North By Northwest: To Thine Own Auteur Be True

Tim and Matt have shown previous interest in naming the “Most” of various things - most 00’s, 90’s, and 80’s songs, for example. The things that best embody and symbolize an era or genre or concept. Tim returns that thought experiment here with three movies that are the Most their respective directors. North by Northwest has all the Hitchcock you know and expect, while Moby Dick and My Darling Clementine distill John Huston and John Ford, respectively, as much as they tell actual stories. But which Auteur is truest to themselves?

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