When passing judgment on their own work, filmmakers seldom find themselves in agreement with the critical consensus. For example, Orson Welles insisted that his best film was not “Citizen Kane” but ...
Frankfurt, West Germany, January 1955: Director Alfred Hitchcock is greeted by actor Joseph Cotten at the Rhein-Maine airport. Cotten starred in Hitchcock’s “Shadow of a Doubt” (1943), and in 1955 was ...