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A collection of Alfred Hitchcock movies will be available for streaming on Netflix starting June 1, and Netflix is also staging a massive, six-week screening series at its Paris Theater in New York City that will cover many of the master of suspense’s classics.
Available for streaming on Netflix in the U.S. beginning on June 1 will be “Vertigo,” “Rear Window,” “Frenzy,” “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” “Family Plot,” “The Birds,” and more. “Psycho” is already available on the streamer, as is the biopic “Hitchcock” as directed by Sacha Gervasi. All the films will be presented in a row of titles on Netflix, and they’ll also be accompanied by some other films that were inspired by Hitchcock, such as “Us” and “Barbarian,” which Netflix has also licensed.
Netflix in association with the New York Film Critics Circle are co-presenting a series at the Paris Theater called “HITCH! The Original Cinema Influencer.” It runs May 16 through June 29 and will include over 60 films as part of the series, 36 of which are directed by Hitchcock himself. They include some of his early English films like “Blackmail” and later Hollywood masterpieces like “North by Northwest.”
Other films that influenced and were contemporaries to Hitchcock’s own style will also be shown, such as Francois Truffaut’s “The Bride Wore Black” and Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “Diabolique.” It will even include a screening of the Kent Jones documentary “Hitchcock/Truffaut” that is a conversation between the two auteurs, and 35 different films as part of the series will be screened on 35mm film.
The addition of Hitchcock movies to Netflix is a big get, as Netflix historically has lacked a healthy amount of films prior to 1960 when compared to other streamers like Max. Hitchcock films were for a time available via Peacock, but it will be interesting to see which of Hitchcock’s classics get the bump of the Netflix Effect.
Check out the full schedule for the Paris Theater series here.
