The Alfred Hitchcock Project
During the pandemic, I began my Alfred Hitchcock project, an attempt to write about every feature film Hitchcock directed. My idea was to record my thoughts after watching each picture, relying on my reactions with only a minimum of research. (Yet some of these movies I have presented for audiences after conducting more intense study.)
When the world more or less returned to normal, the project slowed, then halted. I intend to continue this exploration until I finish.
This page will be something of a placeholder. (Some of these posts originally appeared on my website. In those cases, posts will be modified.) As I write about each film, I will link to it here. I hope you’ll join me.
One word of warning: Many Hitchcock fans seem uninterested in watching the director’s silent features, preferring to view only the sound films. Those doing so are depriving themselves of some very good (and in some cases exceptional) experiences. I urge you not to neglect these silent films.
The first installment should be up later today.
The Pleasure Garden (1925)
The Mountain Eagle (1926)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Downhill (1927)
Easy Virtue (1927)
The Ring (1927)
The Farmer’s Wife (1928)
Champagne (1928)
The Manxman (1929)
Juno and the Paycock (1930)
Murder! (1930) and Mary (1931)
The Skin Game (1931)
Rich and Strange (1932)
Number Seventeen (1932)
Waltzes from Vienna (1933)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935)
The Secret Agent (1936)
Sabotage (1936)
Young and Innocent (1937)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Rebecca (1940)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
Saboteur (1942)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Lifeboat (1943)
Spellbound (1945)
Notorious (1946)
The Paradine Case (1947)
Rope (1947)
Under Capricorn (1949)
Stage Fright (1950)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
I Confess (1952)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
The Trouble with Harry (1956)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955)
The Wrong Man (1957)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
Marnie (1964)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Topaz (1969)
Frenzy (1972)
Family Plot (1976)