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“If you want to know what staring at cinematic nirvana looks like, there’s a few films I could recommend: Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast, Orson Welles’ Chimes at Midnight, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes, and this warped tale of romantic obsession from Alfred Hitchcock. That the film is a never-ending bounty of self-reflexive nature, a deeply strange beast in which a multitude of readings could be engaged, is part of the strength of its enduring legacy and perverse power. The other part is quite simple, Alfred Hitchcock was simultaneously one of cinema’s greatest entertainers, a perfectionist able to conjure one masterpiece after another, and one of its greatest experimental artists. In-between beautiful movie stars striking poses in immaculate comp” read more
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My Movie Highlights of the 1950s (+Watchlists) (159 movies items)"This is maybe my favourite Hitchcock movie (others are Rear Window, The Birds and North by Northwest ). In this movie we have suspense and a touching love story. I enjoyed it very much. old rating: 9,0 (now 10)"
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Academy Awards Best Supporting Actress Deservers (83 movies items)"1958! Winner: Kim Novak! Nominees: Peggy Cass - Auntie Mame as Agnes Gooch Wendy Hiller - Separate Tables as Pat Cooper Janet Leigh - Touch of Evil as Susan "Susie" Vargas Cara Williams - The Defiant Ones as Billy's Mother"
Academy Awards For Best Director Deservers (89 movies items)"1958! Winner: Alfred Hitchcock! Nominees: Richard Brooks - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Stanley Kramer - The Defiant Ones Mark Robson - The Inn of the Sixth Happiness Robert Wise - I Want to Live!"
Academy Awards For Best Picture Deservers (89 movies items)"1958! Winner: Vertigo! Nominees: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Defiant Ones Separate Tables Touch of Evil"
Academy Awards For Best Actor Deservers (91 movies items)"1958! Winner: James Stewart! Nominees: Tony Curtis - The Defiant Ones as John "Joker" Jackson David Niven - Separate Tables as Major Angus Pollock Paul Newman - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Brick Pollitt Sidney Poitier - The Defiant Ones as Noah Cullen"
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Oscars 1959 Winners (My Version) (23 movies items)"Best Picture! Winner: Vertigo! Nominees: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Defiant Ones Separate Tables Touch of Evil"
Favourite Films (79 movies items)" "Here I was born, and there I died. It was only a moment for you; you took no notice.""
20 Classic Films Not Nominated For Best Picture (20 movies items)"How surprised you are by Hitchcock's twisted psychodrama not having been nominated for Best Picture depends on how au fait you are with the history of the film's reputation. While now thoroughly rehabilitated, to the point that in the 2012 Sight and Sound poll it finally unhorsed "Citizen Kane" as the Greatest Movie Ever Made, "Vertigo" was a critical and commercial flop on release, barely making back its production budget and being received with, at best, shrugged shoulders by the majority of c"