at the beginning is pretty frelling amazing too.
Oh yes. I was a little uninterested in it when my roommate at the time rented it. But between that first shot, quickly followed by the sequence where one of the cannons they were humping over the peaks of the Andes was too heavy for the ground beneath it, and the cannon (and crew, I think) plunged thousands of feet into the jungle below, I was hooked.
Though the end of Vertigo (which I saw in its theatrical re-release) made me yell something like, "No way!"
I've forgotten the exact ending, but I remember being very dissatisfied with Vertigo, as I had watched it after several other Hitchcock films, and thinking it much weaker than the other films I'd seen.
Wikipedia agrees that Vertigo ends on the bell tower, but I thought it ended in some kind of hearing room, like the wrap-up in Psycho. Maybe I am mixing up my Vertigo scenes.
I've forgotten the exact ending, but I remember being very dissatisfied with Vertigo, as I had watched it after several other Hitchcock films, and thinking it much weaker than the other films I'd seen.
Pfft. This is a silly opinion.
Of course
Vertigo
is a very weird movie that makes very little sense. But it is all about the dream logic and Hitch leaving all his creepy obsessions up on the screen.
Naturally, it is my favorite Hitchcock movie, though I'm also very partial to
Strangers on a Train, Shadow of a Doubt,
and
Rear Window.
Vertigo is one of my top five, but I think its pace makes it not for everyone (see also Eyes Wide Shut).
Pfft. This is a silly opinion.
In my own defense, I think I was about seventeen at the time, so there are many subtleties in lots of art that I missed at the time (see: Kurt Vonnegut).
Of course Vertigo is a very weird movie that makes very little sense. But it is all about the dream logic and Hitch leaving all his creepy obsessions up on the screen.
I shall have to watch it again and see how my opinion of the film changes.
Both scenes are featured in My Best Fiend, so maybe I don't have to see it!
There's plenty of good stuff in between. I've been meaning to buy it on DVD for ages, but just hadn't thought of it when I was actively in shopping mode.
I shall have to watch it again and see how my opinion of the film changes.
Think of it as a David Lynch film instead of a plotty Hitchcock film.
Mulholland Drive owes very obvious debts to Vertigo anyway.
Of course Vertigo is a very weird movie that makes very little sense. But it is all about the dream logic and Hitch leaving all his creepy obsessions up on the screen.
It is decidedly a movie you do NOT want to see with a bunch of psych majors, I can say. Even I was mocking it, and I love it, but as a pschological profile, I think it says more about Hitch than any of the characters in the movie.
Not so surprisingly, aside from my additional love of PSYCHO and NOTORIOUS, Hec's favorites are mine for Sir Alfred.
Favorite Hitchcocks:
1.
Rear Window
2.
The Lady Vanishes
3.
Suspicion
4.
Strangers on a Train
5.
Notorious
6.
The 39 Steps
7.
Rebecca
8.
Psycho
9.
To Catch a Thief
10.
North by Northwest
I really loved Fitzcarraldo when I saw it, but I was 20 or so and not as discerning as I am now. Aguirre is an incredible movie, though. The Herzog/Kinski remake of Nosferatu isn't bad, either, but it doesn't hold a candle to the original.
