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Alfred Hitchcock tops his own fabulous record for suspense with Vertigo, a super-tale of murder, madness and mysticism that stars James Stewart and Kim Novak. Full Review | May 13, 2022
Hitchcock's romantic story of obsession, manipulation and fear. A detective is forced to retire after his fear of heights causes the death of a fellow officer and the girl he was hired to follow.
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- Alfred Hitchcock
- PG
- James Stewart
Jan 14, 2017 · Mostly, in a critical re-evaluation of Hitchcock’s career, critics and cinephiles have realized what a profoundly ahead-of-its-time movie it is. It’s moody, it’s romantic, it’s insane, it’s gorgeous, and it’s one-of-a-kind. Below are the eight reasons that Vertigo is Alfred Hitchcock’s unequivocal greatest film. 1.
- The 40-Year-Old Version. Radha Blank wrote, directed and starred in this cringe-comedy about an artist reaching a point in life where the need to make money brushes up against a desire for creative fulfillment.
- Atlantics. Director Mati Diop’s Cannes-winning feature debut is a dystopian gothic romance full of elegant, unforgettable imagery. Mama Sané plays a young, lower-class Senegalese woman whose lover drowns at sea while attempting to migrate to Spain, and her ensuing emotional disarray manifests in a series of strange happenings.
- Amazing Grace. The fact that it’s possible to watch Sydney Pollack’s absolutely electrifying documentary of Aretha Franklin recording her gospel album of the same name at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles is a miracle twice over: first, because the footage wasn’t properly synchronized when Pollack and his crew shot it in 1972, and it was assumed that could never be corrected.
- The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography. Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris (The Fog Of War) spends some time in Boston with his old friend Elsa, who specializes in intimate, vivid large-format Polaroid portraits – and who now sees her specialization threatened by the death of traditional photography.
Vertigo is the greatest motion picture of all time. Or so say the results of the latest round of respected film magazine Sight & Sound ’s long-running critics poll, in which Alfred Hitchcock’s James Stewart- and Kim Novak- (and San Francisco-) starring psychological thriller unseated Citizen ...
Oct 13, 1996 · “Vertigo” (1958), which is one of the two or three best films Hitchcock ever made, is the most confessional, dealing directly with the themes that controlled his art. It is *about* how Hitchcock used, feared and tried to control women.
May 9, 2023 · “Vertigo” — warning: spoilers ensue — tells the story of John “Scottie” Ferguson (James Stewart), a retired police detective with a fear of heights.
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