hitchcock filmography

[Benjamin Grimm]

Watched Dial M For Murder for the first time yesterday. Very enjoyable.

[Edgy MD]

OK, first of all, that's six paragraphs with not one citation from the article.

Seond of all, "the writer assumes Hitchcock was living in 2010" and the author holds Hitchcock to 2010 standards are two different statements. One of them is completely untenable.

Third, presenting a charge that is pointless to deny, because the perpetrators are always blind to themselves, is a cheap rhetorical trick that even a Hitchock character would recognize and scoff at.

Lastly, if you read the article, you'd see it was written in 1990, not in 2010, so the party most guilty of presentism appears to be you, though I'll resist the temptation to claim that it's pointless to deny it.

[Frayed Knot]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Watched Dial M For Murder for the first time yesterday. Very enjoyable.

I've probably seen that one more times than any other Hitchcock movie just because it seems to come around more often.
Always loved the plot that tennis dude springs on his unsuspecting ex-classmate that sets the whole thing up. It's just so positively evil.

[Vic Sage]

did you see it in 3D?

i did, at a rep house in NYC, like 20 years ago. It gave me a headache.

[Benjamin Grimm]

No. I just learned about the 3D version today when reading the Wikipedia article.

I did see it in HD, though.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I owned this Robin Wood Hitchcock book which I plowed through repeatedly, even though the critical reviews were way over my eight year old head. But I managed to memorize the titles of every single Hitch movie. In chronological order. Backwards too.

I just wanted to say that as much as I love watching Hitchcock's films, I probably enjoy reading Robin Wood even more.

Oh, and I just gave a presentation last week during which I argued (with only a little tongue-in-cheek) that Robert Walker's character in Strangers on a Train was influenced by Pepe le Pew.