![]() ![]() For viewers more familiar with his American work of the 1940s and 1950s, this series is a chance to discover the delights of the British Hitchcock. Yet the Old Master moniker seems a touch too reverential for a director who often tweaked authority with comedy, and whose famous technical control gave form to uncontrollable emotions.īorn not long after cinema itself, Hitchcock (1899–1980) got his start in England as a titles designer for silent pictures by the time he decamped for Hollywood in 1939, he was Britain's most acclaimed director. ![]() In the 2012 edition of the influential Sight and Sound critics' poll, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo replaced Orson Welles's Citizen Kane as the “greatest film of all time.” It was just the latest evidence of Hitchcock's elevation in the cinephile canon, where he has become not a genre-bound Master of Suspense but, in Ian Christie's words, “ the Old Master.” A notion of mastery has long been central to the reputation of this filmmaker who declared that every film should “exist pictorially in the director's mind from beginning to end” before shooting begins. “Hitchcock is one of the greatest inventors of form in the history of cinema.”-Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol ![]()
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