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I loved this movie it’s in my top 10 tens of all time. A classic film black and white. The acting and directing was great. Alfred was a great director enjoyed all his films.
Rating: 5 / 5
For all the great stuff they’ve loaded onto this SE, it still is a missed opportunity. Why no uncensored version? which played on German TV a few years ago.
As detailed on the Movie-censorship dot com website. Do a search under P for frame grabs of the missing footage and information.
Universal were informed about this by at least a handful of film industry folk, but chose to ignore the fact.
Rating: 1 / 5
It’s about time, Universal!! Warner released North by Northwest a year ago, so it’s good to finally see someone there knows the value of the large collection of Hitchcock classics in their library. Let’s see Rear Window, Vertigo, The Birds and The Trouble With Harry soon!
This same blu-ray is available in August in the U.K. (instead of October in the U.S.) I’m sure it will be region free, and around the same price, too.
Rating: 5 / 5
What more can say about one of the greatest films known to mankind. Psycho finally fifty years later gets the treatment it deserves. Since I was a little boy, buying a ticket to one movie and sneaking into see this movie because of its rating, solidifies itself as being the most contraversial and yet outstandingly perfect film that has ever graced the screen. We learn alot from this film, mostly because it takes us so deep into the darkest of places in the human psyche to really show its colors and even then you still are only given a glipse of what is on screen. The film stays with you for hours, days and even decades. To this day, each and every frame tingle my spine and raise the hairs on my neck. How dare you Mr. Van Sant for even attempting to remake perfection with Psycho (1998), however, all is forgiving we do have “MILK”. In the end you simply can’t touch this film, it is perfect in everyway and now it can be seen as it is supposed to be seen.
Norman Bates is one of the most interesting character I think to ever grace the screen. You see you want to know why this film is so good, try having a character that is not only a villian but a misunderstood innocent child at heart and a young man looking for love and companionship. Mr. Bates was a very disturbed individual and its sad how the rest plays out. We all take our own lessons from “Psycho” and as for Norman…well he wouldn’t even harm a fly!
The film itself is a ten in every category including top notch Cinematography, editing, acting, writing, sound and undoubtley its score.
Rating: 5 / 5
Not exactly a review, as just about everything has been said and written about this landmark, ground breaking and unpretentious movie, made very cheaply in resources and production values, with Hitchcock’s TV series crew, but very rich in creativity and impact. It changed the narrative conventions on suspense / horror films, on the way the heroine is handled, imposed a great marketing idea, forbidding audiences into the theater once the film had started, push the boundaries on what audiences was allowed to deal with, created a “black and white” masterpiece orchestral strings-only music soundtrack, etc, etc. And of course its legacy must be mentioned, with Brian De Palma paying hommage to Hitchcock in “Carrie”, “Sisters”, “Obsession” (almost a remake of “Vertigo”), “Body Double” and especially “Dressed to Kill” as the most obvious examples, not to mention many other film makers up to this day, learning about Hitchcock from their early years to film school to making movies filled with Hitchcock’s style. The point is, Hitchcock not only influenced, but he unintentionally set up a mark for film makers to come and some films got more and more creative and daring after that.
But despite all that and most importantly, considering Hitchcock’s signature, elegant visual style and camera angles, defending the concept that films and their stories must be told by images first, rather than dialogues or voice-over narratives, where are all the other Hitchcock films on blu-ray, when so many other classics have already made it into blu-ray? Surely Hitchcock deserves much more than just and only “North by Northwest” on blu-ray so far, with Psycho coming only in October (or August in the UK). Hitchcock paved the way on how films are made and created a lot of technical never before tried landmarks in film history, both technical and creative achievements, so why is it taking so long for the obvious release of many other of his classics on blu-ray? At least Vertigo, The Birds and Rear Window are the obvious choices that should have been already released, so this is more like a wake up call to the blu-ray market and the people behind it, to release more Hitchcock films on blu-ray, if the great Martin Scorsese isn’t already doing something about it.
Rating: 5 / 5