One of Those Faces You Can’t Help Believing: Anthony Perkins in Psycho

By Aaron Knier

The "shower scene" in Hitchcock's Psycho has become woven into our pop cultural backdrop, but it's the “dinner scene” that shines a narrow light on the character of Norman Bates. [19 October 2009]

Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007

By PopMatters Staff

It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year. [25 January 2008]

North by Northwest

By Bill Gibron

This is thrilling, sexy, funny, fresh, inventive, exhilarating, and ultimately, a first-class illustration of the "they don't make them like they used to" adage. [10 November 2009]

The 39 Steps

By Chadwick Jenkins

In Hitchcock's world, we don't write the play; we just have to know when to act. [6 November 2009]

To Catch a Thief: The Centennial Collection

By Shaun Huston

This is not really about how to nab a cat burglar, but rather about beautiful people in beautiful places. [24 March 2009]

Rebecca

By Stephen Snart

If I had to pinpoint one reason for Rebecca’s prestige it is precisely this: the film’s interest in the natural over the supernatural and the emotional over the sensational. [21 November 2008]

The Lady Vanishes

By Marc Acherman

Criterion does justice to this example of Hitchcock at the height of his British period, cleaning up the original film and providing a variety of supplementary material to sate Hitchcock enthusiasts, including essays, interviews, and promotional art. [4 January 2008]

Vertigo (1959)

By Marc Acherman

Vertigo's new life, carefully restored from the best available prints for this DVD release, should best reveal Hitchcock's mastery of his medium. [7 September 2006]

Rear Window (1954/2000)

By Michael Ward

Rear Window's theatrical rerelease is, among other things, a showcase for mainstream moviedom's emergent special effects technologies. [1 January 1995]

Short Ends and Leader: Great by Greatness: Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘North by Northwest’ 50th Anniversay Edition (1959): Blu-ray