Martin Scorsese on Alfred Hitchcock

[@azohundred1353]

Between the Hitchcock films, Anthony Mann westerns, and Anatomy Of A Murder, Jimmy Stewart had one heck of a 1950's filmography.

[@Flike245]

With Lubitsch and Cukor he had a solid 40s too.

[@lovesickmovie]

AND 12 Angry Men!

[@andrewforbes1433]

@@lovesickmovieJames Stewart wasn’t in 12 Angry Men.

[@lovesickmovie]

Haha yeah whoops that's Henry Fonda! I get old white dudes confused like that all the time.

[@Mannizilla]

@@lovesickmovie Henry Fonda 😉

[@ralphus44]

I love hearing Scorsese talk about movies. He's such a fan, his enthusiasm makes me want to watch them.

[@_scabs6669]

"The plot is a line you can hang things on"

[@_scabs6669]

"You want everything neat and wrapped up, but life isn't like that. Even the stories I'm gonna tell you are not like that now..."

[@karl_alan]

I miss technicolor. Vertigo, suspiria, wizard of oz...doesn't matter the genre, there's something that draws my eyes with those oversaturated vibrant colors.

[@edwarddore7617]

If you haven't seen Suspiria in 4K, I highly recommend it, Deep Red also.

[@karl_alan]

@@edwarddore7617 💯 absolutely Thank you.

[@laurabarton9596]

I had no idea they did a Hitchcock movie in 3 D. I always thought of it as more a gimmick back then, not an art form. Very interesting.

[@dam00k]

Nice to see a great director treat Hitchcock respectfully and with thoughtfulness.

[@_scabs6669]

"The more you restrain, the better the explosion is when it happens. And on the way to the explosion there are these meditative states."

[@DeflatingAtheism]

I’m not one to get scared at movies. When I saw Psycho in a theater, the words I thought would best describe it are “eerily beautiful”.

[@Njbear7453]

I saw Rebecca for the first time last month and i was in awe the entire time ! What a film. Olivier is top- notch.

[@loganperry5167]

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"

[@loganperry5167]

Was into Scorsese on Vertigo,but it gets even better with his Psycho observations. Thanks Marty & JWBS

[@karl_alan]

Don't know if he's seen it, but from what he mentions here, Rope would be up his alley

[@chriswright4677]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mahzunyuzlu535]

vertigo is hitchcock's best. it is a movie years ahead of its time. it has an inimitable, unexplainable atmosphere. playing with the colors, the dream sequence, the ever-present ominous mystery.... it is brilliant.

[@ct6852]

I think it's really, really beautiful to look at. But I find it kind of hard to put it so high on the list like a lot of critics do. Feel like I'm missing something.

[@Fanfanbalibar]

@@ct6852 SURE YOU DO MISS SOMETHING !IGNORANCE OF THE THINGS OF HEART, LOVE, LOSS, ETC.......

[@ct6852]

@@Fanfanbalibar If the movie had more heart you'd think Scotty would end up with Midge. But instead the whole thing was about his weird infatuation with Madeleine...someone he did not know, and then refused to know.

[@c.7610]

@@ct6852I’ve loved and studied Hitchcock for 50 years and while I certainly respect the movie (especially its cinematography and music), I don’t like it very much. The story is just too weird and unbelievable in all kinds of ways. So you’re not alone.

[@ct6852]

@@c.7610 Yeah there's a lot I really respect about it. Mostly regarding the way it looks. But something about Scotty is just too clueless and perverted to love where the story goes.

[@artdeco64]

Off subject: Jesus Christ, Grace Kelly was beautiful.

[@michaellasumiso3462]

Kim Novak too

[@Jesuslovesfilm2121]

Hitchcock moves the camera like a madman

[@destroybot3000]

Scorcese went to that school of camera movement. Hitchcock founded the school (with others like Mario Bava, and sometimes Fellini) and I wish there were more graduates.

[@icetech6]

I would like his opinion about Rope.. i love that movie soo much

[@brukehintsa2207]

Sawed Vertigo two years ago on dvd. And to this day it still one of my favourite Hitchcock movies alongside The Birds, Psycho, Rear Window, and North by Northwest.

[@ArchieAndy27]

Scorsese is a legend. His passion for cinema comes across so clearly and is so infectious! He is a famous proponent of Powell and Pressburger (Powell worked on a few of Hitch's early films), i highly recommend people check out his documentary, Made In England. It'll send you down a rabbit hole of their films, but well worth it! 😅

[@destroybot3000]

Thanks for the recommendation! this is a really intriguing documentary that explores how Scorcese developed his language.

[@davethewave0075]

Vertigo was his best film

[@Purplenpinkk]

Rebecca is my favorite ❤️

[@Njbear7453]

Mine too, but I am a sucker for north by northwest

[@loganperry5167]

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"

[@Purplenpinkk]

@@loganperry5167 “Look down there. It's easy, isn't it? Why don't you? Why don't you? Go on. Go on. Don't be afraid...” 😱 It’s the best. The cinematography 🤩

[@anthonyleecollins9319]

I had the exact same experience seeing Dial M for Murder in 3D, after having seen it in 2D, but of course Scorsese broke it down and explained it far better than I ever could have.

[@edwarddore7617]

I actually have the 3D blu-ray of dial M for Murder, it's pretty wild Hitchcock filmed a movie in 3D. Rear Window is my favorite, saw it at the theater recently.

[@robertanelson8487]

Fantastic video thank you. Topaz is another magnificent film by Hitchcock. I do appreciate it with some film makers can still surprise an audience. Barbarian is a great example.

[@spinin1251]

Dial M for Murder in 3d? You learn something new. Not totally surprising since I know it was a trend in the past, but still. Given the space and setting in most of the film I can see how that would make a different and cool watch. I'd pay to see that.

[@steveconn]

I always liked the remake of Dial M, A Perfect Murder. Many don't.

[@FirewaterRepublic]

I think Vertigo's important because it's a Hitchcock film that isn't Psycho, Rear Window, or The Birds which has such a recognizable gimmick. There is a suspense story going on but its very character and dialogue driven, and one of the great love stories-- it's just a drama, not an action film, and so what that features is the very core of Hitchcock's craft without bells and whistles. It's kind of like if an unusually masterful director of commercials did a more existential "mood" piece, you'd see the artistry without the "purpose" distracting you from it. Not to insult the films I called "gimmicky," comparing them to commercials when they're all excellent, but Vertigo is certainly not as "commercial" as those others, and asks more of a psychological than a sensory involvement from the audience.

[@DavidCarroll-t5g]

In Vertigo, Coit Tower figures prominently as a backdrop to Scottie's flat. Coit Tower was financed in 1933 by Lillie Hitchcock Coit, a wealthy socialite who paid homage to firefighters with etched scenes inside the tower. Scottie assumed a fireman's carry in rescuing the woman. Given that there are no lost coincidences in Hitchcock movies, this is too alluring to bypass - not only for his namesake but for the action scene.

[@genlovell4662]

Very insightful analysis 😊

[@lovesickmovie]

OH NO LET'S GO

[@gallery7596]

My issues with this movie: Stewart, somehow, survives dangling from that eavestrough even though we can't see anybody else there who could've saved him; throwing that dummy out the window didn't seem like a very well thought out plan, would've been nice to see the mastermind get punished, too; Stewart seems a little too old for his role; I find it hard to believe when he later rediscovers her that Novack's character could so convincingly pretend she'd never met Stewart before, and, boy, that ending sure is abrupt. However, I still like "Vertigo." I admire it's fine music and technical craftsmanship and that moment where Novack looks right into our eyes is awesome.

[@tommoncrieff1154]

A tiny point. The M in Dial M for Murder does not stand for Mayfair, as Scorsese says, it stands for Maida Vale. Maida Vale is north west of Central London, straight north from Hyde Park and on the left. Hitchcock’s exteriors were shot there and the Hollywood exterior set is a reproduction of one of a curving Maida Vale street.

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

Grace Kelly was so beautiful. What's strange is how similar Colleen Camp looks to her and nobody else seems to notice.

[@Bacalao2929]

My favorite is Berserk

[@Fanfanbalibar]

ARE YOU IN A MENTAL INSTITUTION?

[@garytiptin6479]

"Berserk" is enjoyable, but NOT one of Hitchcock's creations.

[@loganperry5167]

Maybe,you mean "Frenzy"? It is a good one.

[@auser1617]

It's actually Media Vale, not Mayfair.......

[@Lokipc]

I love how Hitchcock used Jimmy Stewart against type. Who thought Jimmy Stewart could be so kinky. Especially in Vertigo. There’s a part where he rubs his lips and it is beautifully disturbing. It’s one of those images stuck in my brain.

[@jjphoenix4055]

Psycho is and would always be Hitchcock's most popular masterpiece and for me his absolute BEST! The parts Scorsese love about Vertigo are the ones that bore me personally, also not crazy about Kim Novak playing those two roles. Grace Kelly or Janet Leigh would've sold me Stewart's obsession much better than Novak's bland performance. Dial M For Murder is excellent too, and also better than Vertigo.

[@Fanfanbalibar]

YOUR 2 NEURONS DICATE YOU THIS STUPID COMMENT !

[@classiclife7204]

👍

[@ronhobbs463]

Wrong.

[@jorgefiguerola1239]

When I read and listen to all of this I wish I never was.

[@Mr.Goodkat]

Why?

[@jorgefiguerola1239]

​@@Mr.Goodkat Greatness that others have achieved, unreal level of craft, and that I no.

[@peteradaniel]

Sorry Marty it’s Maida Vale, not Mayfair. They’re upper middle-class.

[@charlieiannini3502]

This what I love most about Marty he's like the greastest teacher ever

[@beechnut8779]

There is something about the way Hitchcock films scenes that looks "off" in a way; artificial, dream-like, even fake that actually increases the sense of nightmarish tension. No other director creates this mood of disturbing unreality with such expertise.

[@stevemcintyre7530]

Look, Vertigo is great. But it’s gratifying to see that Scorsese recognises that the plot is somewhat irrelevant - indeed rather silly. As is the source material. Also remember that MS directed a 3D film.

[@lafarga2330]

Hitchcock's style seemed bland to me some years ago, but the more I appreciate film making the more I realize how genious and odd his films are

[@JingleJangleJam]

and he's intentionally ordinary and bland in some scenes, to get us to suspect that the suspense could happen in part of everyday life, like in the Birds

[@kykeon]

3D movies? what is that?

[@lynnturman8157]

It was a gimmick/jspecial effect invented in the 1950s where you could see a movie that showed depth. You could kind've see into the movie. But to get the effect, you had to wear 3D glasses. Dial M for Murder is one of the few examples in which the 3D was used for artistic purposes instead of just a gimmick.

[@kykeon]

@@lynnturman8157 So Avatar was not the first 3d glass movie.

[@lynnturman8157]

@@kykeon ha ha...no. They were popular for a few years in the 50s. It was mostly just a gimmick.

[@TristanColgate]

Of all the pointless remakes and updates to classics, you'd think someone would have thought of doing a modern digital reprint of Dial M for Murder!

[@SteRDLK]

They did already didn't they? Perfect Murder in the 90's

[@Njbear7453]

0:50 LMAO that looks so fake; BUT.... it’s hitch

[@grosbeak6130]

Dumb.

[@Digibeatle09]

Sorry for the “bum note” - but why didn’t Scorsese bear in mind some of these things in making “Killers of the Flower Moon” - particularly as regards keeping an eye on the eventual length of the movie - I know some think highly of the movie (and the sad tale it relates of wilful greed against a Native American tribe) but it’s way too long imo and - for “ordinary Joe”s like myself - the horrible outcome for the indigenous people concerned has pretty much sunk in after 60 mins or so.

[@Fanfanbalibar]

YOU CAN GET OUT OF THE THEATER !

[@scottmandu8316]

Everybody raves about Vertigo. Borrrring. Not even a top three Hitch film😮

[@JingleJangleJam]

I think of it as the Eisenhower period. Nobody should just watch Vertigo alone, but go chronologically from the first to last year of Eisenhower's America, and you go from ''I Confess'', which is a noir with a Catholic priest as a character, very interesting and it is his final in the series of the Golden Age noir output of his 40s, coming just in the same year as Eisenhower is sworn to office, like a kind of close of a previous era, one of his most complicated and most subtle scripts. Which period of Hitchcock you find least ''borrring'' depends upon your taste. In 1954, as Eisenhower's presidency kicks off a new period in America, Hitchcock switches to bold colours and templates a whole new style in ''Dial M for Murder'', and ''Rear Window''. In 1955 he becomes a parodist and satirist of 50s American pragmatic can-do attitude of culture, in ''The Trouble With Harry'' and ''To Catch A Thief'', which are sublime comedies up there with Moliére and Ernst Lubitsch. 1956 he makes ''The Man Who Knew Too Much'', and in a short gap in his new technicolor style makes a very interest documentary-film with Henry Fonda that pays homage to the past noir films but does so with a real-life instead of a fictonal tale - more a small bridge and intermezzo of his Eisenhower period's main attractions though - and more of a social document and political statement than a work of art, expressing Hitchcock's own views towards the ominous effect of the legal system to persecute unfairly and punish wrongly innocent people, just two years after the McCarthy trials. 1958 was the year of Vertigo, my words cannot do it justice. Then ''North by Northwest'' and finally, Hitchcock's final film before Eisenhower leaves office is ''Psycho'', which emanates with the depressing feeling of the final feeling that the US left behind after Eisenhower remains a rather bleak, depressing, place with undertones of future looming dark clouds to come. All in all this period of Hitchcock from 1953 - Psycho, is I consider the greatest work any film maker has, or ever will do in the history of cinema. This is not opinion it is written in stone for eternity.

[@lynnturman8157]

I thought it was boring too the first time I saw it. But it rewards repeat viewing. Finally, it pulled me into its spell the same way Kim Novak pulls Jimmy Stewart into her spell. It's hypnotic & mesmerizing.

[@loganperry5167]

@@JingleJangleJam food for thought,thanks

[@mahzunyuzlu535]

it is an indicator. if someone does not like vertigo, then they haven't reached the intellectual capacity yet. it is like not liking a dostoevsky book. you will appreciate its brilliance when you have accumulated enough experience and wisdom.

[@Njbear7453]

I’ll never forget that scene with the bright GREEN lighting coming in through the window.