Hitchcock -- what's your favorite?

[Catshrink]

Rear Window just stared on TCM. What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?

[Tom_Foolery]

1. Vertigo

[Catshrink]

3. How about High Anxiety?

Mel Brooks did a pretty cool parody of it.

[Tom_Foolery]

10. Of Course...

Mel Brooks is a genius.

[NightTrain]

2. Rear Window

The climax of that film was excruciating to the point of being painful to watch. They didn't call Hitchcock the "master of suspense" for nothing!

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Rope

[sir_captain]

7. Definitely interesting

can't say it's my favorite, and i think it's one case where the audience would have been better off not knowing so much (ie, the very first scene) but as a technical exercise, it's really amazing, and well worth seeing. i still get a chuckle every time he zooms into someone's back, as i imagine the crew scurrying around trying to move furniture out of the way for the camera to move around.

[libbygurl]

9. "Rope" was nearly unbearable to watch - has the distinction of being...

...perhaps the only movie until then that was shot in just one (1) loooooong take. At most, two or three, I think.

Very interesting experience, that.

[NightTrain]

15. At least, it had that distinction until last year and "The Russian Ark."

That one also was shot in one long, continuous take.

[libbygurl]

19. Yes, which is why I'm of two minds about seeing "Russian Ark." Was...

...very uncomfortable, antsy with "Rope", but curiosity about RA might just get the better of me.

[sir_captain]

26. it was in about 4 takes

hitch zoomed into the back of a dark colored suit each time he needed to switch film reels

[sir_captain]

5. Vertigo as well

it's in my top 5 movies of all time, easily. the restored print is magnificent. i think Rear Window comes in next, followed by The Lady Vanishes

[Tom_Foolery]

6. The Birds

[Wickerman]

22. My daughter when nine loved "horror" movies

Once, I suggested the Birds. She said, "Nah, lets get soemthing 'really' scary, like a Jason movie. The Birds is old, it can't be as scary..." She thought it soulnded boring, the concept too simple, etc...

:0

I had the cash so I won. She still says its the scariest thing she has ever seen. And, quite the film critic, she really appreciated the way the film was put together.

[terrya]

8. North by Northwest.

Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint, a great story, the scene with the cropdusting plane and the one on Mt. Rushmore...and a great Bernard Herrman score. The best, IMO.

Terry

[Tom_Foolery]

11. Excellent Choice

There are too many! My brain is whirling!!

[Squistion]

12. North by Northwest

Flawless casting, funny, suspenseful - love the crop dusting scene.

[sally343434]

13. North by Northwest

Any Hitchcock movie can be accurately called a "masterpiece" so it is hard to pick a favorite because they are all great.

But personally, I think North by Northwest is the best movie ever made.

[jus_the_facts]

14. Rebecca.....

......Mrs. Danvers is one scary ol'broad!! :scared:

[smirkymonkey]

16. To Catch a Thief...

Rear Window, Notorious and Spellbound are tops on my list.

[stopbush]

17. To Catch a Thief n/t

[King_Crimson]

18. Psycho...

without a doubt! The shower scene...horrifying!!!!:scared:

[Supormom]

20. The Rear Window

[NewHampshireDem]

21. From a technical perspective ...

It has to be "Rear Window."

From an entertainment perspective, "The Man Who Knew Too Much."

Of course, Psycho still creeps me out.

Damn, must I choose? :)

[elperromagico]

23. North by Northwest.

Most Hitchcock films start slow and build to a climax, often making the first hour or so difficult to sit through, but North by Northwest starts off exciting and doesn't let up until the very end.

[pippin]

24. Rear Window and To Catch a Thief

Grace Kelly was super in both!

[lucidmadman]

25. VERTIGO....

...SHADOW OF A DOUBT, THE BIRDS (think Surrealism), MARNIE. It just goes on and on and on.

Lang, Hitchcock, Bunuel, Polanski...

The last film I saw in a theater that I really liked was MEMENTO...

[Kahuna]

27. "Notorious" with the devine acting of Ms. Ingrid Bergman...

I wouldn't get made because Cary Grant was in the movie either. :7

[Raenelle]

32. Notorious. Love Grant, Bergman and Raines.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

28. Notorious, To Catch a Thief, Rear Window, North by Northwest

The Man Who Knew Too Much.

[RebelOne]

29. I vpte for Psycho

Best ever Hitchcock film

[Zomby Woof]

30. Vertigo

Stewart's best role. Hitchcock casting against type proved GENIUS. "Garsh and Golly! I am psycho!" (Or so I imagine Jimmy saying) :-)

[Doctor_J]

31. Frenzy

that is a SCAAAAARY movie. In the 60's he did Psycho and then The Birds and then Frenzy, which I thought were his 3 scariest.

[dae]

33. # 1. North by Northwest; 2. Pyscho; 3. The Man Who New To Much..

(1934)version, and many others.:)

[sistersofmercy]

34. Definitely, Rear Window n/t