Vanity Fair Does Hitchcock

Vanity Fair's Hitchcock homage is great fun. The Psycho montage is right-on. As if we didn't already know, Marion Cotillard is game for anything.

And Emile Hirsch and James McAvoy are creepily handsome in black-and-white for Strangers on a Train.

Gwenyth Paltrow is very Grace Kelly, perfect for To Catch a Thief. And Naomi Watts, Keira Knightley, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Charlize Theron capture the period. But while their photos are gorgeous, Renee Zellweger and Jodie Foster seem too strong and modern to be Hitchcock women.

And as coolly suave as Paltrow's Iron Man co-star Robert Downey, Jr. is here (maybe he needed to shave the beard and trim the uptick in his hair), only George Clooney or Hugh Grant could come close to Cary Grant. (Or AMC's Jon Hamm?) It reminds us what a tall order that is. Seth Rogen makes a brilliant comic choice for the crop-duster sequence in North by Northwest.

Isn't it weird that Rear Window's Javier Bardem and Scarlett Johansson are not looking out the window in their Rear Window shot?

[Hat Tip to lovehater]