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  1. May 5, 2016 · An acquaintance named Gavin Elster hires Scottie, now a private eye, to follow his wife Madeline (played by Kim Novak) and find out why she’s acting so strangely. From there on, you get classic ...

  2. Jan 14, 2017 · Below are the eight reasons that Vertigo is Alfred Hitchcock’s unequivocal greatest film. 1. Jimmy Stewart. The star of such films as The Philadelphia Story, Harvey, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It’s a Wonderful Life is famous for being a humble, generous Everyman in the majority of his films.

  3. 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 Kane from the top spot.

  4. Aug 22, 2021 · Vertigo is a film put together by creatives operating at the peaks of their power, and it comes through in every frame. Vertigo Movie Explained The legacy of Vertigo. To this day, Vertigo looms large over filmmakers. It’s been declared the greatest film of all time by Sight & Sound, largely considered to be the most definitive ranking of the ...

  5. Jul 13, 2018 · That such an institution has evolved is not surprising, for the movie holds a singular power to contaminate viewers with its own quality of dreamy obsession. Hitchcock’s best critic Robin Wood describes the San Francisco locations as “little pockets of silence and solitude”, both attaching to the city and somehow outside it.

  6. Vertigo was responsible for the popularization of the so-called ‘Vertigo effect’ [the dolly zoom] — the trademark shot that creates the effect of Scottie’s [James Stewart’s] acrophobia (falling away from yourself),” says Oliver Lyttleton of Indiewire. The effect of the technique is that the viewer seems to fall infinitely while ...

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  8. May 20, 2019 · The History of Vertigo. Vertigo was released in 1958. The movie starred Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak. The movie was thrilling and weird. It came with a Bernard Herrman score and had a poster done by Saul Bass. Credit: Mubi. Even though its reception was mediocre, it made $7,705,225 at the domestic box office according to Box Office Mojo. It was ...

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