Vertigo

Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest films (and, according to Hitchcock, his most personal one), this adaptation of the French novel D'entre les morts weaves an intricate web of obsession and deceit. It opens as Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) ...more

Vertigo is Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece. It's his Mona Lisa. It's his Sistine Chapel. It's his undying, inimitable cinematic symphony. No other director would chronicle one lonely man's descent into madness this poignantly until Martin Scorsese would with Taxi Driver in 1976. Vertigo was ahead of its time in terms of cinematography, coloring, plot, acting, and music composition. Every element contributed to birthing an isolationist masterwork that's so terrifying it's beautiful. Vertigo defies ...more

Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest films (and, according to Hitchcock, his most personal one), this adaptation of the French novel D'entre les morts weaves an intricate web of obsession and deceit. It opens as Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) realizes he has vertigo, a condition resulting in a fear of heights, when a police officer is killed trying to rescue him from falling off a building. Scottie then retires from his position as a ...more