He's the most famous director in the history of the movies, but Alfred Hitchcock remains an enigma, a showman who loved to make cheeky cameos in his films and an odd-looking man who obsessed about his leading ladies.
He's the most famous director in the history of the movies, but Alfred Hitchcock remains an enigma, a showman who loved to make cheeky cameos in his films and an odd-looking man who obsessed about his leading ladies.
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Demetrios Matheou
At Christmas we were presented with the darkest possible version of the director, by the BBC drama The Girl, a heavy-handed affair that dealt with his hounding of the actress Tippi Hedren during the making of The Birds. Hitchcock is a very welcome antidote. It's not just better made and hugely more enjoyable, but beneath its buoyant façade is a nuanced characterisation of the man that actually feels tenable.
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