As Hitchcock academic Dr Steve Rawles explains, “It flopped badly on its initial release in 1958 and was poorly received by critics. When it premiered sixty years ago at the iconic Fairmont San Francisco, it was not the hit we know it to be today. In the 2012 British Film Institute film critic’s poll, Vertigo replaced Citizen Kane as “the best film of all time”. Perhaps his most idiosyncratic, iconic work was done on Vertigo and North by Northwest. He developed a style all of his own, which has defined entire genres of film and inspired other hugely successful films. Since his death, he has, if anything, been treated with even fiercer reverence. He was known throughout his life as a brilliant but curmudgeonly man a visionary and a scoundrel. Sir Alfred Hitchcock is easily one of the most influential film directors of all time.
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