2015 A Year With Alfred Hitchcock

Lovely thing I received for Christmas in 2014

There are numerous books, blogs, articles and examinations of the films of Sir Alfred Hitchcock.  2015 will be the year I dedicate myself to viewing each one of his extant films.  I would not dare to presume I would have the least bit of original thought on Hitch or his films.  For me, this will be a real pleasure as I will have the chance to see some films new to me (silents) and old familiar friends.  I do not know if I will view them in chronological order or not.  I can say, this is a project I am looking very much forward to completing over the course of the next twelve months.

Along with directors such as Michael Curtiz and George Steven, for entirely different reasons, Hitchcock is a director whose work almost never ceases to delight me.  More so with repeated viewings as there are so many delightful little surprises that, well, surprise you.

Ivor Novello as The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

I will likely also be reading a few of the books on Hitch I've not picked up in years, or those which have escaped me during this project.

1922      No. 13 (lost)

1925      The Pleasure Garden       

1926      The MountainEagle  (lost)           

1927      The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog    

1927      The Ring

1927      Downhill

1928      The Farmer's Wife

1928      Easy Virtue         

1928      Champagne       

1929      The Manxman   

1929      Blackmail

1930      Murder!

1931      Rich and Strange

1932      Number Seventeen

1933      Waltzes from Vienna

1934      The Man Who Knew Too Much

1935      The 39 Steps

1936      Secret Agent

1936      Sabotage

1937      Young and Innocent

1938      The Lady Vanishes

1939      Jamaica Inn

1940      Rebecca

1940      Foreign Correspondent

1941      Mr. & Mrs. Smith

1941      Suspicion

1942      Saboteur

1943      Shadow of a Doubt

1944      Lifeboat

1945      Spellbound

1946      Notorious

1947      The Paradine Case           

1948      Rope

1949      Under Capricorn

1950      Stage Fright

1951      Strangers on a Train

1953      I Confess

1954      Dial M for Murder

1954      Rear Window

1955      To Catch a Thief

1955      The Trouble with Harry

1956      The Man Who Knew Too Much

1956      The Wrong Man

1958      Vertigo

1959      North by Northwest

1960      Psycho

1963      The Birds

1964      Marnie

1966      Torn Curtain

1969      Topaz

1972      Frenzy  

1976      Family Plot