Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock would have
celebrated his 100th birthday on August 13, 1999. The movie industry is still celebrating his cinematic masterpieces, and nowhere more notably than on the
Internet.
Universal Pictures launched its Hitchcock 100 site,
where you can explore different aspects of the master's legacy. High-bandwidth users will
find out how Hitch worked the lighting, camera angles and acting on Psycho.
Your favorite videos and Bates Motel paraphernalia are on sale.
Hitchcock films are frequently shown on the American Movie Classics channel. Check the current schedule
The Christian Science Monitor commemorated the event with an article on how the
films of Hitchcock have endured.
Salon
took the opposite route, noting the imperfections of the master and his goofy endings.
Although the Alfred Hitchcock exhibit at
New York's Museum of Modern Art has closed, its Web site still has a lot to offer, including a
1939 lecture Hitch gave at
Columbia University.
If you're going psycho for more information on the master, don't fear -
there's more than just a birthday party on the Web:
- Find Hitchcock's filmography at IMDB. You can also find
information about the television series that aired
between 1955 and 1962.
- Learn which of the master's movies made the list at the American Film
Institute's
100 Greatest Movies.
- Find your way to
The MacGuffin Web Page, lauded as the meeting place of
Hitchcock scholars. The page is maintained by the publishers of a quarterly
journal by the same name.
- Recognize the man tossing some litter in The 39 Steps? That's right, it's
Hitchcock himself, in one of
his famous cameos. This page annotates his appearances in
each film. According to the site, Hitchcock's habit began when he was short
an actor and had to fill in.
- Read some famous Hitch quotes.
--- M. Magnarelli
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