Hitchcock, drama, documentary and film

On boxing day there was a drama on BBC2 called 'The Girl' all about Alfred Hitchcock starring Sienna Miller, it wasn't as good as I was expecting but it is defiantly worth a watch, it only focused on the filming of The Birds and I was hoping it would be based around his hole career, but never the less here is a little synopsis and a tailor.

Alfred Hitchcock was at the height of his fame and creativity when, in 1962, he chose an unknown fashion model to star in his most ambitious film, The Birds. But as he sculpted Tippi Hedren into the perfect Hitchcock blonde of his imagination, he became obsessed with the impossible dream of winning the real woman's love. His failure destroyed both of their careers. 

Following this drama was a documentary presented by Paul Merton about all 23 Hitchcock films, I really enjoyed it, it was great to learn more about the great director and learn about his films I didn't even know existed, and how he learned his trade in the film business, here is a a synopsis and trailer.

Documentary in which Paul Merton explores Alfred Hitchcock's film career.

These moody features - some silents such as The Lodger - provided the essential cinematic DNA for his rise to prominence as Hollywood's 'master of suspense'.

Merton sees Hitchcock as a man immersed in the visual language of cinema, who understood how to use camera movement and lighting for dramatic effect. For Hitchcock, heavily influenced by the German expressionist cinema, the pictures would always be more important than the dialogue.

Using clips and previously unseen archive interviews with Hitchcock, Merton weaves together a playful narrative of the director's early career and macabre world, revealing a man with a great sense of humour.

So carrying on my new found Hitchcock obsession, there was a few films that stood out that I really want to see, such as 'Frenzy', Mr & Mrs Smith, The Birds, Vertigo and Rear Window. while looking on the internet for these films I stumbled across this....

I managed to get hold of a copy and watched it, it is very good with a great performance from Antony Hopkins who plays Hitchcock, but like the BBC 2 drama I felt robbed, as it only really focused on the making and filming of Psycho, and I was more eager to learn about his early career, in my opinion the documentary  is by far the best out of the three, but all three are worth watching.