thought it a misfire. Judge for yourself...
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