Obsessed with 'Vertigo' – New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece (1997)

Em São Francisco, um detetive aposentado (James Stewart) que sofre de um terrível medo de alturas é encarregado de vigiar uma mulher (Kim Novak) com possíveis tendências suicidas, até que algo estranho acontece nesta missão.

One Person on the street does not vertigo when suddenly something happens to him

Baseado no livro "Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho", este filme revela os bastidores do clássico Psicose (1960). Na época, mesmo estando no auge de sua carreira, Hitchcock não conseguiu apoio para realizar a obra, porque os estúdios não queriam investir em um pequeno filme de terror. O resultado foi uma produção independente, que encontrou dificuldades para driblar a censura e para ser distribuída nos EUA, em função das cenas de violência e nudez. Além disso, durante as filmagens, ocorreram brigas entre Hitchcock e sua esposa, Alma (Helen Mirren), os problemas de saúde do diretor e desentendimentos com o elenco. Mas contrariando todas as expectativas, "Psicose" se tornou uma referência no cinema mundial e um dos maiores sucessos na carreira do cineasta.

Richard Thorndyke chega ao Instituto Neuro-Psiquiátrico Para os Muito, Muito Nervosos para tornar-se seu diretor. Mas suas novas funções vão muito além de garantir que tudo funcione da forma correta: ele foi chamado principalmente para descobrir a origem de falcatruas que andam acontecendo lá dentro. Tudo complica ainda mais quando ele próprio é ameaçado de morte, por saber demais, o que traz a tona seu próprio problema psicológico: ele sofre de alta ansiedade! O filme faz homenagem explícita as obras de Alfred Hitchcock. Algumas sequências trazem paródias de cenas famosas de filmes como Os Pássaros, Psicose e Um Corpo que Cai.

The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the story of the man behind the curtain and his greatest obsession.

O documentário capta parte da famosa entrevista de Alfred Hitchcock e François Truffaut, em 1962, com contribuições de diversos cineastas, entre eles David Fincher, Martin Scorsese e Wes Anderson.

Director Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his psychological thrillers, Hitchcock’s leading ladies were cool, beautiful and preferably blonde. One such actress was Tippi Hedren, an unknown fashion model given her big break when Hitchcock’s wife saw her on a TV commercial. Brought to Universal Studios, Hedren was shocked when the director, at the peak of his career, quickly cast her to star in his next feature, 1963’s The Birds. Little did Hedren know that as ambitious and terrifying as the production would be to shoot, the most daunting aspect of the film ended up coming from behind the camera.

A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.

Sangaile tem 17 anos e é fascinada por aviões de acrobacia. Durante um show no verão, ela conhece Auste, uma garota da sua idade. Dessa amizade floresce uma história de amor.

Finding an unfinished script written by Alfred Hitchcock himself, Martin Scorsese attempts to recreate it himself as Hitchcock would have.

In 1990, as a boy, Giulio was chased through the woods by two women after spying on them practicing witchcraft. Now a young film student in Turin, he watches his neighbors in the flats across from his third floor apartment, especially Sasha when she's naked or arguing with her mother. Giulio's girlfriend is disgusted with his voyeurism, but, after a murder occurs, Giulio is convinced that two relative strangers, just as in Hitchcock and Highsmith's "Strangers in a Train," have agreed to murder each other's bête noir. He follows his suspects, ends up with an intruder and a broken foot, and may be in real danger. Is he more than a peeping Tom?

A tribute to a fascinating film shot by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, and to the city of San Francisco, California, where the magic was created; but also a challenge: how to pay homage to a masterpiece without using its footage; how to do it simply by gathering images from various sources, all of them haunted by the curse of a mysterious green fog that seems to cause irrepressible vertigo…

A documentary about Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1954 film Rear Window.

A journalist, who is still in love with his ex-girlfriend, becomes the obsession of his landlord's daughter.

A documentary about the making and restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece "Vertigo." Narrated by Roddy McDowall, with behind-the-scenes talk from Barbara Bel Geddes, Henry Bumstead, Robert A. Harris, Patricia Hitchcock, James C. Katz, Kim Novak, Peggy Robertson and Martin Scorsese. Brings fresh perspective, not just to the film and the director, but to the Fifties Hollywood as well. [Included as extra with DVD release].

Documentary short focusing on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1953 film I Confess.

This is a wonderful and revealing film about famed horror and suspense director Alfred Hitchcock. You'll see behind-the-scenes of some of his most famous films including Psycho, Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, Vertigo and many more! Containing interviews, unique production shorts, trailers, film clips, news segments, and more, this collection offers a rare look into the life and times of this man who became a Hollywood legend and the undisputed Master of Suspense!

Screenwriter John Michael Hayes reminisces about his partnership with Alfred Hitchcock during the making of the classic 1954 film Rear Window.

Film director Hitchcock discusses his life and career in long talks with Pia Lindstrom (newscaster and daughter of Hitchcock star Ingrid Berman) and with film historian William Everson. Excerpts from several films illustrate these interviews. Discussion topics include: what is fear?, method acting vs. film acting, the difference between the usual "Who Done It" mystery and what he considers to be real suspense. His choice of leading ladies and why (Bergman, Baxter, Kelly, Marie Saint, Leigh, etc.).