Up Next On Film School: Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive!
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Is Alfred Hitchcock the best of them all? That's the question that watching the AFI's Top 100 films raised for us as we saw the British director at his peak.
We feel like in order to answer that question, we need to go allll the way back to the beginning--his beginning--and watch as many of his films as we can get our hands on. Several of Hitch's films, both feature-length and shorts, have been lost in the past hundred years, so it won't quite be ALL of his work, but we will be watching every single feature film that's available to the public. All 53 of them. Whew!
We're using several different lists, curated collections, and boxed sets to assemble our deep dive, and if you wish to follow along, here's the order we're watching them in, and where you can find them for yourself:
The Pleasure Garden (1926) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) The Ring (1927) Downhill (1927) The Farmer’s Wife (1928) Easy Virtue (1928) Champagne (1928) The Manxman (1929) Blackmail (1929) Juno and the Paycock (1930) Murder! (1930) Mary (1931) The Skin Game (1931) Rich and Strange (1931) Number Seventeen (1932) Waltzes from Vienna (1934) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) The 39 Steps (1935) Secret Agent (1936) Sabotage (1936) Young and Innocent (1937) The Lady Vanishes (1938) Jamaica Inn (1939) Rebecca (1940) Foreign Correspondent (1940) Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) Suspicion (1941) Saboteur (1942) Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Lifeboat (1944) Spellbound (1945) Notorious (1946) The Paradine Case (1947) Rope (1948) Under Capricorn (1949) Stage Fright (1950) Strangers on a Train (1951) I confess (1953) Dial M For Murder (1954) Rear Window (1954) To Catch A Thief (1954) The Trouble With Harry (1955) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) The Wrong Man (1956) Vertigo (1958) North by Northwest (1959) Psycho (1960) The Birds (1963) Marnie (1964) Torn Curtain (1966) Topaz (1969) Frenzy (1972) Family Plot (1976)We hope you follow along, and we hope you have a blast! :)