Cinema is twenty-four pictures per second with synchronized sound, and somehow it builds vast universes inside our imaginations.
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Rear Window (1954)
Tag: Alfred Hitchcock
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Suspicion (1941)
Suspicion is Hitchcock playing peekaboo.
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To Catch a Thief (1955)
Hitchcock has three filmmaking gears: coasting, locked-in, and getting weird.
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Psycho (1960)
In his famous essay “An Introduction to the American Horror Film,” critic Robin Wood defined the genre
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Rope (1948)
Rope is a bit of an odd duck in the Alfred Hitchcock canon, both transitional and anomalous.
Jamaica Inn is a fairly early Hitchcock about an English ship-looting criminal conspiracy.
I’m not quite calibrated on my Hitchcock yet, especially early-ish Hitchcock, but I was anticipating a bit more mystery than is delivered. I also found the leads a hair stuffy.
But this was still an excellent classic Hollywood thriller, filled with some dazzling Gothic sets and suitably creepy manor vibe. Mrs. Danvers lights up the screen whenever she’s on.
I think I might need to rewatch this one in a couple years.