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Alfred Hitchcock

The Australian Cinémathèque presents an extensive Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) retrospective including all 56 films still in existence and 17 selected episodes for television.

Hitchcock remains one of the most recognised and successful filmmakers of the twentieth century. His career spanned six decades and over fifty films, from early silent cinema through to his masterpieces of suspense in Hollywood. Hitchcock's passion for technical innovation and visual narrative helped shape the development of modern cinema.

While he worked across a variety of genres, it is his mastery of the suspense-thriller that his trademark. A skilful manipulator of menace and anxiety, Hitchcock's orchestration of deceptively mundane situations and their nightmarish counterpoint helped redefine the genre and see him dubbed 'The Master of Suspense'.

QAGOMA acknowledges all the archives, filmmakers and distributors who have generously provided screening materials for this program. Program curated by Amanda Slack-Smith, Australian Cinémathèque.

List of Works

• FEATURE FILMS
• The Pleasure Garden 1925
• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog 1927
• The Ring 1927
• Downhill 1927
• The Farmer's Wife 1928
• Easy Virtue 1928
• Champagne 1928
• The Manxman 1929
• Blackmail 1929
• Elstree Calling 1930
• Juno and the Paycock 1930
• Murder! 1930
• Mary 1931
• The Skin Game 1931
• Rich and Strange (aka East of Shanghai) 1931
• Number Seventeen 1932
• Waltzes from Vienna 1933
• The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934
• The 39 Steps 1935
• Secret Agent 1936
• Sabotage 1936
• Young and Innocent 1937
• The Lady Vanishes 1938
• Jamaica Inn 1939
• Rebecca 1940
• Foreign Correspondent 1940
• Mr & Mrs Smith 1941
• Suspicion 1941
• Saboteur 1942
• Shadow of a Doubt 1943
• Lifeboat 1944
• Bon Voyage 1944
• Aventure Malgache 1944
• Spellbound 1946
• Notorious 1946
• The Paradine Case 1947
• Rope 1948
• Under Capricorn 1949
• Stage Fright 1950
• Strangers on a Train 1951
• I Confess 1953
• Dial M for Murder 1954
• Rear Window 1954
• To Catch a Thief 1955
• The Trouble with Harry 1955
• The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956
• The Wrong Man 1956
• Vertigo 1958
• North by Northwest 1959
• Psycho 1960
• The Birds 1963
• Marnie 1964
• Torn Curtain 1966
• Topaz 1969
• Frenzy 1972
• Family Plot 1976
• TELEVISION
• Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955-62 was Hitchcock's highly successful foray into directing for television. Screened weekly, the half-hour independent segments showcased the suspense and intrigue found in the daily milieu of ordinary people in extraordinary situations. Hitchcock's dryly sardonic introductions opened and closed each episode and, coupled with Charles-François Gounod's 'Funeral March of a Marionette' as the theme music, ensured the series popularity with audiences. Hitchcock directed 17 episodes of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents series over seven years and the first episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1962-65 before retiring from directing for television.
• Revenge 1955
• Breakdown 1955
• The Case of Mr. Pelham 1955
• Back for Christmas 1956
• Wet Saturday 1956
• Mr Blanchard's Secret 1956
• One More Mile to Go 1957
• The Perfect Crime 1957
• Lamb to the Slaughter 1958
• Dip in the Pool 1958
• Poison 1958
• Banquo's Chair 1959
• Arthur 1959
• The Crystal Trench 1959
• Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat 1960
• The Horseplayer 1961
• Bang! You're Dead! 1961
• I Saw the Whole Thing 1962
• Musicians-in-Residence: The Quadratic Contingency
• Every Sunday Hitchcock's silent films will be accompanied by musicians-in-residence The Quadratic Contingency. This post-jazz ensemble of piano, drums, clarinet and double bass will draw on classical and traditional jazz music to create evocative live scores for Hitchcock's earliest films.
• The Quadratic Contingency previewed their debut performance during 2009 alongside the nationally acclaimed ensemble, The West End Composers Collective. They have since played with international touring phenomenon Misinterprotato and nationally acclaimed Robert Davidson (Topology). In 2010, The Quadratic Contingency launched their debut self-titled EP to with one of the most outstanding performances of the year.