I've decided to have a Hitchcock night tonight. :cool:(need a Hitchcock smiley)

My favourite film is Rope

I like Rope for its simplicity really, the actual action has happened, it takes place over the period of time it is set more or less and i like the long takes for cinematography geekiness.

Which one do you like and why?

I only watched this again the other night, I'd never heard of it till I started watching Hitchcock films a few years ago and think it's great. It's so simple as you say, in the DVD extras somebody said it'd have been better if you hadn't known David was in the chest but that's what makes it. You know and the guests don't.

Think I'm a bit more obvious though and have my favourite as Rear Window, I can just imagine sitting there watching all that stuff myself and it was good to finally see it after seeing that Simpsons ep so many years before. And the fact that it's all a big set in a studio is pretty amazing.

The Birds is my favourite. I say favourite but actually it scares the poo out of me, and I have a phobia of birds due to watching it as a child. *judder*

Hmmm, it's hard to choose. Probably Rear Window, Vertigo or North by Northwest. I like Spellbound and The Man who Knew Too Much too. I've not watched any HItchcock for ages, for shame!

I'm hoping the classic films at Cineworld will produce one. If they do, I'll organise a meet.

I had an experience that reminded me of the birds once, I was driving during the night and stopped at some services about 4am where it was half light. The otherwise empty carpark was full of crows! Just sitting there or hopping along the ground. Very eerie and silent.

A really old Hitchcock film I saw once was Mr and Mrs Smith, at first when the recent film of the same name came out I thought it was gonna be a remake ;)

Whenever I see a crow it reminds me of The Birds. The famous scene with the playground is so iconic. It's a shame that the special effects have aged so badly, but it's still a great film.

its got to be Rear Window for me.

absolute classic.

Vertigo for me.

I agree with you, EdnaK (is that a first? :hihi:)

I love Rope.
Intellectual humour.

Another vote for Rope here.

The format is based on a play, and it shows. I'd love to see a live version

When I first watched it I was thinking "I'd love to see this on stage", had no idea at the time that it was one first, of course it seems obvious when you know.

THE BIRDS....a total and undisputed masterpiece and genuinely scary moments in this, the suspense is gripping as the film builds towards the climax.....

The birds is good but I think the black and whites are the best probably vertigo, the 39 steps, saboteur and strangers on a train, there are so many good ones it's hard to say. I think he lost it in the 70's with colour. Probably his worst one was Frenzy when he tried to make a come back

Vertigo was in colour though wasn't it?

another vote for Rear Window .. I have my fingers crossed that it makes it to the Abbeydale cinema :)

Vertigo. Not only because it's a great film, but because Kim Novak is an absolute dead ringer for my partner when she was a similar age! I saw her recently in Pal Joey and she not only looked like her but had the same hairdo The White Rose had when she was in her early 20s!

There she is on the right, with Frank Sinatra and Rita Hayworth...
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/01IM00F8PVf8L/340x.jpg

Kim Novak is gorgeous!

Yup. People often forget just how spectacularly beautiful she was.

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14 films reduced to £17 hitcock boxset, just thought i'd let you all know

:D

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hitchcock-14-Disc-Box-Set/dp/B000BND224

Very tempting despite owning some of them already.

The one about the teenage girl who discovers her favourite uncle has been murdering rich widows. (I've got a teenage niece and I'm her favourite uncle)

I presume you mean Shadow of a Doubt.

I think you're right. And what's the other one about the bloke who thinks he's his mother?

Has to be Rear Window and North by Northwest for me. Never heard of Rope - will see if I can order it off lovefilm. The Birds was too scary and I think you might mean Norman Bates - but I can't remember the title. The shower scene is still too scary to watch! And I agree, Kim Novak was beautiful, so was Grace Kelly. Liked his blondes did Hitchcock.

it has to be tie between Psycho and Rope for me

Psycho i can watch and watch and watch.

'Psycho' is the film I was pretending I couldn't remember the name of.
'Rope' is based on a true story about two young men who kill somebody just for kicks. It's filmed in a series of long takes. so film time matches real time. I found it a bit stylised and implausible. James Stewart returns to their apartment just after the murder, because he's forgotten something and becomes suspicious of their jittery behaviour. Not one of Hitch's best.

Patrick Hamilton, who wrote the play Rope was based on, insisted it was not based on the true story it was alleged to be based on.

Got to be The Birds for me.
Though really enjoyed Strangers on a Train too.

Big Hitchcock fan, big thumbs up to Alfie! :thumbsup:

For me its 'North by Northwest'.

Definitely North by North West, if just for the 'crop dusting' scene! It still spooks me out no matter how many times I see it!

Rear Window for me..... It was the first Hitchcock film I saw and it enticed me into buying all his stuff.

39 Steps Best Spy film ever made.

Its got to be MArnie - Sean Connery sooo sexy in it. Think it was Tippi Hedron (Melanie Griffiths ma). Loved the bit in it where he kisses her by the door when she is frightened by lightening..... Ive got it on old videa may have to watch it now.

has to be Rear Window for me also, loved it!

Psycho

I'm still distraught that i never got to watch this film without knowing who the killer was from the start!
I can't wait till i suffer complete memory loss and get to see it the way it was mean't to be seen!
Of course i am relying on you lot to remind me to watch it. :confused:

Shadow of a Doubt or 39 Steps. Or maybe The Birds. Or Psycho. Though I like Rebecca a lot as well....Notorious is fantastic too.

Nope its gotta be Vertigo.

No. Lady Vanishes. Yep. The Lady Vanishes.

North by Northwest; I love the stylish couple's "chance" meeting on the train.

I'm hoping the classic films at Cineworld will produce one. If they do, I'll organise a meet.

That would be amazing.

This may be a cliche because even someone raised in a cupboard knows this one but I think Psycho is just Hitchcock perfection.

Rope is also a favourite. I particularly like the Hitchcock & Jimmy Stewart combination.

Really would love a Hitchcock extravaganza at Cineworld :love:

it has to be tie between Psycho and Rope for me

Psycho i can watch and watch and watch.

I'm with you. Psycho never grows boring.

Vertigo, James Stewart and Kim Novak are such good actors.

To Catch A Thief.

I think I have to change mine to Shadow of a Doubt, I watched it the other day and loved it.

Rear window is my fav ..... Birds scares me to death - still have nightmares

..North by Northwest for me .

I was so torn between Rear window and Psycho.. but theyre tied for 2nd plae.

My fave is The Byrds.

for me it has to be Psycho and the Birds

On the whole I prefer those of Hitchcock's films for which Bernard Hermann wrote the soundtrack. Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho - a masterpiece within a masterpiece.

You can't beat a beautiful director-composer relationship: Leone-Morricone, Kieslowski-Preisner, Spielberg-Williams, Burton-Elfman ...

There are so many to choose from. When I was younger I would have said it's a toss up between Psycho and The Birds but in recent years I've discovered some of his other masterpieces like North By Northwest, Rear Window and Vertigo. I'd place my vote on the latter.

Just out of curiosity is anyone here familiar with his silen era films? I particularly liked The Lodger. Or even a bit further along the way when sound came in Lifeboat, which could been seen as a dry run for Rope of Rear Window.

He was a fascinating director.