Alfred Hitchcock

English, fat, with a silhouette unmistakably known to the public and a tendency towards neuroses, even sexual ones, considered an absolute genius of cinema by many (including Godard and Truffaut), an absolute genius of suspense by all. There’s little to say; the images speak for themselves: Kim Novak thrown from the bell tower, Cary Grant climbing Mount Rushmore, Bodega Bay besieged by birds, Jimmy Stewart spying through binoculars, and, of course, the epoch-making blood shower of Janet Leigh.