Among his most stunning montages were a harrowing attack by a bullet-firing crop-dusting plane on Cary GrantĪt a deserted crossroad amid barren cornfields in 'North by Northwest,' a brutal shower-slaying in 'Psycho' and an avian assault on a sleepy village in 'The Birds.' His distinctive style was vigorously visual,Īlways stressing imagery over dialogue and often using silence to increase apprehension. In delicately balancing the commonplace and the bizarre, he was the most noted juggler of emotions in the longest major directorial career in film history. Progressed from deceptively commonplace trifles of life to shattering revelations, and with elegant style and structure, he pervaded mundane events and scenes with a haunting mood of mounting anxiety.

Films made by the portly, cherubic director invariably His best movies were meticulously orchestrated nightmares of peril and pursuit relieved by unexpected comic ironies, absurdities and anomalies. Thrillers for more than half a century was the master manipulator of menace and the macabre, and the leading specialist in suspense and shock. Hitchcock once summed up his approach to moviemaking: 'Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake.' The director of scores of psychological In a characteristically incisive remark, Mr. Hitchcock, ailing with arthritis and kidney failures, had been in declining health for a year.

FLINTĪlfred Hitchcock, whose mastery of suspense and of directing technique made him one of the most popular and celebrated of film makers, died yesterday at the age of 80 at his home in Los Angeles. Newspaper in Education (NIE) Teacher ResourcesĪpOBITUARY Alfred Hitchcock Dies A Master of Suspense By PETER B. Alfred Hitchcock Dies A Master of Suspense

Alfred hitchcock death