Review of My Name is Alfred Hitchcock - Mark Cousins

[@johnsharman7262]

A very good summary of Mark Cousins style of film-making: he seems to be hung up on his time interviewing directors and actors, teasing out their thoughts as they rewatched a scene from their films

[@daviddunne4737]

Good . Hitchcock's voice did change as he got older, as in most men . I thought Alistair did a fair job , of course knowing him is a slight spoiler .

[@garrettbays6942]

I didn't realize that this was the same director of The Story of Film, and knowing that really makes me worried. I tried watching The Story of Film, and like you, I didn't watch all of it. I probably watched four, maybe five hours of it, and by the last two hours of what I did watch, I quite honestly felt like I was sitting in a cell being forced to look at clips of films I would never watch in my life. The series at first appeared as if it would show the progression of film and then immediately went into an inconsistent approach of displaying the different time periods. Once clips from the film The Holy Mountain (1973) were shown, it wasn't long before I decided that I had had enough with the crap that I was being forced to glimpse. Once I stopped watching it, I literally felt a sort of freedom. That may be a very weird comparison, but I didn't feel like I learned a thing. Frankly, I found I learned more about the progression of film from Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (2007), and I am not a fan of DeMille at all, but I do enjoy his original version of The Ten Commandments (1923); the remake is just a bunch of overdramatic fluff and twaddle.

[@cliffreviewsarthouse]

Interesting to hear your experience.