a thread for hitchcock's 'vertigo'

i'm glad that ending isn't in the actual film but i dunno, i'm sort of glad it exists

saw a 70MM print of this last night on a double bill with De Palma's "Body Double" for my birthday and sure enough

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

this happened

Vertigo is one of the few films that does actually get better with every viewing.

had no idea about the alternate ending posted upthread, that's nuts. Excluding Midge from the back half makes it much more removed from reality.

i think "judy, it can't matter to you" prob struck audiences as messed up even at the time

Didn't Cary Grant say something about Judy in one of his films as well?

"Vertigo" is one of my all-time favorites. Thread reminds me that I have to ask for this back from someone who borrowed it years ago and moved provinces. :-/

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

― the late great, Monday, May 13, 2013 12:49 AM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

saw Vertigo for the first time last night and this is exactly how i feel. time to read some wonky academic essays about it.

do you believe that someone out of the past -- someone dead -- can enter, and take possession, of a living being?

this movie creeps into your soul more than it wows you on first viewing.

agreed, then one day you wake up and

http://images.popmatters.com/features_art/e/ending-vertigo-1.jpg

i think ryan's probably right but i also think a first viewing in the right frame of mind should be more than sufficiently soul-wrenching

^^^ lol DN

1st viewing clicked for me this movie is a mind blowing proto-Mulholland Drive visual tone poem/psycho drama.

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whats not to like about this? at the very least it is stylistic as heck

does flappy bird have any correct opinions

i have been to a bunch, incl the cemetery

https://sf.curbed.com/maps/a-carefully-plotted-totally-stalky-map-of-hitchcocks-vertigo

https://i.imgur.com/kB3vkq6.png

he's a fucking vampire!

(or a projector. or a director)

(repeat of the art museum tableau in which she stares at a two-dimensional version of herself designed by a man while he stands behind her, first as curious audience then as evil auteur)

Rewatched yesterday in DCP theater showing, followed by this:

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/film-week-green-fog/

There's a very funny meta Michael Douglas ass joke.

a friend the other day: "what's that movie-- the one about the blonde?"

(if we'd already been talking about hitchcofk

--i would have had to have been like lol be more specific, but we weren't, so I was like, ...vertigo?)

Judy's not a blonde

death, tho

First released sixty years ago today

xxp first draft Ramones tune

Lol

More vital and fascinating than any other Hitchcock maybe because it's the one where he seems least in control of the ideas.

― ryan, Wednesday, August 1, 2012 9:22 PM (five years ago)

So otm. I'd say the same about Shadow of a Doubt.

I can get with that. My other fave Hitchcock, Rear Window, is the mirror image, where he's most in control of the ideas.

I'm not sure he's not utterly in control here, just because to Truffaut he led with "He wants to go to bed with a girl who's dead."

I'd say he's more of a loss in Marnie, which many of you like.

of = at

nobody's in charge of the ideas in Suspicion

yet Cary Grant can be in charge of my ideas

Cary Grant can charge for his ideas

this thread always reminds me that an ex-friend who fucked off to toronto still has this DVD

gotta rectify that

fling him off bell tower imo

tell him "it can't matter to ya"

it's too late

I haven't re-read my posts from January 2017 when I first saw Vertigo, but I have done a total 180 on it, it's brilliant and hypnotic and seems to exist outside of time, in a way unlike any other film I've ever seen. Second only to Shadow of a Doubt for my favorite Hitchcock. I was nonplussed when I saw it for the first time, and last night was only the second time I'd seen it. but it'd stuck in my mind for a year and a half. I also think some of the key themes are more resonant with me now.

Wazzabout this intriguing giallo take on Vertigo currently showing on MUBI, One One on Top of the Other?

Ah Alfred you gave me a good laugh

Cheers my
Friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tesqTwX7cpc

just watching youtube and revisited this scene and it is so Twin Peaks! especially at .5 speed (try it!). this scene is the transformation of Kim Novak's character into someone with a new identity.

visually it kind of feels like a formal precursor to the Black Lodge, with green curtains instead of red. Jimmy Stewart trapped framed in that menacing backdrop, the music building to a dramatic crescendo, the minor key melancholy eeriness of it all. def see this movie if you are a fan of Twin Peaks/Mulholland Drive.

this is a good list of influences
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/twin-peaks-david-lynch-influences

"Green Fog" is showing at the local cinema this weekend. (Guy Maddin's Vertigo remake made with misc. clips from various SF-based films.) Might check it out, esp. since it's playing with the Hitchcock version as a double-bill.

It's fun, and at only 65 minutes should make a good second half of a double feature

(even better as a first, but not for Vertigo virgins)

yes, it's good

i think Lynch even intro'd Vertigo at the IFC Center once

Scotty is one sick fuck