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My favourite Hitchcock: Rope
A master of suspense, Hitchcock delights in toying with his audience, repelling and luring his viewers into the scene of a crime – and nowhere more audaciously than in RopeRope isn't Hitchcock's best...
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My favourite Hitchcock: The Lodger
This electrifying early feature starring an ambiguously appealing Ivor Novello shows the young director marshalling a new medium's visual powerThe Lodger, the silent film that Hitchcock directed in...
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My favourite Hitchcock: The Birds
Here is a film that provides no answers and no escape. Chaos reigns from top to tail. Might this be the essential Hitchcock?The crows alight, one by one, in the schoolyard above Bodega Bay. They are...
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My favourite Hitchcock: Strangers on a Train
Hitchcock's study of the guilt that taints the human condition is just one cinematic masterstroke after anotherThe master of suspense did not care whodunnit. For Hitch, the question was all but...
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My favourite Hitchcock: North by Northwest
Cary Grant, Saul Bass's titles, Bernard Hermann's score, that all-conquering crop-dusting scene. Why is it that Hitchcock's biggest crowd-pleaser makes critics sniffy?Life, most of the time, is matter...
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My favourite Hitchcock: Dial M for Murder
With its romping plot and glorious villain, it's surprising that this tale of a bungled killing is one the director all but disownedAccording to Hitchcock, his filmography contained only a few...
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My favourite Hitchcock: Rebecca
The director had to remove the one murder that takes place in Daphne du Maurier's story – but still created one of his creepiest, most oppressive films"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...
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My Favourite Hitchcock: I Confess
A forgotten albeit flawed masterpiece, this thriller about a priest accused of murder – bound to keep secret the confession made to him by the real killer – smoulders gloriouslyOn the surface, it looks...
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My favourite Hitchcock: Vertigo
The trouble with being the best movie of all time is that Vertigo is now an easy target for criticism. But this strange, frustrating story of a haunted pervert will always evade definitionHypnotised...
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My favourite Hitchcock: Marnie
As the My Favourite Hitchcock series continues, we asked members of the guardian.co.uk/film community to tell us about their preferred films from the master of suspense. Today's contribution is from...
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My favourite Hitchcock: Under Capricorn
As the My Favourite Hitchcock series continues, we asked members of the guardian.co.uk/film community to tell us about their preferred films from the master of suspense. Today's contribution is from...
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My favourite Hitchcock: Shadow of a Doubt
As the My favourite Hitchcock series continues, we asked members of the guardian.co.uk/film community to tell us about their preferred films from the master of suspense. Today's contribution is from...
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My favourite Hitchcock: Lifeboat
As the My favourite Hitchcock series continues, we asked members of the guardian.co.uk/film community to tell us about their preferred films from the master of suspense. Today's contribution is from...
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My favourite Hitchcock: Frenzy
We asked members of the guardian.co.uk/film community to tell us about their preferred films from the master of suspense. Today's contribution is from Nia Jones, a freelance writerRon Goodwin's musical...
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My favourite Hitchcock: Foreign Correspondent
Hitchcock's breathless tale of an American pressman in a Europe on the brink of war was labelled a 'masterpiece of propaganda' by Josef GoebbelsIt's always the same when you dilly dally in getting up...
View ArticleMy favourite Hitchcock film: The Birds by Geoff Dyer
A film 'replete with the visual and linguistic trappings of imprisonment' is let down by its creaky special effectsThe Birds starts out in a pet shop with birds in their cages; it ends with humans...
View ArticleMy favourite Hitchcock: Psycho
At 61, Alfred Hitchcock was reaching what many saw as the end of an illustrious career. Then he took a quantum leap to further greatness with a low-budget, black-and-white shocker"I declare!""I don't!...
View ArticleMy favourite Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes
On top of a mesmerising plot, perfect casting and the greatest comic duo in British cinema, this comedy thriller derives special urgency from the troubled times in which it was madeHitchcock and...
View ArticleMy favourite Hitchcock: Rear Window
Hitchcock made a career out of indulging our voyeuristic tendencies, and he never excited them more skilfully, or with more gleeful self-awareness, than in Rear WindowThe first time I watched Rear...
View ArticleMy Favourite Hitchcock: The 39 Steps
Before Psycho and North by Northwest, Hitchcock's 1935 thriller The 39 Steps was serving up some of cinema's most seminal moments. Here is a handful of highlights from the filmAlfred Hitchcock's...
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