Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958): Picturehouse Central, 2pm
This is part of the Picturehouse Cinemas Sight and Sound Top 10 season. Details here.
Here is all you need to know about Vertigo and more on the Cinephilia & Beyond website.
Chicago Reader review of Vertigo:
'One of the landmarks—not merely of the movies, but of 20th-century
art. Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film extends the theme of Rear Window—the
relationship of creator and creation—into the realm of love and
sexuality, focusing on an isolated, inspired romantic (James Stewart)
who pursues the spirit of a woman (the powerfully carnal Kim Novak). The
film's dynamics of chase, capture, and escape parallel the artist's
struggle with his work; the enraptured gaze of the Stewart character
before the phantom he has created parallels the spectator's position in
front of the movie screen. The famous motif of the fall is presented in
horizontal rather than vertical space, so that it becomes not a satanic
fall from grace, but a modernist fall into the image, into the artwork—a
total absorption of the creator by his creation, which in the end is
shown as synonymous with death. But a thematic analysis can only scratch
the surface of this extraordinarily dense and commanding film, perhaps
the most intensely personal movie to emerge from the Hollywood cinema.'
Dave Kehr
Here is the trailer
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