best Hitchcock films

The Bollox

I am looking to get my hands on a few of Hitchcock's films. I have my eye on Psycho and Strangers On A Train. What others would you highly reccomend?

Elmo

Rear Window
North by Northwest
Rope
Sabotage
Rebecca

mike65

Strangers.. is exellent. Rope is interesting for its plot (daring enough at the time) and its "10 min take" technique. Rear Window as classic as is North by Northwest, Shadow of A Doubt is one of his less remembered top films. Avoid The Man Who Knew Too Much (either version). Marnie is underrated.

Mike.

The Bollox

another I was looking at getting is Vertigo

I have heard some great things about Rear Window

Anam

Dial M for Murder is great.

Rear Window and North by Northwest are also amazing.

The Birds is pretty underrated too imo.

Running Bing

Rebecca and notorious are also up there with his best. Vertigo is quite possibly the greatest movie ever made never mind the best hitchcock. Have to disagree with mike on the man who new to much. The jimmy stewart version is absolutely class and a good film for someone not to familiar with hitchcock. Grace kelly is suprisingly good in it. Sabatouer is also really good, one of my personal favs. Im a huge fan and ive yet to see a hitchcock film I didnt like but you just cant go wrong with north by northwest, rear window, psycho and vertigo. His four undisputed "classics".


In four replies youve already got 11 film recommendations. There all good. Not too many filmmakers youd get that with. The man was a genius.

Crumbs

When you've finished with all the above, add The Lady Vanishes to your list. It was one of his last made before moving to Hollywood and it's quite light-hearted compared to his usual fare but it's one of my favourites.

Babybing wrote:

Have to disagree with mike on the man who new to much. The jimmy stewart version is absolutely class and a good film for someone not to familiar with hitchcock. Grace kelly is suprisingly good in it.

I also like his remade version of The Man Who Knew Too Much (although it was Doris Day in it, not Grace Kelly unfortunately).

And I agree that Vertigo = best film ever.

kinaldo

Tough to call from what I've seen I think I'd go with

1) Vertigo
2) Rebecca
3) North by Northwest
4) Dial M for Murder
5) Lifeboat
6) The Birds
7) Psycho
8) Rear Window
9) Notorious

Elmo

When you've finished with all the above, add The Lady Vanishes to your list. It was one of his last made before moving to Hollywood and it's quite light-hearted compared to his usual fare but it's one of my favourites.

Sabotage is base in london not sure if he was doing Hollywood movies during the making of that movie. I like it because it deals with an explosion on a London Bus and felt when watching that not much had changed only the bad guys were germans. I had watched it around the time of the london train boomings.

There is another american film by Hitchcock call Saboture.

lodgepole

The 39 Steps will quite literally blow your mind.

And Rope.

Besides that it's worth watching all of his later classics (Birds, Psycho, North by Northwest etc).

Running Bing

Crumbs wrote:

(although it was Doris Day in it, not Grace Kelly unfortunately)

Sorry got the names mixed up:o But like I said up to this doris day had mostly done very light hearted comedies and musicals but she shows she isnt a bad actress in this, although iirc he did want grace kelly for this. Cant believe i forgot the lady vanishes and 39 steps as well. Their both brilliant.

nlgbbbblth

My Hitchcock Top 10

1 Rope
2 Frenzy
3 Psycho
4 Strangers On A Train
5 Vertigo
6 The 39 Steps
7 The Trouble With Harry
8 Marnie
9 Notorious
10 Family Plot

Was speaking to some work colleagues about films last week. Two of them have never heard of Hitchcock. I dare someone to try and condone this ignorance! [the sad thing is - somebody will]

Running Bing

nlgbbbblth wrote:

Two of them have never heard of Hitchcock.

Your taking the p1ss? Surely if their engaging in a converstaion about films they would have heard of hitchcock. I bet they can do spot on impression of the crazy frog and recite every word of paris hiltons new song though.:(

Elmo

Weather she was joking or not AND i hope she was Anne Heshe in an interview for [SIZE="-3"]Psycho 1999[/SIZE] said she had never heard of Hitchcock.

Which I don't get since she would have prob seen Hitchcock presents at some stage in her life.

Was speaking to some work colleagues about films last week. Two of them have never heard of Hitchcock. I dare someone to try and condone this ignorance!

I hope your organising a Hitchcock training day for them. What age where they? Not that age has anything to do with it.

What films did they like?

mike65

Anything with Will Farrell in it!

Mike.

Running Bing

Elmo wrote:

Weather she was joking or not AND i hope she was Anne Heshe in an interview for [SIZE="-3"]Psycho 1999[/SIZE] said she had never heard of Hitchcock.

Had to be a joke. I imagine the cast and crew of that film watched the origianl psycho at least 2,000 times prior to making the film. Its practically shot for shot with the original. Which begs the question why? even more.

Elmo

Had to be a joke. I imagine the cast and crew of that film watched the origianl psycho at least 2,000 times prior to making the film. Its practically shot for shot with the original. Which begs the question why? even more.

Before she start the production I guess.

nlgbbbblth

Elmo wrote:

I hope your organising a Hitchcock training day for them. What age where they? Not that age has anything to do with it.

What films did they like?

ages

29
25
23

I think.

What films did they like?

Forrest Gump
The Shawshank Redemption
Pretty Woman
The Waterboy
Road Trip
Braveheart

all got the thumbs up from them.

I mentioned Donnie Darko - one person had vaguely heard of this but was under the impression that it was *weird*. The other two had blank faces.

they also informed me that *they cannot watch* subtitled or black and white films.

I tried to explain that English was not everybody's first language so filmmakers in foreign countries would naturally have the dialogue in their native tongue. I also pointed out that by ignoring foreign films, they were missing out on tons of good stuff. Both points went over their collective heads.
that sort of ignorance / sh*t is par for the course.
last year I said I was going to Electric Picnic, the 29 year old asked me who was playing.

'er, Nick Cave, Kraftwerk, Flaming Lips' I started with.

'I never even heard of any of them' was his retort.

pricks. :rolleyes:

Elmo

they also informed me that *they cannot watch* subtitled or black and white films.

You need to show them Psycho and Nikita that will show them what they can and cannot watch.

Also Some Like It Hot!

What do they do for a living? also I have to ask but are they women? Sorry!

Ok I know this is going way of the topic but I did mention a Hitchcock film. Oh yeah and a Besson and a Wilder I am such the film snob lol

nlgbbbblth

Elmo wrote:

What do they do for a living? also I have to ask but are they women? Sorry!

Banking. Two of the three are women.

I find the majority (but not all) of my colleagues in the financial services industry do not share my interest in music, films, television or literature.

mike65

Thats why they work in finance - the dullest most literal people on the planet are bankers.

Mike.