a thread for hitchcock's 'vertigo'

I like the interpretation that the nun blows him away.

well, then it mighta made ke1th u's list

I kid, but The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein was sooooo bad

That's very weird--I'd never seen that. (I was thinking it was some user-generated parody at first, concocted from DVD extra footage, and that something preposterous was going to be spliced in.)

but yeah, i mean, it could be because that original ending to me is absolutely all-time undefeatable, but the alternate ending is just ugh

Yeah, Hitch really stuck the landing with Vertigo.

but still Hitchcock put in a joke with the radio guy: students "pshing a cow up the steps"... just like Judy!

pUshing

pshaw-ing Judy ... maybe Cary Grant should've been cast after all

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My first argument with Morbs was when he shook his head after I called Cary Grant the greatest actor of the 20th century.

My first argument with Morbs

should be a thread

i like this movie more when i'm not watching it. the colors sure are pretty tho.

i like this movie more when i'm not watching it

Actually kinda sorta think this might be true of me too. In that sense, it's the counterpart to Rear Window, which is at its most awesome when you're actually watching it.

And you're later thinking, Grace Kelly is so hot for this guy?

No, more that Thelma Ritter works magic with her fingers.

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