Episode 178: Joel Ashton McCarthy talks ‘I Am Alfred Hitchcock’

The YVR Screen Scene Podcast · Aug 24, 2021 · 1h 2m

Alfred Hitchcock was a game-changer. Heck, he made his own game: one through which the goal was to unsettle, to stir, to haunt, to move, and to horrify his audience while remaining wholly committed to pure cinema. But who was Alfred Hitchcock, really? What did he want from his art? What did the industry think of him? What did he really think of his actors (many of whom allege he was a bully)? And should the answers to any of these questions change how we experience his work today? I Am Alfred Hitchcock seeks to answer these questions. The new documentary from Network Entertainment weaves…