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Hitchcock is definitely one of the greatest, and naming my favourite would likely be a toss-up among contenders like Strangers on a Train, North by Northwest, Psycho, Dial M for Murder, Vertigo, Rear Window, Notorious and possibly The Birds. Too many brilliant films to decisively pick one. But I keep coming back to Psycho. So lean, so sly in playing with the expectations and sympathies of the audience, so disorientating, so fiendishly funny and so brutally effective. And what's more, the intangible element making it even more than the sum of its parts, aptly underlined by its devastating absence in Van Sant's remake. Pure brilliance as far as I'm concerned.
Pyscho and The Birds were, in m opinion, game changers. So eerie, so different and dark and thought provoking. Superb shots, direction, acting, script, all of it. And both built suspense palpably. Honestly they are strong classics.
Several of Hitchcock's films are just masterpieces. Hard to rate one over the other. but I'll say my very favorite is North by Northwest.
I really liked The Birds as well.
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Two stunningly brilliant films.
For me i think it would have to be "The Birds".
So I'd picked Vertigo, because among all the Hitchcock films I love, it's the one who had the biggest effect on me as a spectator, and still does today ! From the music to the actors and the stories, it gives me thrills from head to toes !
As is the dialogue:
"I think that...we're all in our private traps. Clamped in them...and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and claw...but...only at the air...only at eachother...and for all of it...we never budge an inch"
The lady vanishes is a great spy-movie as is the 39 steps, great early m,aterial from hitchcock.
N by N/W, Vertigo, The Iron Curtain all left a very strong impression on me.
If I had to chose I´d put To catch a Thief or N by N/W on the top spot, for their rather light-hearted atmosphere, and for the granite stone interior design.
PSYCHO
Third place - Psycho. The original slasher movie is still a terrific piece of suspense, thanks in no small part to Anthony Perkins. Talk about a performance ahead of it's time.
Yes Hitchcock was clearly inspired by Les Diabolique (which is better IMHO) and that is always commented on, but Psycho is still a great film.
Second Place - North By North West - Glamorous, exciting, suspenseful - everything a Bond film should be ;-). This is a film that stands up to umpteen repeat viewings. Terrific.
First - Rebecca. Is this the most achingly romantic film ever made? Probably not, but it's Hitchcock at his assured best. None of his annoying camera gimmicks, none of his clumsy use of props to create suspense. Just a great story, great acting, real, proper, genuine suspense and a Mrs Danvers to scare the heeby jeebies out of the toughest one of us. My favorite Hitchcock by a mile.
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I first saw Hardy as Shinzon in Star Trek Nemesis and found his performance so acidic he could have bitten off the rust from a bolt nut with it. Bad timing, a serious case of overacting, spitting out his lines like an amateur who fails to convey anger in a credible way... I looked him up immediately after the film and decided that was going to hate this boy for the rest of my life.
Then came Inception. And Bronson. And TTSS. And TDKR. And I was impressed. I was more than impressed! I had an epiphany. I didn't see a good actor, but a great actor. And Inception wasn't accidental, it was nothing less than a testimony of the man's abilities as an actor. I might even accept him for Bond.
Prior to 1987 I hated him. Especially his role in that short lived sitcom, "Bosom Buddies",
After seeing his work in "Nothing In Common" (one of my all time favorite films) I changed my attitude about him and have nothing but praise for his work. Forest Gump, Philadelphia, etc