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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, many of which are still widely watched and studied today. Known as the "Master of Suspense", Hitchcock became as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, h…
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“s impacted: an actress (Lana Turner), a writer (Dick Powell) and a director (Barry Sullivan). Insightful and liberally sprinkled with characters modeled after various Hollywood royalty from David O. Selznick to Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, witty, with one of Turner”
“actors should be treated like cattle”
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“You have to clearly spell it out in big letters:”
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“In truth, you might almost say that The Lodger was my first picture.”
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“usually among the four or five at the top of the class”
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Describing Hedren's performance as "one of the greatest in the history of cinema", Richard Brody called the film a "story of sexual violence" inflicted on the character played by Hedren: "The film is, to put it simply, s
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Hitchcock's psychological thriller Vertigo, starring Stewart, displaced Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941) as the British Film Institute's greatest film ever made based on its world-wide poll of hundreds of film critics
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Total Film ranked Hitchcock at No
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MovieMaker named him the most influential director of all time, and a 2007 The Daily Telegraph critics' poll ranked him Britain's greatest director
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Hitchcock was ranked second in the critics' top ten poll and fifth in the directors' top ten poll in the list of "The Greatest Directors of All Time" compiled by Sight & Sound
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Released album “The 39 Steps”.
Released album “Spell Bound”.
A series of 17 mosaics of Hitchcock's life and work, which are located in Leytonstone tube station in the London Underground, was commissioned by the London Borough of Waltham Forest
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Released album “Alfred Hitchcock Presents… Signatures in Suspense”.
Entertainment Weekly ranked Hitchcock at No
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The Sight & Sound Critics' Poll ranked Hitchcock at No
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Pat Hitchcock donated her father's papers to the academy's Margaret Herrick Library
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Reville became her husband's closest collaborator; Charles Champlin wrote in 1982: "The Hitchcock touch had four hands, and two were Alma's." When Hitchcock accepted the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979, he said that he wanted to mention "four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation and encouragement, and constant collaboration.
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Died 1980-04-29.
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“Moją piętą achillesową jest pamięć o pieniądzach, za które jestem odpowiedzialny.”
“Nie jestem bynajmniej realistą. Pociąga mnie fantastyka. Widzę rzeczy szerzej niż w życiu.”
“I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them. (ang.)”
“Interesuję się a priori bardzo mało historią, którą opowiadam, interesuje mnie wyłącznie sposób opowiadania, tylko to mnie pociąga.”
“Gdybym zrobił musical, cała publiczność czekałaby, kiedy jedna z tancerek padnie w końcu trupem.”
“Filmuj morderstwa tak jak sceny miłosne, a sceny miłosne – tak jak morderstwa.”
“One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.”
“Film wtedy jest dobry, gdy jest wart pieniędzy za kolację w restauracji, dwa bilety do kina i opiekunkę do dziecka.”
“Film to życie, z którego wymazano plamy nudy.”
“Film jest zły wtedy, jeśli ktokolwiek z publiczności chociaż na chwilę może odwrócić oczy od ekranu.”
“Dramat filmowy jest to kawałek życia, z którego wycięto nudne partie.”
“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. (ang.)”
“(…) diabeł jest w każdym z nas.”
“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”
“Detektyw stawia diagnozę. Jego praca polega na studiowaniu zmarszczek na powierzchni wody i odnajdywaniu kamienia, który ją zmącił na podjęciu nieuchwytnej barwnej nici, szokującej nas w tkaninie.”
“Blondynki najlepiej nadają się na ofiary. Są jak śnieg, na którym znać krwawe ślady stóp.”
“Deep inside, I am a shy man. And in the presence of colorful characters, I am a clam. I never try to out-eccentric the eccentricsǃ”
“Actors are cattle. I've always said actors are cattle. In fact, Carole Lombard once built a corral on set and put three live calves into it, in recognition of my feelings. I tell them that, and treat them as such, and we get along fineǃ”
“Zbrodnia nie popłaca nawet w telewizji. Trzeba mieć sponsora.”
“Diana i Bazyl żyli długo i szczęśliwie – nie pobrali się.”
“There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
“Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.”
“Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.”
“Never turn your back on a friend.”
“I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.”
“In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.”
“Kocham makabrę w pełnym blasku słońca.”
“The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.”
“Moim najlepszym sposobem na radzenie sobie z jakimś lękiem jest nakręcenie filmu o nim.”
“I’m not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.”
“Jestem gotów dostarczyć publiczności całkowicie zdrowych wstrząsów emocjonalnych. Nasza cywilizacja stała się do tego stopnia opiekuńcza i troskliwa, iż nie mamy już możności odczuwać instynktownych dreszczy lęku. Tymczasem ażeby ocknąć się z odrętwienia i zapobiec bezwładowi, można jeszcze wywoływać owe dreszcze sztucznie. Film wydaje mi się właśnie najlepszym środkiem do tego celu.”
Awarded AFI Life Achievement Award (1979).
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Awarded Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1979).
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Said that he wanted to mention "four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation and encouragement, and constant collaboration
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“four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter, Pat, and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.”
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John Russell Taylor described him as "the most universally recognizable person in the world" and "a straightforward middle-class Englishman who just happened to be an artistic genius"
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Laura Mulvey introduced the idea of the male gaze; the view of the spectator in Hitchcock's films, she argued, is that of the heterosexual male protagonist
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Won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1971).
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Awarded BAFTA Fellowship (1971).
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The AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979, and was knighted in December of that year, four months before his death on 29 April 1980
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And, in 1979, an AFI Life Achievement Award
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Awarded Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1967).
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Which Truffaut nicknamed the "Hitchbook"
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“mechanics, electricity, acoustics, and navigation”
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Hitchcock was appointed a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1980 New Year Honours
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And NBC broadcast the final episode on 10 May 1965
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Told François Truffaut that he had studied "mechanics, electricity, acoustics, and navigation"
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Awarded Edgar Awards (1960).
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Released album “Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Music to Be Murdered By”.
HSD Publications also licensed the director's name to create Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, a monthly digest specialising in crime and detective fiction
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Hitchcock became a United States citizen
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From the British War Office film vaults to London's Imperial War Museum and remained unreleased until 1985, when an edited version was broadcast as an episode of PBS Frontline, under the title the Imperial War Museum had
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“s screenplay, to RKO Radio Pictures as a”
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Was to take his diet seriously with the help of a physician
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Wrote a mystery story for Look, "The Murder of Monty Woolley", a sequence of captioned photographs inviting the reader to find clues to the murderer's identity; Hitchcock cast the performers as themselves, such as Woo
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That Hitchcock portrayed motherly figures as "notorious monster-mothers"
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“Voir le recueil de citations : Rebecca (film, 1940)”
It was inspired by the rapidly changing events in Europe, as covered by an American newspaper reporter played by Joel McCrea
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Hitchcock signed a multi-film contract with Gaumont-British, once again working for Michael Balcon
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When they learned that Reville was pregnant, the Hitchcocks purchased "Winter's Grace", a Tudor farmhouse set in eleven acres on Stroud Lane, Shamley Green, Surrey, for £2,500
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In 1928, when they learned that Reville was pregnant, the Hitchcocks purchased "Winter's Grace", a Tudor farmhouse set in eleven acres on Stroud Lane, Shamley Green, Surrey, for £2,500.
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Reville, who was born just hours after Hitchcock, converted from Protestantism to Catholicism, apparently at the insistence of Hitchcock's mother; she was baptised on 31 May 1927 and confirmed at Westminster Cathedral by Cardinal Francis Bourne on 5 June.
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On 2 December 1926, Hitchcock married the English screenwriter Alma Reville at the Brompton Oratory in South Kensington.
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Hitchcock was hired as an assistant director by a new firm run in the same location by Michael Balcon, later known as Gainsborough Pictures
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Began working for Islington Studios in Poole Street, Hoxton, as a title-card designer
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Received a C3 classification ("free from serious organic disease, able to stand service conditions in garrisons at home
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Studied at Tower Hamlets College (1913–1914).
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Studied at Salesian College (1908–1908).
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Born 1899-08-13.
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s impacted: an actress (Lana Turner), a writer (Dick Powell) and a director (Barry Sullivan). Insightful and liberally sprinkled with characters modeled after various Hollywood royalty from David O. Selznick to Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, witty, with one of Turner
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