August 6, 1999

We Are All Hitchcock's Children

By THOMAS DOHERTY

The films are indelible, the surname is adjectival, and the silhouette of the portly profile is instantly recognizable. Nearly two decades after his death, Alfred Hitchcock still towers over American cinema. Like other geniuses of the motion-picture medium -- D.W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, and F.W. Murnau -- Hitchcock bequeathed not just a list of screen masterpieces but a lexicon for the language of film. Today, at the cineplex or on

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