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The Birds
This story seems strange, as we are talking about a world of romance mixed with many scenes of exotic drama. Melanie Daniels meets Mitch Brenner at a San Francisco pet shop, and they may both be in a strong romance and decide to follow him at home, bringing him a gift for that new relationship. Events change completely, with birds of all kinds suddenly starting to attack people strangely.
13 September 1895, Coldwater, Michigan, USA
23 July 1908, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
20 February 1907, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
10 May 1914, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
1 October 1920, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
21 December 1915, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
7 June 1909, Stoke Newington, London, England, UK
22 February 1902, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
15 February 1915, Gisborne, New Zealand
14 May 1921, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
11 May 1912, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 January 1930, New Ulm, Minnesota, USA
20 April 1949, Bristol, England, UK
26 April 1878, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
11 January 1930, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
6 May 1912, New York City, New York, USA
4 April 1921, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
31 January 1937, New York City, New York, USA
March 21, 2015
In the thick of an impeccable narrative that pays deep attention to all those involved, the great filmmaker manages to reach far inside the psychological chasm and find a rich inspiration.
December 16, 2011
The Birds represents better than any other Hitchcock film the extreme polarities of his universe: vicious unpredictability and moral and emotional disorder on the one hand, and rigorous stylistic control and formal organization, on the other.
October 06, 2013
This Hitchcock classic somehow strayed from favour for a while, yet in the realm of popular mythology it is now rivalled only by Vertigo or Psycho.
September 29, 2015
The true genius of the film, based on a 1952 short story by Daphne du Maurier, is the way Hitchcock makes the malevolent birds seem like manifestations of his characters' mental unease.
October 06, 2013
Though it lacks the psychological depth of Hitchcock's greatest works, it's characterised by a nightmarish simplicity.
October 09, 2012
Hitch's much misappreciated follow-up to Psycho is arguably the greatest of all disaster films -- a triumph of special effects, as well as the fountainhead of what has become known as gross-out horror.
July 29, 2015
The picture pursues these false clues with excessive long-windedness and occasional fatuity. It is a tribute to Hitchcock's mastery of his craft that, even so, he makes overpoweringly real the menace of the birds.
March 28, 2017
Hitchcock prolongs his prelude to horror for more than half the film, playing with audience suspense with comedy and romance while he sets his stage. The horror when it comes is a hair-raiser ...
October 07, 2008
The movie flaps to a plotless end.
September 21, 2007
Beneath all of this elaborate feather bedlam lies a Hitch cock-and-bull story that's essentially a fowl ball.
October 09, 2012
Few films depict so eerily yet so meticulously the metaphysical and historical sense of a world out of joint.
January 18, 2013
Drawing from the relatively invisible literary talents of Daphne DuMaurier and Evan Hunter, Alfred Hitchcock has fashioned a major work of cinematic art, and "cinematic" is the operative term here, not "literary" or "sociological."
