Alfred Hitchcock: The Greatest Director Ever! Alfred Hitchcock is among the few directors to combine a strong reputation for high-art filmmaking with great audience popularity. Throughout his career he gave his audiences more pleasure than they could bask for. The consistency of quality plot lin...

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in London on August 13, 1899. His father, William Hitchcock, a grocer, and his mother, Emma Whelan Hitchcock, brought him up. As a young boy he loved to travel, and by the time he was eight he had ridden every bus line in London and explored all of its docks and sh...

In Alfred Hitchcock's final film Family Plot he incorporates all of his ideas that he had previously used in his other films into one film. In Family Plot he used all the basic Hitchcock motifs along with some that were more directed to one movie. This film brings Hitchcock in full circle star...

PSYCHO Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (staring Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins) is one of the most influential films in motion picture history. Hitchcock uses cinematography, dialogue, costumes and lighting, as well as many other film techniques to thrill the audience and keep them on the edge o...

"Auter" is a French term for the film director who places a personal style on his or her films. It was first coined by Francois Truffaut to describe the mark of a film director on his films. A director can be considered an auteur if about five of his films depict a certain style that is definite...

George C. Scott once said that the Academy Awards were nothing more than "a meaningless, self-serving meat parade"(Legrand 478). Though his statement may seem harsh, many regard it true. In fact, over the 74 years that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been giving out Osc...

Robin Wood's article "Ideology, Genre, Auteur" suggests that instead of looking at movies in only one perspective, one should combine different approaches to assess the movie as a whole. By collectively looking at the ideologies, the methods, and the director, one will get a more acc...

The great movie event of 1972 was The Godfather, the top-grossing film of the year and possibly of all time. In a nation apparently worried about violence in motion pictures, on television, and in its streets, the popularity of The Godfather made ironic commentary on American attitudes and values. T...