a thread for hitchcock's 'vertigo'

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.

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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.

I think Teddy Roosevelt is winking at you....

There's at least six other Hitch movies I'd watch again.

Well, there are at least six English professors I'd marry ahead of you.

well, i would have seen her, you know! i've been right here all the time putting olive oil on my rubber plant leaves.

there's only one veritgo for me: http://bit.ly/8RqSDk

also I like the interp that Scottie jumps to his death right after the fadeout.

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, August 2, 2012 3:49 AM (1 year ago)

haha morbs don't you also think this is how "it's a wonderful life" should have ended?

i think i prefer that last shot to the scream

also lol

if only "the searchers" had ended with john wayne shooting his niece

I would LOVE to have eaten at Ernie's. Hitch shoots that place more attractively than any woman.

anyway dud

i just wanna hang out in midge's apartment

"midge"

theory: any fictional character named 'midge' is inevitably adorable

http://www.archiefans.com/gallery/d/15365-1/Midge+1+BV+55+Jul+1960.jpg

only in "Dallas"

part of the problem is you people thinking Kim Novak is an attractive man

"you people"

don't listen to dlh: he was "rescreening" "Zizek."

a do-it-yourself type thing

a 30-film Brooklyn fest of movies that "engage" Vertigo

(before clicking, guess as many as you can)

http://www.bam.org/film/2015/the-vertigo-effect

The lack of Les Diaboliques there seems the most obvious omission

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/13/alfred-hitchcock-peter-ackroyd-michael-wood-review

two new bks.

A former ILXer gives the Ackroyd book a brutal review in the latest Sight and Sound

a 30-film Brooklyn fest of movies that "engage" Vertigo

more (at least in my mind):
antonioni l’avventura
wenders paris texas
hitchcock rebecca
almodovar broken embraces, talk to her, skin i live in, etc

Don't forget La Jetée and, more obviously Twelve Monkeys.

and High Anxiety

Ah yes.

Don't forget La Jetée and, more obviously Twelve Monkeys.

― You Play The Redd And The Blecch Comes Up (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, April 13, 2015 6:11 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and High Anxiety

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, April 13, 2015 6:12 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

absolutely. those are included (i already clicked, so i'm not guessing)