French's choice: Hitch the film event of 2012
The best films of 2012: Philip French's choice | Culture | The Observer:
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But above all one man, admittedly a rather large one, towered over the year: Alfred Hitchcock. Thirty-two years after his death, his films (all but a single lost silent picture) are very much with us, and they're inseparable from his complex, often troublesome personality. The BFI put on the biggest Hitchcock retrospective ever staged. Several books have been added to the 70-plus about him, including Nicola Upson's period whodunit Fear In the Sunlight in which Hitch is seen in pre-production on Young and Innocent in mid-1930s Portmeirion. Two new movies centre on Hitchcock and his wife Alma at work in Hollywood, with Anthony Hopkins and Toby Jones impersonating the master in respectively Hitchcock (about the production of Psycho, to be released here in February) and The Girl (his perverse persecution of Tippi Hedren during the making of The Birds and Marnie, on BBC2 on Boxing Day). Most importantly, in the latest poll of international critics held every 10 years by Sight & Sound to determine the greatest films of all time, Hitchcock's Vertigo was the runaway winner
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| That profile in cinematic genius: Hitchcock in his final cameo from Family Plot. |
But above all one man, admittedly a rather large one, towered over the year: Alfred Hitchcock. Thirty-two years after his death, his films (all but a single lost silent picture) are very much with us, and they're inseparable from his complex, often troublesome personality. The BFI put on the biggest Hitchcock retrospective ever staged. Several books have been added to the 70-plus about him, including Nicola Upson's period whodunit Fear In the Sunlight in which Hitch is seen in pre-production on Young and Innocent in mid-1930s Portmeirion. Two new movies centre on Hitchcock and his wife Alma at work in Hollywood, with Anthony Hopkins and Toby Jones impersonating the master in respectively Hitchcock (about the production of Psycho, to be released here in February) and The Girl (his perverse persecution of Tippi Hedren during the making of The Birds and Marnie, on BBC2 on Boxing Day). Most importantly, in the latest poll of international critics held every 10 years by Sight & Sound to determine the greatest films of all time, Hitchcock's Vertigo was the runaway winner
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