jetpack_monkey | Hitchcock

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.