Of course Vertigo is a very weird movie that makes very little sense. But it is all about the dream logic and Hitch leaving all his creepy obsessions up on the screen.
It is decidedly a movie you do NOT want to see with a bunch of psych majors, I can say. Even I was mocking it, and I love it, but as a pschological profile, I think it says more about Hitch than any of the characters in the movie.
Not so surprisingly, aside from my additional love of PSYCHO and NOTORIOUS, Hec's favorites are mine for Sir Alfred.
Favorite Hitchcocks:
1.
Rear Window
2.
The Lady Vanishes
3.
Suspicion
4.
Strangers on a Train
5.
Notorious
6.
The 39 Steps
7.
Rebecca
8.
Psycho
9.
To Catch a Thief
10.
North by Northwest
I really loved Fitzcarraldo when I saw it, but I was 20 or so and not as discerning as I am now. Aguirre is an incredible movie, though. The Herzog/Kinski remake of Nosferatu isn't bad, either, but it doesn't hold a candle to the original.
Where's the
Birds
love? A gas station blows up!
I do love
The Birds.
In fact, I was very tempted to drive up to Bodega Bay this weekend.
I almost put it tied for 10, if only for the green dress. But the dialogue and acting are just so bad I think it would have to go in a special "so bad it's good" category.
I feel like it's underrated, but I don't remember much about the dialogue and acting. I just like the whole mood of it, the birds everywhere being menacing by
virtue of being birds.
I will amend to note that I also really like the 39 Steps (particularly the rawther kinky handcuff scene) and Notorious.
I just like the whole mood of it, the birds everywhere being menacing by virtue of being birds.
Completely tangential and off topic, but P-C, have you seen any of the footage from the Planet Earth miniseries showing megaflocks of millions of birds moving across the African plain? The narration noted that these megaflocks can take up to six hours to pass.
The narration noted that these megaflocks can take up to six hours to pass.
Passenger pigeon flocks would sometimes take two days (I think) to pass over.
Now they're all gone.
Heh. Now that you mention it, I may be understating the narration in my memory. These flocks were huge. Their motion was fascinating to watch.
And yeah, it made me think of the passenger pigeon.
