Hitchcock

[jetpack_monkey]

Just finished up Julia's Alfred Hitchcock class (I've been tagging along every week, lack-of-actual-student-status be damned). Good stuff. I love Alfred Hitchcock.

The films we saw (in order of omglove):

Psycho*
Rebecca
Vertigo
Notorious*
Strangers on a Train
North by Northwest*
Rear Window*
Suspicion (discarding ending)
Shadow of a Doubt*
Foreign Correspondent
The 39 Steps
Suspicion (including ending)
Spellbound*

Film I had already seen prior to this class are marked with an asterik.


1. Jimmy Stewart can do creepy. He can do creepy very very well.
2. I am surprised that Vertigo isn't considered a horror film in more circles. It's not overt, but terror has never needed murder or monsters to work.
3. Dude. There are movies worth 60 dollars. Seriously. *needs Rebecca like woah*
4. A movie can be utterly obliterated by its ending.
5. The right director can make anything suspenseful... except tedious psychobabble.

Comments

[kittycat22.livejournal.com]

I saw Rebecca in high school and I LOVED it. It was brilliant. The only other Hitchcock films I've seen (to my knowledge) are Psycho and The Birds. I couldn't stand The Birds (had too much trouble leaving my 21st Century mindset to enjoy it), but I enjoyed Psycho. And I used to watch Alfred Hitchcock Presents on Nick @ Nite before it started showing nothing but tv from the 80's/90's. (i.e., when it was better).

Good stuff.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

I've been so tempted to pick up the Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1 boxset for so long now...