Alfred Hitchcock
40 films · 3 series
Four archive pages put Alfred Hitchcock to four different uses, and none of them is about a film of his. Gavin Smith weighs the Gus Van Sant version against the canonical Psycho and calls the result not a true cover version but a docile one. Lizzie Francke says Lou Ye owes an open formal debt to Vertigo, and introduces that film as the unvarying favourite of cinephile directors the world over. Tom Tunney's measure is a moral one: the Nazi of the war film he is reviewing is a cardboard villain, where the U-boat captain of Lifeboat was the strongest character in his film. Brad Stevens runs the comparison backwards, taking a Preston Sturges comedy for a comic variation on Vertigo, though that comedy is seventeen years the older.
Where to Start with Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock appears in 40 films in the Pulse of Cinema catalogue. The highest Pulse-rated are Psycho, Rear Window, North by Northwest, a strong place to start exploring Alfred Hitchcock's work.
