Do you watch Hitchcock? His first film was in 1929 and called Blackmail. I personally have seen Birds and Rear Window and think they're both amazing.
I have obviously heard of him, but I really haven't seen much if any of his films. What made him so popular anyway?
He uses an interesting tendency towards recurring themes and plot devices through his life as a diretor.
Oh okay, so he almost stuck to what he knew and made himself known for it? What was his most successful film, if you know?
of critics, and it topped the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list in 1998, as well as its 2007 update. "Citizen Kane" is particularly praised for Gregg Toland's cinematography, Robert Wise's editing, Bernard Herrmann's music, and its narrative structure, all of which have been considered innovative and precedent-setting.
The quasi-biographical film examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a character based in part upon the American newspaper magnates William Randolph
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I think it was really special to have behind-the-scenes photos, you know, pictures that the fans haven't seen before, all together of a very specific moment of my life, an album of my life. They just get to see all the things that they hadn't seen that were going on behind the scenes; really cool stuff, not typical. They're really fun photos. And even for me, when I look at them, they say so much. Photos really tell a