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Surprising lack of Citizen Kane. At the same time, a lot of social/cultural struggle films. No Psycho by Hitchcock but 3 other movies by him? Updated list com

by lqdc13 11y ago

Surprising lack of Citizen Kane. At the same time, a lot of social/cultural struggle films. No Psycho by Hitchcock but 3 other movies by him? Updated list completely different from the first list?

ekianjo 11y ago
The list is for aspiring filmmakers, not necessarily just good movies. I can see why Rear Window made it to the list, because it's a script that is ideally made for the movie medium, for example.
- josephcooney 11y ago
  Really? Rear Window always seemed like a script that would be ideally served as a play (i.e. not many scene changes) that Hitchcock had adapted well to a movie.
  - ekianjo 11y ago
    I'm not sure how you would adapt it as a play : how can you capture someone looking at many apartments at a glance in an act ? In a movie, you can just move the camera around in no time from one flat to another, and that effect is incredibly difficult to reproduce in about any other medium.
- lqdc13 11y ago
  Exactly. This is why Citizen Kane should be there. It is not the most enjoyable movie to watch but it was brilliant and a huge paradigm shift.
forgetsusername 11y ago
>No Psycho by Hitchcock but 3 other movies by him? Not like my opinion matters (nor does Mr. Lee's, in the grand scheme of things), but Psycho probably isn't in my top 3 Hitchcock films, either. Vertigo, The Birds, Rear Window for me. Consider Notorious, North by Northwest, Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder...there are quite a few permutations, taste dependent.
- caf 11y ago
  I can't go past Rope.
- lqdc13 11y ago
  Unlike most of his other movies, Psycho broke ground in horror filmmaking. For filmmakers you want the first instance of something. http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/film-techniques-used-film-psycho-by-alfred-470093 http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/film-techniques-used-fil... It shouldn't be a list of good movies, but movies that were responsible for paradigm shifts.

by lqdc13 11y ago

Surprising lack of Citizen Kane. At the same time, a lot of social/cultural struggle films. No Psycho by Hitchcock but 3 other movies by him? Updated list completely different from the first list?

ekianjo 11y ago

The list is for aspiring filmmakers, not necessarily just good movies. I can see why Rear Window made it to the list, because it's a script that is ideally made for the movie medium, for example.

josephcooney 11y ago
Really? Rear Window always seemed like a script that would be ideally served as a play (i.e. not many scene changes) that Hitchcock had adapted well to a movie.
- ekianjo 11y ago
  I'm not sure how you would adapt it as a play : how can you capture someone looking at many apartments at a glance in an act ? In a movie, you can just move the camera around in no time from one flat to another, and that effect is incredibly difficult to reproduce in about any other medium.
lqdc13 11y ago
Exactly. This is why Citizen Kane should be there. It is not the most enjoyable movie to watch but it was brilliant and a huge paradigm shift.

forgetsusername 11y ago

>No Psycho by Hitchcock but 3 other movies by him? Not like my opinion matters (nor does Mr. Lee's, in the grand scheme of things), but Psycho probably isn't in my top 3 Hitchcock films, either. Vertigo, The Birds, Rear Window for me. Consider Notorious, North by Northwest, Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder...there are quite a few permutations, taste dependent.

caf 11y ago
I can't go past Rope.
lqdc13 11y ago
Unlike most of his other movies, Psycho broke ground in horror filmmaking. For filmmakers you want the first instance of something. http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/film-techniques-used-film-psycho-by-alfred-470093 http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/film-techniques-used-fil... It shouldn't be a list of good movies, but movies that were responsible for paradigm shifts.