Rebecca

“We have here something that really scared me as a child and, I guess, still does now. I love Joan Fontaine. This is Rebecca by Hitchcock. Started watching Hitchcock movies when I... No! Sorry. I started watching Hitchcock when I was a child, and I've always been really mesmerized by his psychology. It's very, very strong, very erotic. And it's actually weird as a kid that I was so into it.”

“These I'm taking for Dad, Notorious and Rebecca. My dad raised me, on Hitchcock. This always hits, and I'm going to bring it right to him.”

“I was really anxious to see Rebecca. I had seen all of Hitchcock's films in the '50s and '60s, but this film came out a little earlier and I hadn't seen it, and I had no way to see it. Well, believe it or not, I found the most unusual way to watch Rebecca. A friend of mine, an animator, literally had a 35 millimeter projector in his apartment. That sounds insane. This is a projector that you would have in a motion picture theater, but he had a 35 millimeter projector in his in his apartment, literally in his apartment, and he had a print of Rebecca, and I was able to see this masterpiece in his home, and never thought I would view the film in that manner, but great film.”

“Oh, so… I wanted to be Alfred Hitchcock, and Vertigo is a really favorite film, and I’ve seen probably every single one of his films, maybe not every single British film, but I certainly know most of the British films and all of the American films. And I recently had an opportunity to see Rebecca and I think Joan Fontaine, there with Laurence Olivier, should be completely overshadowed, and she holds a kind of sensitivity and fragility in her performance. I’m really going with Rebecca as a really wonderful Hitchcock film, and obviously one of the great masters.”

“For my last pick, I’m going to see what the Closet feeds me. What am I drawn to? This feels like tarot cards. What should I see? Okay. Boom. Rebecca. I have never seen this Alfred Hitchcock movie, and, because I love the horror genre, I also love suspense, so that’s going to be good. I’m going to take it.”

“We watched Rebecca first, which was another one they bought on laserdisc, which is right next to it. But when I saw Notorious, my mind was blown. I think it’s one of the great film performances of all time. Love this. Love Rebecca.”