a thread for hitchcock's 'vertigo'

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)

Doesn't Les Diaboliques come before Vertigo?

The museum sequence in Dressed to Kill.

they included some movies earlier than Vertigo, so "engagement" applies before and after

XP The source novel for Diabolique was written by the same guys who wrote the Vertigo novel.

yes!

i'm thinking no one guessed Pal Joey.

Nope. Think it may be time to peek

go ahead, i was not meaning to make it a contest.

no memory of the Demme film included.

I just bought this yesterday for $1 on VHS, going to watch it towards the end of the week. Excited!

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

some more (not included) films that engage with vertigo in my mind:
solaris
not just mulholland drive but twin peaks, lost highway, inland empire, etc
that obscure object of desire
the double life of veronique
exotica
in the mood for love/ 2046
black orpheus
last year at marienbad
postman always rings twice
the third man
peeping tom

The museum sequence in Dressed to Kill.
not really crazy about dressed to kill, but man, that sequence justifies its existence.

this movie is insane

key to its greatness

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.

even before AIDS! (purposefully morbid and offensive)

Scottie is p much his own antagonist.

Not in my top five but Stewart is bonkers

the line where theater audiences tend to produce a sickened laugh is "Judy, it can't matter to you."

Scottie is p much his own antagonist.

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!)

sometimes I walk around muttering YOU WERE A VERY APT PUPIL

Muttering? He SPITS that line out ... twice!

My favorite Hitch is Rear Window, but this is the closest runner up.

But I don't spit...movie lines.

Remind me to tell you about the time I swallowed the heart of an artichoke.

*pushes Eric off bell tower*

calm down guys

there's something about all the static framing in Rear Window that I just don't enjoy watching. Probably a result of never having seen it on the big screen, but in general it's a film where the formal conceit - I'm watching a film about watching things! - turns out to be more appealing in theory than in execution.