My Favorite Collection: Rear Window (10/10)

“Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.”
     

Rear Window was my first Hitchcock film, and what a lasting impression it has had on me ever since. I remember watching scenes for it in a film course I was taking in college and I enjoyed it so much that I immediately decided to see it in its entirety. Alfred Hitchcock has been one of my favorite

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Dial M for Murder (9/10): Hitchcock delivers a top notch mystery in his most wordy film

“I'm afraid my murders would be something like my bridge: I'd make some stupid mistake and never realize it until I found everybody was looking at me.”


Hitchcock loved to innovate and experiment with his films and some might argue that Dial M for Murder is his most straightforward mystery movie. But what we forget is that Hitchcock made this film in 3-D which explains why there are so many

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Rope (8/10): More proof of Hitchcock's innovative genius.

“I've always wished for more artistic talent. Well, murder can be an art, too. The power to kill can be just as satisfying as the power to create.”



With the aftermaths of the effects of World War II, Patrick Hamilton’s play seemed like the perfect choice for Alfred Hitchcock’s next film. A plot which centers on two highly intellectual men that decide to commit the perfect murder. The victim

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Strangers on a Train (8/10): Could've been Hitchcock's best if the film lived up to that brilliant first half

“I have the perfect weapon right here: these two hands.”


In my opinion, Hitchcock’s Golden Age was definitely the 50’s when he released some of his most beloved classic films: Rear Window, North by Northwest, and Vertigo. I’d include Psycho on that list as well which was released in 1960. But in 1951, the Master of Suspense directed a wonderful thriller which could’ve very well been

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Notorious (7/10): Hitchcock's romantic spy thriller in Rio.

“You could have stopped me with one word, but no, you wouldn't. You threw me at him!”


Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 classic romantic spy thriller has tried to be imitated many times by lesser films over the decades, but nearly 70 years later its style and fabulous camerawork continues to leave its mark on audiences everywhere. The master of suspense lived up to his name once again with a slightly

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