Check out Google right now Go here for a homage (dunno when this effect will expire … I suspect at midnight EDT, about 7 hours from now). Today, Alfred Hitchcock, the greatest director of them all (well, my favorite anyway), would be 104. It would be impossible to overstate how much I love his movies and what an effect they had on me as a young adult.
VERTIGO, a masterpiece, is only my third-favorite of his films (behind REAR WINDOW and PSYCHO); He taught me that art and works that stand up to scholarly criticism can be thoroughly enjoyable and that a vulgar movie can depict the deepest religious thoughts and feelings; One of the events that made me a cinephile was a week-long Hitchcock festival...