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Vertigo

Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock


  • Country: USA
  • Year: 1958
  • Language: English
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  • Runtime: 128 min.

"One of the landmarks—not merely of the movies, but of twentieth-century art" (Dave Kehr), Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of erotic fixation eschews the comic-thriller mode that he had made his own for a deeper brand of suspense: that of a "normal" mind slowly revealing its dark recesses and uncontrollable compulsions.

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screening times

    • Friday October 15
    • 6:30:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox Cinema 4
    • Wednesday October 20
    • 8:45:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

official description

"One of the landmarks—not merely of the movies, but of twentieth-century art" (Dave Kehr), Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of erotic fixation eschews the comic-thriller mode that he had made his own for a deeper brand of suspense: that of a "normal" mind slowly revealing its dark recesses and uncontrollable compulsions. A former San Francisco police detective (James Stewart) with a crippling fear of heights is hired to follow an old friend's supposedly suicidal wife (Kim Novak). Quickly falling in love with this blonde goddess, he loses her with equal speed—until he seems to find her again in a brunette shopgirl (Novak again) whom he tries to remake in the image of his lost love. "[Vertigo's] profundity is inseparable from the perfection of [its] form: it is a perfect organism, each character, each sequence, each image illuminating every other" (Robin Wood).

Thanks to May Haduong, Academy Film Archive.

Print courtesy of the ConstellationCenter Collection at the Academy Film Archive.

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