Whoa

I watched The Birds last night! I know I should've expected it considering how much I love pretty much every Hitchcock movie I see, but I just didn't expect this one to be any good for some reason. Could I have been any more wrong? Stunning. The opening passages were great fun to see how they were going to segue into the actual bird plot. The first attack on Tippi Hedren was an "oh!" moment and then the first attack happened. And the second. And the third. And the fourth. And, well... colour me impressed. I loved this movie. I was truly frightened in the final scenes in the house where it's completely silent. I was covering my mouth in shock at the attack scene.

And how about that scene at the school? THAT is filmmaking.

A-

1. Rear Window (1954)
2. Psycho (1960)
3. The 39 Steps (1935)
4. North by Northwest (1959)
5. Rebecca (1940)
6. The Birds (1963)
7. Vertigo (1958)
8. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
9. Rope (1948)
10. Sabotage (1936)
11. Dial M For Murder (1954)
12. The Lodger (1927)
13. Strangers on a Train (1951)

Fact - the first three of those are all in my personal Top 30 of all time. And while it may look like I didn't like Sabotage or Rope or The Lodger that much I really do! Every movie on that list except for Strangers is a B- or higher. I probably need to give Strangers on a Train (C+) another go, and I'm giving Dial M For Murder the benefit of the doubt because I saw it so long ago. 1-6 are A+, A or A-! I love me some Hitchcock.