1966: The NIGHTMARES of ALFRED HITCHCOCK | Film Profile | Classic Movie Interviews | BBC Archive
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“The making of nightmares with as much realism as you can.”
In this 1966 profile, Alfred Hitchcock talks to Philip Jenkinson about his dreams, causing anxiety in his audiences and defends Psycho against the allegation that it “had set back the cause of mental health several years”.
Edited highlights taken from Film Profile: Alfred Hitchcock, originally broadcast on Monday 19 September 1966, on BBC One.
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How incredible is it that the mental health aspect of “ psycho “ was the topic of conversation in mental health institutions. That media connection to “ Art “ and real life even then were only one point of separation in some people’s mind. Astonishing man.
@petergivenbless900
9 ай бұрын
I suspect Hitchcock misunderstood the criticism, thinking they meant the film's effect on the mental health of the viewer, when it was actually about the depiction of psychiatry and the "explanation" of Norman's psychopathy given at the end of the film. Either way, it's really a moot point because, as Hitchcock himself says, it's all make believe anyway.
@SharonMcwilliams78
9 ай бұрын
@@petergivenbless900 you are absolutely correct.
More please. Would love to see the full interview.
Watching Hitchcock talking about his film making is just as compulsive as watching the films themselves.
Great interview! I almost spit my drink out when he talked about the comments he gave to the papers about the murderer who had seen "Psycho".
Fun fact: Psycho was the first Hollywood talkie film to show a toilet.
@annemariemacmillan4944
9 ай бұрын
Wasn't it to flush a toilet
A great mind.
A very honest interview and man. "I was a loner" - who admits that these days ?
@BadgerBotherer1
9 ай бұрын
I am and do.
@LPBineli
9 ай бұрын
I am a loner
@raftonpounder6696
9 ай бұрын
Me too!
Truly both the most celebrated yet underappreciated filmmaker of his time.
@OlafProt
9 ай бұрын
How was he under appreciated?
@petergivenbless900
9 ай бұрын
@@OlafProt he never won an Oscar and was frequently dismissed by critics as more of a showman and entertainer than a serious artist; it was really Truffaut who pointed our the significance of his visual storytelling, before then he was considered too "low brow" to be taken seriously (especially in terms of his contributions to cinematic development over decades of work). I actually feel the same is somewhat true today of Spielberg; although since 'Schindler's List' he has been taken more seriously as a filmmaker of artistic value, there are still a lot who dismiss his work as simple, manipulative, populist entertainment.
@OlafProt
9 ай бұрын
@@petergivenbless900 very interesting. Thanks!
Why we don't have people of his calibre in present time! Create Horror in audience head what a craft
It's make believe.
Oh gosh 😮, indeed western society had already latest technology even back then
It's make believe.