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
― horseshoe, Monday, 13 May 2013 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
subtlety is what closes on saturday night.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 00:14 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
Can only think of 2 or 3 Hitchcocks I *wouldn't* see again.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
well, i would have seen her, you know! i've been right here all the time putting olive oil on my rubber plant leaves.
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 3 August 2013 22:47 (ten years ago) link
there's only one veritgo for me: http://bit.ly/8RqSDk
― markers, Saturday, 3 August 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
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?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
i think i prefer that last shot to the scream
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:28 (ten years ago) link
also lol
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
if only "the searchers" had ended with john wayne shooting his niece
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
I would LOVE to have eaten at Ernie's. Hitch shoots that place more attractively than any woman.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
anyway dud
i just wanna hang out in midge's apartment
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
"midge"
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link
theory: any fictional character named 'midge' is inevitably adorable
http://www.archiefans.com/gallery/d/15365-1/Midge+1+BV+55+Jul+1960.jpg
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
only in "Dallas"
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:36 (ten years ago) link
part of the problem is you people thinking Kim Novak is an attractive man
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
"you people"
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:45 (ten years ago) link
don't listen to dlh: he was "rescreening" "Zizek."
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 August 2013 23:50 (ten years ago) link
a do-it-yourself type thing
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 4 August 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
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 increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 April 2015 12:25 (nine years ago) link
The lack of Les Diaboliques there seems the most obvious omission
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 13 April 2015 12:27 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/13/alfred-hitchcock-peter-ackroyd-michael-wood-review
two new bks.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 13 April 2015 12:28 (nine years ago) link
A former ILXer gives the Ackroyd book a brutal review in the latest Sight and Sound
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 13 April 2015 12:29 (nine years ago) link
more (at least in my mind):antonioni l’avventurawenders paris texashitchcock rebeccaalmodovar broken embraces, talk to her, skin i live in, etc
― drash, Monday, 13 April 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
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, 13 April 2015 22:11 (nine years ago) link
and High Anxiety
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 April 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
Ah yes.
― You Play The Redd And The Blecch Comes Up (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 April 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link
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 Permalinkand High Anxiety― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, April 13, 2015 6:12 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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
― 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)
― drash, Monday, 13 April 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
Doesn't Les Diaboliques come before Vertigo?
The museum sequence in Dressed to Kill.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 April 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
they included some movies earlier than Vertigo, so "engagement" applies before and after
― drash, Monday, 13 April 2015 22:51 (nine years ago) link
XP The source novel for Diabolique was written by the same guys who wrote the Vertigo novel.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 April 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
yes!
i'm thinking no one guessed Pal Joey.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 01:05 (nine years ago) link
Nope. Think it may be time to peek
― You Play The Redd And The Blecch Comes Up (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 01:44 (nine years ago) link
go ahead, i was not meaning to make it a contest.
no memory of the Demme film included.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 01:48 (nine years ago) link
I just bought this yesterday for $1 on VHS, going to watch it towards the end of the week. Excited!
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 01:50 (nine years ago) link
More on this series below... I wish Legend of Lylah Clare was in it. btw The Joy of Life is a must.
http://bam150years.blogspot.de/2015/04/filmmakers-film-vertigo.html
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
some more (not included) films that engage with vertigo in my mind:solarisnot just mulholland drive but twin peaks, lost highway, inland empire, etcthat obscure object of desirethe double life of veronique exoticain the mood for love/ 2046black orpheus last year at marienbadpostman always rings twicethe third manpeeping tom
― drash, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
The museum sequence in Dressed to Kill.not really crazy about dressed to kill, but man, that sequence justifies its existence.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 22:27 (nine years ago) link
this movie is insane
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 October 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link
key to its greatness
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 October 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
idk if I would rate it my favorite Hitchcock - that's probably Psycho, or maybe Rebecca. Having never seen it start-to-finish before last night I was shocked by how unrelentingly bleak it is, how there's no real protagonist or antagonist, the degree to which it just seems relentlessly morbid and nihilistic.
also man SF used to be a lot less crowded, apparently.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 October 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
even before AIDS! (purposefully morbid and offensive)
Scottie is p much his own antagonist.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 October 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
Not in my top five but Stewart is bonkers
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 October 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
the line where theater audiences tend to produce a sickened laugh is "Judy, it can't matter to you."
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 October 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
this is how I started to feel about halfway through the film when his stalkerish obsessive craziness really starts to make him look unhinged. by the end I was practically expecting him to throw her out of the tower (which in some ways does sort of happen - man kills the thing he loves, twice!)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 October 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
sometimes I walk around muttering YOU WERE A VERY APT PUPIL
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 October 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
Muttering? He SPITS that line out ... twice!
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 October 2015 17:16 (eight years ago) link