Shane wrote:|It's been a while but I voted for vertigo, which makes me want to go rent it tonight.
|Hey what was that one he did that was all in one room?
that was hitchcock right?
Pops Freshenmeyer wrote:Yeah, that was Rope, 1948. His first color film, very few cuts. The whole film must be 10-15 very long takes strung together.
havocSchultz wrote:Shane wrote:|It's been a while but I voted for vertigo, which makes me want to go rent it tonight.
|Hey what was that one he did that was all in one room?
that was hitchcock right?
i believe that was Rope - it was originally marketed as done all in one take - but it was later revealed that is was a small number of LONG takes and subtley cut where you couldn't really notice - not bad film - good to check out for the technique and direction at least...
Shane wrote:havocSchultz wrote:Shane wrote:|It's been a while but I voted for vertigo, which makes me want to go rent it tonight.
|Hey what was that one he did that was all in one room?
that was hitchcock right?
i believe that was Rope - it was originally marketed as done all in one take - but it was later revealed that is was a small number of LONG takes and subtley cut where you couldn't really notice - not bad film - good to check out for the technique and direction at least...
wow that is an awesome concept.
I need to rent that too.
I never have seen it, just scenes from it. |It's got a part where it like goes black for a while, and there is a fight or something in the dark that you can't see right?
Bluebottle wrote:The ONLY thing I wish was different: Grace Kelly instead of Eva Marie Saint. I love EMS, but it was supposed to be Grace Kelly - it should have been Grace Kelly.
Bluebottle wrote:North by Northwest.
I'm a big fan of Cary Grant, and i think his work with Hitch was some of his best, and he peaked with this film. The perfect "Wrong Guy" plot.
The ONLY thing I wish was different: Grace Kelly instead of Eva Marie Saint. I love EMS, but it was supposed to be Grace Kelly - it should have been Grace Kelly.
Bluebottle wrote:she was a true "movie star".
Shane wrote:Yeah all these actresses now days have nothing on Grace Kelly, or Audrey Hepburn, or |Judy Garland.
The women on film then were just of a higher class and caliber
Shane wrote:man, all this talk has me wanting to watch some hitchcock.
I'm going to have to go to blockbuster tonight.
Bluebottle wrote:I've always loved "Trouble with Grande Rojo". I thought it was quite successful as a dark comedy, and i always wished he had tried his hand at another film like that.
Adam Balm wrote:Torn Curtain's one of my favorite movies of all time. As far as how it ranks with most Hitchcock fans, this movie usually isn't even on their B list, but man do I love the thing like a three legged dog....
minstrel wrote:And North by Northwest edges out Rear Window for me.
I also like Rope and Dial M for Murder.
seppukudkurosawa wrote:This has been the hardest poll for me to answer out of all the polls in the Zone (except the What's Your Favourite Species of Monkey poll, fuck me I still have no idea how to even begin answering that one...I ended up with Spider Monkeys because they're so cute, but come to think of it Howler Monkeys are also deserving of a vote. Damn).
Having looked at all the names all laid-out like that, I found myself leaning away from the obvious choices. North by Northwest and Vertigo may be brilliant and rewatchable, but I don't think they're my favourite Hitch films. I ended up voting for Rebecca. First because Joan Fontaine looks like she's been cut from The Divine Log of Beauty with Thor's Hammer&Chisel...which is my way of saying she looks hot. And secondly, Laurence Olivier is great in this movie as a spooked count who seems haunted by the death of his wife. Up until the final twist (come on this is Hitch, the guy who had an affair with an Indian sitar player to produce M Night Shyamalan), the movie is as eerie as anything he's done. Yeah, I'm glad I voted for this movie, it's a classic. The thing is, when I first caught it on TV one time, I thought it was far too dry for my tastes, but then I found out it was made by Hitch and gave it another shot and was surprised by how much I loved it.
Crippled Avenger wrote:seppukudkurosawa's post was hilarious. That's exactly what Cock's biography should have been. That would actually be a fun post to start. Fictional biographies of directors that 'explain' the obsessions that they returned to many times over their films. That description of Cock perfectly summarized in a couple sentences what film studies profs try to discuss in hundreds of pages. Seppudukkurosawa: You should start a post with that thread and open it up to other directors.
magicmonkey wrote:The 39 Steps. Love that movie. Its almost Kubrickian in its excellence.
Shane wrote:magicmonkey wrote:The 39 Steps. Love that movie. Its almost Kubrickian in its excellence.
Is that one of his silent films?
I saw it in the store for three bucks and almost bought it, I just might go up there and pick it up today. At the truck stop down the highway they have piles of old Hichcock DVD's for three bucks.
The poll at the top wrote:what is the greatest Hitchcock film?
thomasgaffney wrote:The poll at the top wrote:what is the greatest Hitchcock film?
The one that's better than anything Kubrick, Kurosawa, Scorsese, or Spielberg ever did. Oh wait..... Is that a different poll?
thomasgaffney wrote:The poll at the top wrote:what is the greatest Hitchcock film?
The one that's better than anything Kubrick, Kurosawa, Scorsese, or Spielberg ever did. Oh wait..... Is that a different poll?
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