"Dial H For Hitchcock: The Genius Behind The Showman" documentary (1999)
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- Опубліковано 17 гру 2020
- Extensive documentary about the life and career of the legendary Alfred Hitchcock. Features clips and in-depth discussion about many of his films, as well as interviews with filmmaking collaborators and admirers including: Jonathan Demme, Brian De Palma, Curtis Hanson, Janet Leigh, Joseph Stefano, John Michael Hayes, Norman Lloyd, Peter Bogdanovich, Ronald Neame, Bryan Singer, Teresa Wright, Robert Altman, Wes Craven, Tippi Hedren, and Hitchcock's daughter, Patricia.
Narrated by Kevin Spacey. - Фільми й анімація
Can we talk about how amazing BERNARD HERMANN was??
1:35:00 Hitchcock giving tribute to Alma at the end of his career.
My favorite director hands down. Even his films from the 1930’s stand up. Everyone copied him too, in some way. Thanks for posting this
Grace Kelly was beguilingly beautiful and she could act.
One of the most fascinating people.
One of the best director of all time . Dial " B " for best ;D
*one of the best directors....
Hitchcock !... What a brilliant filmmaker , I couldn't pick a favorite they were all so darn good . One thing I will say is after I first watched Psycho , and I was about 16 at time I couldn't take a shower . I was terrified for several days . After about the 5th day My mother hit the roof , so back to normal again , thank God for our mothers . By the way I'm a woman writing on my husband's account, so as a young girl that movie really frightened me. For its time , Psycho was an extremely chilling movie to say the least .
28:55 The way Joseph Cotten says "Are they?" makes my blood run cold. Totally sociopathic.
the first time Teresa Wright made an impression on me ,was on Hitch's TV show later in her career. she plays a housewife, unglamorous, but I fell in love w/ her. thinking "who is this woman? .I love her." here we see her as a young KO. and still cute in elderly years. Hitch knew great beauty.
Bad pun but Teresa was so right for Charlee in Shadow and so right for Peggy in Best Years of Our Lives
Thank you so much for allowing us to see this incredible documentary today. Absolutely incredible.
Thanks for the post.
Hitch is one of the greatest artists ever!
may he and Alma rest in peace forever...bless him.
Before The Lady Vanishes, Hitchcock was a talented director. After that film, he became a legend.
Superb documentary about a genius who was exceptionally good at his profession. I wish "Hitch" could have seen this while alive.
This is the best Hitch docu I've ever seen. I'd watch his movies any day - I wouldn't have wanted to meet the guy, though.
Tippi Hedren confirming she didn’t really understand of know what she was doing, Teresa Wright confirming nigh on 60 years later she understood her role brilliantly and perfectly. Janet Leigh confirming 40 years later she knew exactly what her complex split-motivation character was doing, thinking, not thinking, what she was even wearing and why, at any split second, frame by frame. Even what was going through her mind when she was virtually dead. And she was only in half the movie!
How was Vertigo not a hit? I loved that movie.
Huge inspiration for me! Hitchcock’s achievements will continue to fascinate and lure to new generations of audiences.
Actual legend RIP🙏🌟💚👏🌟
Respect ✊
Award Him his due Hollywood
Watched a Hitchcock marathon on TCM 2 weeks ago...….magnificent!
23:38 RIP Norman Lloyd.
I still never take a shower without checking and locking all the doors and windows in the house. I saw this movie for the first time in the early sixties. Master of suspense. I wish they would have talked about his "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
The Man who knew too much, The 39 steps, and Young and Innocent with Nova Pilbeam. Great films!
The list of those snubbed by the Oscars (except for lifetime awards) reads like a Super-A List catalogue. Oscars are a terrible way of judging what films and people are masterpieces and maestros. Time is the far better judge and Hitchcock and his movies remain titans.
I love Hitchcock from USA Hollywood!!!
Five times nominated for an Academy Award Oscar for best director, but never winning. Hollywood recognized his talent, but couldn't warm up to his trademark, suspenseful filmmaking style.
Thank-you.
Now I want to binge on all of his films♥️
Great footage of great people...
At 1:24:10 there is no door being opened. The light alone creates the effect. That is amazing.
Hitchcock had a long memorable film directing career spanning five decades. His best work arguably came during the 1950's. Personally, "Psycho", 1960, is my most favorite Hitchcock film. The word "Hitchcockian" came to define the man and his distinctive film making style.
Excellent doc on an excellent subject!
One of my favourites was marnie
Norman Lloyd RIP.
I love Family Plot and this is the second Hitch documentary where it is ignored. Only a brief mention.
I love all of the movie,Alfred Hitchcock very good movie and wanderful all of the movie Hitchcock had a psychologist subject.🙏♥️👏😊
I saw several Hitchcock movies on Hbo max for the first time, and I must say I'm impressed.. Thank you for uploading this fabulous documentary
I love the closing moments... a collage of iconic and filmic images of faces and story moments settling on home films of his own and Alma's smiling as they traveled then a most insightful quote from Truffaut ending with a scene from Hitchcock Presents; a crib-bound, pajama-wearing Hitchcock stacks a final giant building block saying, in a jowly voice all his own that, "And now Daddies and Mommies I think the time has come to lamb out of here. Suppose you take this opportunity to escape... Until next time of course."
Then climbing close to the bars Hitchcock pulls out a water pistol and with serious playfulness, takes aim at both the camera and us the audience, pulls the trigger several times dousing us as if to say, "Gotcha!" and the serene musical score over closing credits.
Vertigo was a great movie
He only thanked his wife :)
Fabulous doc on a fabulous artist. Thanks for posting this.
A master showman, Hitchcock put a 3 ring circus of tension on roles of film.
Superb. Many thanks for sharing.
I love this documentary. Small note...when Tippi Hedren is talking about the attack scene and how traumatic that shoot was, please take note of what happened to her own daughter Melanie Griffith while filming Roar. A movie made by her and her husband starring the whole family. Melanie was clawed in the face my their lion requiring 150 stitches and facial reconstructive surgery.
Overall, a good documentary of a highly skilled, masterful film director, a master of suspense and a showman, Alfred Hitchcock.
Thank you for sharing this; I've been searching for more info on Mr. Hitchcock and this is certainly the most comprehensive on his filmography, but with thoughtful commentary by some great directors, it is instructional for a student of film and entertaining for fans like me.
Hitchcock was really successful in transferring our primal fears from the screen to our minds. Nothing much happens on the screen in Psycho, even the murder scene in the shower is tame compared to the gore generated in modern movies. The real power of Hitchcock lies in his covert messages. Author Paul Hyder realises this when he writes:
"The American writer, Ernest Hemingway, came up with a nice idea that he labelled ‘The Iceberg Theory’ by which he meant that the power of a story came not so much from what was written on the page but what was omitted. He honed this skill while working as a journalist for the Kansas City Star. Readers were interested in facts and not flowery descriptions of characters and events. Hemingway said somewhere that it was better to cut out the ornamentation when writing and throw away all the adjectives so that the reader is left with the bare facts and is forced to look beneath the nouns for the real power of the story. Wasn’t it, after all, the submerged part of the iceberg that sent the Titanic to the ocean floor? Hitchcock’s Psycho, then, is Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory on film. The force and power come from the movie’s subconscious undercurrents that run from the beginning of the film when the camera moves gently across the Phoenix skyline and descends into an anonymous hotel room to the final scene where a car is dragged from a swamp. The trajectory of the film therefore is downwards into the ‘mind’ of the movie so that all the fears and traumas that lay hidden may be brought to light by the psychotherapist at the end."
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Hitchcock must've been nearly the only reason to get out of the house and actually pay to see movies after television came out large in the early 50s. As the doc says at one point, Hitch's massive success on TV is the main reason why "Vertigo" exists: a movie that could never be shown on TV. Hollywood was only starting to figure this out: Wilder was told his movie "Some Like It Hot" (1959) would be "condemned" by the Catholic Church, and he didn't care. The year after that, other moralizers condemned "Psycho". But sex and violence were the only way that movies would survive. Wholesomeness was already free on tee-vee.
brilliance
Hitchcock movies wouldn't be nearly as good without the GENIUS of Bernard Herrmann.
Loved it!!!!!😀🎥🎬🍿
Sorry they took down the 100 'Passions,' 'Cheers,' 'Heroes/Villains,' 'Laughs' and 10th Anniversary 'Movies' but I do really hope there's a way to get around the copyright strike and reupload them :( Doesn't seem fair of AFI unless they have any intention of uploading it themselves, which seems unlikely
I would like to point out, that two of his overlooked and underrated films that were not mentioned are Stage FRIGHT, and I Confess. I have watched them both and they are very good.
What worked for Hitchcock was his mastery of suspense. What worked against him was his showmanship.
Great
Never in my life have I heard a sea gull make such noises as they do in this picture. They sound more like disgruntled cats!
Disgusting that one of the interviewees tries to take credit for the idea and intent of "Psycho".
I remember (1960s) seeing a creepy black-and-white movie on TV about a quiet, shy young worker (Sterling Hayden, I think) who sought a job at an orange farm in the 30s, when all the workers went north. He got it and was given lodging. There was something "off" about that young man, though. The little girl in the house had birds or squirrels in a cage outside - and suddenly - they began to die - one by one...O-M-G! Does it ring a bell? (There, I was sent to bed, when my mom saw the color on my face, so I didn´t get to watch it). Has anyone seen it? Could it be a "Hitch"?
The documakers choose what they "want" and muddle various facts.
But so did Hitchcock! You've just basically described movie-making.
Such as?
He was the best
You can see where everything came after Mr Hitchcock made those films. Pulp Fiction is basically a Hitch Film.
Hitcchcock a man that made his own image as famous as his films. He loved using blondes in front of the camera females to be shown on the big screen. I wonder how today's movie empire would have been without the imagination of a man such as hitcchcock.
Bring back the afi top 100 laughs videos
Sorry, the AFI took them down and gave me a copyright strike. :(
@@MikesVHSTreasures Did you own a video store to have these or just use columbia house back in the day?
I saw psycho,2 two years straight later 3 and 1 birds just seen it , great. Alfred
Why didn't they add the charge *Sabotage* (1936) ?
As much as Hitch was a brilliant filmmaker, I think it was Frenzy where I was so turned off by the violence towards women (the drawn-out strangling scene in particular) and seeing it as a pattern in his other films. It was a relief to see a lighter touch in Family Plot. Tippi Hedren has told her Me Too-worthy story of how Hitchcock was controlling her life offscreen as well as on. I guess he had his issues . . .
Also, Grace Kelly was seriously considering a return to the screen in Marnie, but for many reasons did not follow through. Somehow, I couldn't imagine this regal princess playing such a troubled character, but I wish she had returned to the screen in a different film.
Is this the one that was on the ENCORE CHANNEL in 1999?
46:45 insert the strange Hitchcock fall
?How?
No Oscar.its improved like allowing horrors,, fantasies to win Oscars now
This on dvd?
And now that's all we're doing.
Marvel movies utilize go get v the stay for the after credits, Psycho made watch from the beginning
I loved all of his movies, but, was never quite sure if I should take some of his more grisly, woman-as-victim, scenes as misogynism. Given the macabre genre, I still don't know.
This was pretty good, but unfortunately skips over a lot of his films and spends about 1/3 of the doc on a dozen talking heads saying the same stuff about the first time they saw "Psycho".
I think you could just say Hitch "altered" America's moviegoing habits, it's not really a 'revolution' is it?
The man never missed a meal.
He was heavy his entire life but he lost a great deal of weight over the years.
59:05 his daughter sure wasn't too
compassionate/sympathetic to her own father LOL
"You've got to make the villain the most charming, the most attractive person." Like Mrs. Danvers? Norman Bates? And The Trouble With Harry should never be included among his masterpieces. That said, this is a good bio doc because it doesn't go into all that silly psychobabble bushwa about the trauma of being locked in jail for a half-hour as a child (which I don't buy for a minute) by his father's request, his sexual obsession with his blonde stars, blah-blah.
The thing w/'Rebecca;" is that story not exactly like "Wuthering Heights," or is it just me? About "NXNW," narrator says "you wouldn't think [he] would be interested in that kind of tourist thing;" but aren't all European types fascinated w/American West? About "Psycho;" why not mention the strong shades of mamma's boy Ed Gein, who was then in the news?
I dont understand how hitchcock is any better than other directors of his day. I just saw a film called shield for murder, a 1950 cop drama where a cop goes off the edge and gets hunted down. It was an excellent movie that hitchcock didn't direct. There are many other top notch films hitchcock didnt direct.