Tag: The Birds
My Name is Alfred Hitchcock (2024)
Safe to say that no filmmaker in the history of the medium had a better understanding of his audience than Sir Alfred Hitchcock. Hitch had us by the throat. He famously said that he played his audience like a piano, and mercifully, he played tunes worth listening to. His films were approachable perhaps in the […]
The Birds (1963)
If you follow the chronology of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, you can see that he did his best work in the 40s and 50s after he came to America. That’s an argument that you could probably debate for weeks, but I have a feeling that it would end up owing the general consensus. Just look at […]