a thread for hitchcock's 'vertigo'

and she can twirl a snifter

Cary Grant was not versatile enough to be the greatest actor of the 20th century. He was brilliant at what he could do.

Favorite non-Vertigo performance of Henry Jones, who plays the droopy-dog coroner? I'd have to go with either the town drunk in 3:10 to Yuma or Cloris Leachman's father-in-law on "Phyllis" (also set in SF btw).

I'll go with the gimmicky early-70s made-for-TV movie where he played a mailman delivering three critical letters to various people...no idea what the title was.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070304/fullcredits

He's also in The Girl Can't Help It, Dick Tracy, and Butch Cassidy.

That's it! Lyle Waggoner and Ken Berry--that's bringing out the early-'70s heavy artillery.

Carol Burnett musta been on hiatus

you're not versatile enough!

http://trueclassics.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/devlin-notorious.jpg

who needs versatile anyway

Hedda Hopper, apparently.

Fri, Sep-21; see also Sep-25
6:00pm @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, 129m)
NOTE: "Vertigo will be screened in a rare original IB Technicolor release print. If you have only seen one of the recent restorations, or seen the film on DVD or other video, you haven't really seen it. The sound in the most recent restoration was badly redone, and this is a film that especially depends on the 'look' of IB Technicolor. "

Sounds like the same print showed last weekend in NYC.

Did you see it?

nope, not this time. I've seen various incarnations of the movie at least 8-10x.

also have visited the Mission Dolores graveyard, Scottie's house, Fort Point, etc.

(not the "fall" mission -- there is no tower)

That's it! Lyle Waggoner and Ken Berry--that's bringing out the early-'70s heavy artillery.

― clemenza, Thursday, August 2, 2012 10:14 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Carol Burnett musta been on hiatus

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, August 2, 2012 10:15 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Haven't seen it since I was 19, when I wished it had been called Midge. Will plan to catch that Siskel screening in Swpt.

who needs versatile anyway

Versatility is overrated. A spork is versatile.

a spork compares poorly with James Fuckin' Cagney.

http://trueclassics.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/devlin-notorious.jpg

who needs versatile anyway

― horseshoe, Thursday, August 2, 2012 7:34 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i watched this movie w a girlfriend, who was brilliant and thoughtful and impeccably progressive and also high, and we got to the part (like ten minutes in only!) where ingrid bergman gets really mad, because cary grant abruptly got a cop to leave them alone after ingrid bergman was acting all insouciant and bad-girl about driving drunk, and because she now realizes that cary grant is some kind of cop himself and that the power dynamic is not what she thought, which in her drunken state causes her to Become Hysterical when cary grant insists on driving her home, and cary grant first karate-chops ingrid bergman's steering hand and then wrestles with her a bit and then hits her so hard she goes limp, and my gf turned to me in total rapt stoned melodramatic involvement and said with complete earnestness "movies used to be so exciting!"

lots of exciting stuff going on there obv but cary grant not irrelevant

anyway it is my favorite movie that isn't the third man

and Claude Rains.

ingrid bergman is also the dreamiest in that movie. they are the dreamiest dreamboats ever to dream.

louis calhern!

eating food in bed

all of the above, especially

who needs versatile anyway

Versatility is overrated. A spork is versatile.

― LISTEN TO THIS BRAD (Nicole), Thursday, August 2, 2012 11:49 AM (Yesterday)

Claude Rains is excellent in a little-seen David Lean film The Passionate Friends in which he plays a less milquetoast version of his Notorious role. I think it may be on youtube now.

TV Guide Magazine: What were your thoughts when you heard your movie Vertigo was picked as the greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound's poll of international film critics? It dethroned Citizen Kane!

Novak: [Laughs] I was just so grateful to be alive to witness it! And, of course, I was wishing Jimmy Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock could have been around, as well. They were both such magnificent men. How much that would have meant to both of them! Back when we made the film, none of us could have imagined it would have such longevity or acclaim. For all my misgivings about my life and choices in Hollywood, seeing Vertigo voted No. 1 made me think that maybe my trip was really worth it. Maybe I did have a certain amount of value.

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/reclusive-film-legend-kim-novak-opens-life-regrets-024000533.html

Did 'Vertigo' Introduce Computer Graphics to Cinema?

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/may/9/did-vertigo-introduce-computer-graphics-cinema/

i wish i liked this movie more. i keep waiting for an epiphany while i'm watching it. nope.

^

like it's good and all but i don't get emotionally involved in it

^^

it's one of those where the music swells and the actors are clearly feeling all sorts of important things and somewhere btwn them and me the dreaded sillies intervened, this movie is just silly

eff you, and wait til yer middle-aged

Middle-aged guy agreeing 100% with the late great (though not darraghmac).

That link is great, Morbs!

this is not really the kind of movie where its admirers get caught up in the plot and characters (at least i dont) but it does have a strong pull in its surface appeal--the music and hallucinatory way its edited. once that pulls you in the "important things" everyone is feeling starts to have meaning.

the late great otm.

Sux to be all of u.

Kim Novak always a stumbling block; however, I wish more steakhouses looked like Ernie's.

see, novak is almost the "flaw" or humanity of it that makes it real and approachable for me.

darraghmac, tlg, Sotosyn, youve all seen it in *a theater* at least once, yes?

Sux to be all of u.

― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Monday, May 13, 2013 10:09 AM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark

novak is amazing!

Sux to be all of u.

― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Monday, May 13, 2013 10:09 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i like the way this movie looks... the sunny version of mid-century san francisco it presents. rear window is better, i think. both are kind of ridiculous and overblown in their attempt to tackle "psychological" themes. i think it's cool how this movie and citzen kane and vertigo go back and forth on critics' "greatest movie" lists because both films seem to disdain the idea of subtlety, and i don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. they are ambitious hollywood productions.

subtlety is what closes on saturday night.

darraghmac, tlg, Sotosyn, youve all seen it in *a theater* at least once, yes?

in '96 before its VHS reissue. It's not a big deal. There's at least six other Hitch movies I'd watch again.

Can only think of 2 or 3 Hitchcocks I *wouldn't* see again.