Alfred Hitchcock was and always will be "The Master " "A Genius " !!! He was a TRUE ARTIST with such magical talent as he went to the extremes in every single film he made with such expression .. As he loved to take the audiences for such a ride that they would not know what hit them . !!! His madness absolutely Makes me Melt !
Psycho is still my favorite. Not just for the suspense or the shots, but for every magnificent piece of it. Especially the conversation over sandwiches between Norman Bates and Marion Crane. "We're all in cages. And some of us step into them willingly" or something to that effect.
Great upload and just for the record can I say how fantastic Tippi Hedren is? She is bright, quick, extraordinarily charismatic and very, very beautiful. I thought she was like a kind of angel (albeit of extermination) in "The Birds" and heartbreakingly vulnerable in "Marnie". She was a special presence in both of these contrasting films; and despite the tragic problems which developed in her relationship with Hitchcock, she delivers marvellously and it is a pity this could not have continued.
And I'd like to add that I adore both films. "The Birds" - for me, is a modernist masterpiece. It reverts to silence, to using colour imagery, to the artful mechanics of cutting film and a sense of a dream. Robin Wood, Camille Paglia and the wonderful (late) Roger Ebert were absolutely on the mark in understanding it. The plot and the conventions of film are almost irrelevant - it is Hitchcock's most overtly experimental film - and this from a genius in the first place.
Great conclusion building on Pt 1. Missed the screenwriter for Vertigo, though Samuel Taylor is featured talking more generally in the earlier episode. But he does on Hitchock's Masterpiece box set which is THE collection as most of the films featured have excellent 1 hour docos accompanying all the later classics it includes. Vertigo which was voted no 1 film of all time by the many critics asked by the British Film Institute's great Sight and Sound magazine. Yeah it took them half a century to catch up (it toppled Citizen Kane).
What's truly amazing about his later pictures is how intensely personal they were...and extremely twisted! Sexual desire played a huge part in his films, it did for years, but the raping a newlywed in Marnie and not being able to consummate a relationship in Vertigo unless the woman looked like a dead lover is pretty sick. It's amazing he had major stars in Vertigo making that film. I'm not complaining, on the contrary I find his personal obsessions to be part of his genius.
No one who loves Cinema can doubt his greatness, nor fail to have enjoyed many happy hours watching his movies, but I still find him over-rated, the ultimate "auteur", a director who created camera set-ups almost to say "look how clever I am!" Personally a greater director, one who could work successfully in just about every genre, would be someone like Michael Curtiz. But that's just me !
51:23 "With three flops in a row..." The Birds was NOT a flop. Box office was $11 million for a budget of $3 million. Marnie was a modest success, making $7 million from the same budget. Torn Curtain did even better, raking in $13 million with yet again the same budget. By the yardstick of Psycho's $50 million take, of course these films weren't smashes. But they certainly weren't "flops." Neither were Frenzy or Family Plot, which had similar profit margins. They actually did BETTER than some of Hitchcock's legendary successes of the 1950's like North by Northwest and To Catch A Thief. Topaz was really the only financial flop of Hitchcock's final period, cost $6 million and raking in $6 million.
Hitchcock was obsessed with the image of a woman in his memory. That image carried his creative process through many filmmaking processes, perhaps until his death.
Good for Tippi, besting a powerful predator AND setting blame where blame was due! "I did it. It was my fault.... NO! It was *his." His weight was the weapon against him that HE forced on her.
The Birds flopped?... I thought it was a success... I'm very confused. I used to hear that Vertigo "failed," now I mostly hear it did well. I guess people fail to specify whether they mean critically, commercially, or "failing" in the sense that the film wasn't a blockbuster...
Yes, and can we blame her? Knowing her career was so much centered, years and decades later, on this Jekyll-&-Hyde power figure? Brava🎉 bravissima🤩, Tippi !!
@@arnesahlen2704 It sounds like you've assumed that Hedren's version of events is the absolute, indisputable truth when there isn't a single other person who worked with Hitchcock during the course of his career of over 50 years who has made a similar accusation against him...
Thanks for the upload. I saw the 2012 Hitchcock film in hopes to see him come to life. But after watching this and listening to the NPR fact check on the film, I realized the majority of the film's script was fabricated garbage. Great acting, though!
It*s so disgusting how condescending Hitchcock is talking to Tippi Hedren. I love his movies and I admire him as an artist. But I wouldn't have liked to work with him as an actress.
Richard Sangeleer It looks as though you’d written that she had worked at McDonald’s right before she was hired as a chef, somewhere at a fancy restaurant ! She « cooked » beautifully, but still ... she was hurt (which may not matter at all, here, in fact : “actors = cattle”, after all).
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Alfred Hitchcock was and always will be "The Master " "A Genius " !!! He was a TRUE ARTIST with such magical talent as he went to the extremes in every single film he made with such expression .. As he loved to take the audiences for such a ride that they would not know what hit them . !!! His madness absolutely Makes me Melt !
Psycho is still my favorite. Not just for the suspense or the shots, but for every magnificent piece of it. Especially the conversation over sandwiches between Norman Bates and Marion Crane. "We're all in cages. And some of us step into them willingly" or something to that effect.
dean b my favourite scene and movie too ❤️
Great upload and just for the record can I say how fantastic Tippi Hedren is? She is bright, quick, extraordinarily charismatic and very, very beautiful. I thought she was like a kind of angel (albeit of extermination) in "The Birds" and heartbreakingly vulnerable in "Marnie". She was a special presence in both of these contrasting films; and despite the tragic problems which developed in her relationship with Hitchcock, she delivers marvellously and it is a pity this could not have continued.
Thanks for posting this very interesting documentary about a great director.
Thank you for uploading this documentary!
And I'd like to add that I adore both films. "The Birds" - for me, is a modernist masterpiece. It reverts to silence, to using colour imagery, to the artful mechanics of cutting film and a sense of a dream. Robin Wood, Camille Paglia and the wonderful (late) Roger Ebert were absolutely on the mark in understanding it. The plot and the conventions of film are almost irrelevant - it is Hitchcock's most overtly experimental film - and this from a genius in the first place.
It's amazing
24:15 I love the contemptuous way Norman Lloyd says 'lion'!!
Thank you for this fine upload.
This documentary I saw it with my father . Thankls for sharing
Great conclusion building on Pt 1. Missed the screenwriter for Vertigo, though Samuel Taylor is featured talking more generally in the earlier episode. But he does on Hitchock's Masterpiece box set which is THE collection as most of the films featured have excellent 1 hour docos accompanying all the later classics it includes. Vertigo which was voted no 1 film of all time by the many critics asked by the British Film Institute's great Sight and Sound magazine. Yeah it took them half a century to catch up (it toppled Citizen Kane).
What's truly amazing about his later pictures is how intensely personal they were...and extremely twisted! Sexual desire played a huge part in his films, it did for years, but the raping a newlywed in Marnie and not being able to consummate a relationship in Vertigo unless the woman looked like a dead lover is pretty sick. It's amazing he had major stars in Vertigo making that film. I'm not complaining, on the contrary I find his personal obsessions to be part of his genius.
No one who loves Cinema can doubt his greatness, nor fail to have enjoyed many happy hours watching his movies, but I still find him over-rated, the ultimate "auteur", a director who created camera set-ups almost to say "look how clever I am!" Personally a greater director, one who could work successfully in just about every genre, would be someone like Michael Curtiz. But that's just me !
What about his last film, Family Plot? Great movie. And they didn't even mention Topaz,which I have to say wasn't good at all.
51:23 "With three flops in a row..." The Birds was NOT a flop. Box office was $11 million for a budget of $3 million. Marnie was a modest success, making $7 million from the same budget. Torn Curtain did even better, raking in $13 million with yet again the same budget. By the yardstick of Psycho's $50 million take, of course these films weren't smashes. But they certainly weren't "flops." Neither were Frenzy or Family Plot, which had similar profit margins. They actually did BETTER than some of Hitchcock's legendary successes of the 1950's like North by Northwest and To Catch A Thief. Topaz was really the only financial flop of Hitchcock's final period, cost $6 million and raking in $6 million.
These documentaries have to sensationalise everything.
I wonder how tippi would have handled Kubric.
Hitchcock was obsessed with the image of a woman in his memory. That image carried his creative process through many filmmaking processes, perhaps until his death.
yes
Good for Tippi, besting a powerful predator AND setting blame where blame was due! "I did it. It was my fault.... NO! It was *his." His weight was the weapon against him that HE forced on her.
The Birds flopped?... I thought it was a success... I'm very confused. I used to hear that Vertigo "failed," now I mostly hear it did well. I guess people fail to specify whether they mean critically, commercially, or "failing" in the sense that the film wasn't a blockbuster...
This script is nonsensical in places. They have an agenda to peddle, in opposition to any actual data from the period like box office and reviews.
Do you ave the first episode? Is there more than 2?
Link is in the dbox :)
C'mon. You've Earned My Respect. accurate wistful What's your opinion about 1!
50:55 - 51:08 It's obvious Hedren had rehearsed that in the mirror countless times.
Yes, and can we blame her? Knowing her career was so much centered, years and decades later, on this Jekyll-&-Hyde power figure? Brava🎉 bravissima🤩, Tippi !!
@@arnesahlen2704 It sounds like you've assumed that Hedren's version of events is the absolute, indisputable truth when there isn't a single other person who worked with Hitchcock during the course of his career of over 50 years who has made a similar accusation against him...
Thanks for the upload. I saw the 2012 Hitchcock film in hopes to see him come to life. But after watching this and listening to the NPR fact check on the film, I realized the majority of the film's script was fabricated garbage. Great acting, though!
24 hours in the city, as told from the perspective as food - Sounds like a Pixar film .
Sounds a little bit like "Do The Right Thing!"
It*s so disgusting how condescending Hitchcock is talking to Tippi Hedren. I love his movies and I admire him as an artist. But I wouldn't have liked to work with him as an actress.
Tippi Hedren had acted in commercials before involving herself w/Hitchcock...
Richard Sangeleer It looks as though you’d written that she had worked at McDonald’s right before she was hired as a chef, somewhere at a fancy restaurant !
She « cooked » beautifully, but still ... she was hurt (which may not matter at all, here, in fact : “actors = cattle”, after all).
God, I hate the snooty, ominous tone of these '90s BBC documentaries.