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| 15 FEB 2003 at 4:11am |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Rear Window. Because it's perfect, everything from the script to the acting. It's so minimal yet so effective. IMO, is the best movie that portrays the genious Hitchcock was. Vertigo comes close.
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| 15 FEB 2003 at 4:12am |
CarlaJourneyman
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Status : Online | "BIRDS"!!!! Because after watching that movie, I became incredibly afraid of birds....and still watch the movie every time it's played on TV (I have to see the movie, I don't know why ???)
And I think I wrote exactly the same in another topic just a while ago... :
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| 15 FEB 2003 at 4:18am |
| Deleted User | Psycho of course (well...that's the only one I saw ). Cliché, but the SHOWER SCENE is amazing !
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| 15 FEB 2003 at 5:02am |
sennebecGuild Master
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Joined: 15 NOV 2004
Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Rael (15 FEB 2003 4:11am)
Rear Window. Because it's perfect, everything from the script to the acting.
doesn't get better than this
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| 15 FEB 2003 at 12:47pm |
InieJourneyman
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Status : Online | B&W: Young and Innocent / Spellbound (I can't choose, both are equally brilliant). Young and Innocent has a marvelous script with a great apotheosis. Spellbound is thrilling. The symbolism is great and not over the top. You never feel really confident that there isn't anything wrong with Gregory Peck...
Color: Rope. Apart from the famous 10 minutes-shots of course, I think it's one of James Stewart's finest performances. It takes place in one room but it is yet one of the most dynamic films I've ever seen. Can't get enough of it.
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| 15 FEB 2003 at 2:22pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | from the ones i've seen of course, probably rear window and vertigo
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 15 FEB 2003 at 8:42pm |
CarlaJourneyman
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Status : Online | Yes, Rear Window is really a masterpiece...And it was filmed in only one set
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| 15 FEB 2003 at 9:04pm |
JoGuild Master
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Location: AU, Qld.
Status : Offline | Haven't seen one in years but loved Spellbound and Rear Window.
Did any of you see the Alfred Hitchcock series years ago - I don't mean movies, think each one was only about an hour long and their were some really scary ones.
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| 15 FEB 2003 at 10:37pm |
GayleSchattenjger
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Status : Online | Thanks you guys, I could not remember the name: Spellbound with Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman.
The two others are: Rope which I rented a couple of years ago and think it is outstanding along with Strangers On A Train.
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| 16 FEB 2003 at 12:07am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By narji (15 FEB 2003 9:03pm)
Did any of you see the Alfred Hitchcock series years ago - I don't mean movies, think each one was only about an hour long and their were some really scary ones.
i remember watching that series (wasn't it called "A.H. presents"?)... IIRC he had nothing to do with the episodes though - he was only presenting them
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 16 FEB 2003 at 12:58am |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I've only seen two or three Hitchcock movies, but out of those, I liked North By Northwest the most. It looks like I'll have to see Rear Window based on what you guys are saying.
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| 16 FEB 2003 at 5:52pm |
sennebecGuild Master
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Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Gayle (15 FEB 2003 10:36pm)
...Strangers On A Train.
ooooo... great concept, huh
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| 16 FEB 2003 at 6:09pm |
GayleSchattenjger
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Status : Online | It sure was, Sennebec, and like The Rope, great character involvement.
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| 17 FEB 2003 at 8:47pm |
KurtSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | I think it has to be North by Northwest mostly because of Cary Grants excellent performance.
Rear Window & Birds are outstanding movies as well.
Was du nicht willst, daß man dir tut,&&das fueg auch keinem andren zu !&&&& o not do to others, what you do not want done to yourself !
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| 19 FEB 2003 at 1:15am |
dombrewerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Adding another nod for Psycho. Don't think it can be stated enough how unexpectedly terrifying this film must have been when it was first released.
We are so used to twists and turns in our films now it's almost second nature - this started that trend!!
I don't think i'll be spoiling the film for anyone when i write that having Marion knifed to death in the shower half way through the movie when she has been the focus for the duration was a brilliant and gutting twist ('specially for her! )
What makes this one live on and on
a) Anthony Perkins performance is decades ahead of his time. Compare everyone else doing standard declamatory thriller acting with Perkins twitchy, naturalistic everyman style. Totally modern and endlessly watchable. The final cell scene is unmatchable.
b) Bernard Herrmann's awesome score. This one, like so many of his Hitchcock scores, delivers. I've got a recording of the LA Symphonic doing the Psycho suite from the late 90s, and the shower sequence just turns my stomach it's so effective.
I think this is one of the best ten films ever, so definitely my top Hitchcock. Honorable mentions to Vertigo (Herrmann's best score bar none, IMO), The Birds & Rear Window.
The man was a total genius!!!!
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