What Are Your Favorite Hitchcock Films?

Rear window.


Rebecca, foreign correspondent,notorious, strangers on a train, and vertigo could be my number one on a different day though

 

It's damn hard to pick just one, but if forced to I guess I'd say Rear Window.

 

Wow. It is hard to pick one favorite. Shadow of a Doubt might be my favorite, though.

 

Psycho or The Birds. Vertigo bores me. It's clever but almost too clever. Well, made though. For pure nasty thrills, I also love Frenzy.

 

FRENZY is just hilarious, too. I love the script by Anthony Shaffer, who wrote the brilliant SLEUTH (both the play and film adaptation). He was the twin brother of the similarly
gifted dramatist Peter Shaffer (AMADEUS and EQUUS)

 

The Birds

 

Strangers on a Train, is by far my favorite. Thrilling and a bit weird...

 

Rear Window

 

Rebecca is a great movie! Somewhat surprisingly, it's the only Hitchcock directed movie to win an Oscar for best picture.

 

Good stuff! I love Hitchcock but you are crazy about under Capricorn! That just dragged and didn't work for me. I love Cotten and Ingrid but found it very dull

 

I like Psycho and Frenzy the most.

 

39 Steps
Shadow of a Doubt
Strangers on a Train
Rear Window
Vertigo

 

1. Vertigo
2. Rear Window
3. North by Northwest

 

I Confess
The Man That Knew Too Much
North By Northwest
Psycho
Rear Window
Suspicion
Vertigo
The Wrong Man
The Birds
.

 

The penultimate Frenzy (1972) is the only Hitchcock film I love. I like most of his other work but too often I see a lot of fault to really dig it up. Just too much glamour and fluff in the 1950's Hollywood stuff (I know some people love that). Or sometimes I find just one great violent scene with tedium before and after (Psycho, Torn Curtain, Birds). But he was one of the great filmmakers unquestionably.

 

Yes! I saw it around 1980 with my Mom. Very nice in 3D, technique used very effectively (and not OVERused).

EDIT: Wow, I just replied to a post from over 12 years ago!

 

So many great films, but these are (probably) my very favourite:

Lady Vanishes
Saboteur
North By Northwest
Vertigo
Dial M For Murder
Rope
Rear Window
39 Steps

 

Rear Window
Rope
The Birds

I love Hitchcock movies !!

 

I love showing Rear Window to people who haven't seen it. Sucks them right in, and Grace Kelly is luminous.

North By Northwest is a hell of a lot of fun even though it doesn't make much sense sometimes (who cares).

Psycho is brilliant and still unsettling today.

The Lady Vanishes is one I find fascinating in so many ways, not least of which is how it makes a tonal shift about 20 minutes in. You could be forgiven for thinking it's a breezy romantic comedy during its first half hour. Hitchcock did something similar but far more severe in Psycho, where you think you're watching one story and then suddenly you're watching another one entirely.

Even though it's creaky, I have a soft spot for Young and Innocent because....NOVA PILBEAM.

 

Rear Window is his classic.
Maybe because I have a telescope.

 

Tough one-_Rear Window and Vertigo are so close, but I give the edge to Vertigo.
Then Psycho, Birdees, Notorious, Man Who Knew 2

 

We dragged my wife's 16 year old godchild to it. he was bored silly.
We thought, like you, he'd be sucked in.

 

Some people don't take to things when we think they will. I loved Rear Window the first time I saw it when I was 14, but it took me years to warm to A Clockwork Orange, which I still don't love, but which I appreciate for a number of reasons (and I'm a Kubrick fan). Maybe he'll come to like it later?

 

we're hoping............maybe he expected too much based on what we had said