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Summary: Obsessionally fascinating
Review: One of the best Hitchcock's movies, and even one of the best films ever made (my favourite one). The intrigue is great, the actors are perfect and Kim Novak is -almost obessionally- fascinating. I highly recommend this DVD, one that you must definitively have in your collection.
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Summary: Obsessionally fascinating
Review: One of the best Hitchcock's movie, and even one of the best film ever made (my favourite one). The intrigue is great, the actors are perfect and Kim Novak is -almost obessionally- fascinating. I highly recommend this DVD, one that you must definitively have in your collection.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: I can't say how cool this movie is. It is eerie, suspensful, and just all around good. It gets better every time you see it.
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Summary: Highly Overrated. Don't expect much from it.
Review: This movie must be one of the most highly overrated movie. I liked Hitchcock's Psycho very much but was totally dissapointed with this one. To begin with, the movie is very slow. It is unnecessarily lengthy and the story is unbelievable. I am not surprised at all that this movie bombed at box office when originally released. Overall, a very overrated movie. Gets 2 stars because of good acting.
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Summary: Painfully Personal
Review: A painfully personal work of beauty from one of the most underrated artists of our times...apart from its well-known, much discussed themes of love, obsession, death, loneliness, guilt, etc, it is, on the surface (and please watch the restored version!) too, such a gorgeous-to-look-at film. It's almost as if you can sense Hitchcock agonising over every single shot, knowing that each in moment, each nuance, he was revealing the real himself to his audience like he never would at any other point in his career. James Stewart's extraordinary (and astonishingly daring, given the actor's image) performance, one of the greatest in the history of the medium; Kim Novak, whose role is so complex and multi-layered that it's easy to be ambivalent about her performance (as Hitch himself surely was) but whose work here is considered by many to be the finest of her career; Herrmann's haunting score, one of the greatest (and most appropriate) ever composed for film; and above all else, one of 20th century art's most important personalities at his most intimate. Unlike a lot of Hitchcock's more commercial works, this is a film that is easier to admire from a distance than to actually count as a personal favourite - but either way, it's a deeply rewarding watch for anyone who's not afraid to open themselves to it fully.
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Summary: I must be thick
Review: Why is this interminable film so highly regarded? We do a lot of driving around. We climb lots of staircases that are filmed from weird angles. We get some classic shots of San Francisco. We get a story line that's implausible but which is gussied up to respectability by the use of terms such as "obsessional". We learn in the DVD bonus material that Hitchcock actually used a metronome to pace Kim Novak's final traipse up those wooden stairs from which she takes her biiiiiiig step. I reckon Hitchcock used the metronome throughout the movie and set to its slowest possible speed. Slow pace = suspense. Doesn't it? Yeh, I must be really thick.
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Summary: Absolutely Hypnotic!
Review: Vertigo is definitly one of those movies you can watch more than one time, in fact it's much better if you watch it more than once. The first time I watched it I was much more interested in the plot, after I knew how it would end I started watching the mechanics of this movie. James Stewart gives the performance of his life as the detective suffering from "vertigo" and obsessed with Madeline, the wife of the friend who has hired him to follow her. Kim Novak is equally wonderful. No wonder Ms. Novak has always said that Jimmy Stewart was her favorite leading man. They are absolutely hypnotic on screen. Hitch was defintly on top of his game in this his most personal movie. If you haven't seen this Vertigo watch it and if you have...watch it again!
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Summary: More Twists Than Lombard Street!
Review: This is THE Masterpiece by The Master of Suspense! -- James Stewart and Kim Novac are perfectly teamed as the detective with chronic vertigo (stemming from a life & death experience of an assignment) and the beautiful woman of mystery who seeks his help. -- Many twist and turns insure the viewer a "bumpy ride'. So fasten your seatbelt and enjoy this gem!
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Summary: Vertigo: Hitchcock Climbs the Misson Tower
Review: It is a funny thing about great movies, your favorite films, and polls of the greatest films every made. If you have a Top Ten, at least one Alfred Hitchcock has to be there with all the other masterpieces of the cinema. The ultimate story of obsession and guilt, Vertigo works on many levels. What really matters is that this film succeeds on every level. Visually gorgeously shot in and around San Francisco, this city has never looked so good as a background for a film. With its alternately bright days and lurking nights we see shifting moods and points of view. Lots of bright sunlight and dark shadows. The acting is superb. James Stewart, as the guilt-wracked detective, shows us his darker side and he has never been better. Kim Novak is a revelation in double roles. And the costumes. That gray suit! Watch movies such as Marnie, where Tippi Hedren has a gray suit on and blonde hair pinned up into a twist like Novak and you begin to think about Hitchcock's obsessions. There are so many "classic" scenes, the beginning (How in God's name did Stewart, dangling from the high building gutter, get to safety?) Was the rest of the movie his last thoughts and dream before dying? The spinning love scene that is sensual but ominous at the same time, the final remaking of Judy, slowly walking out of a greenish fog of fantasy, transformed back into Scotty's dead dream girl. And then all of this set to the haunting, beautiful music of Bernard Herrman, who was at the height of his music powers with Vertigo.It is also a brilliant study of place. Highly recommended in this wonderful restoration with footage showing how Vertigo was restored, with fascinating interviews with those intimately involved in the making of both versions of Vertigo. This is one of my favorite films, one of the best American flims ever made, and stands high with any made in the world. A true work of art.
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Summary: Masterpiece Of The Master
Review: One of Hitchcock's two best movies and one of the ten best movies of all time. James Stewart gives an incredible performance of a man and his obsession. Kim Novak is perfectly cast as the mysterious woman of Stewart's dreams. It is frightening how Stewart's obsessions affect those around him and Hitchcock is masterful in pulling it off in a way that seems natural and compelling. The landmark shots of San Francisco in the 50s are wonderful, just as I remembered it! This and Rear Window are keepers and ones that you will want to watch again and again.
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