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Summary: Vertigo's Mini-Mysteries
Review: This is what most intrigued me about Vertigo: Scottie follows Madeleine to the McKittrick Hotel and sees her in the second floor window. He enters and questions the hotel manageress, who tells him the woman for whom he is looking is named Carlotta Valdes, and that she "comes to sit two or three times a week." Then she adds, "...she hasn't appeared today." Scottie says he saw her enter a few minutes ago, but the manageress sticks to her story. "...her key is in the rack," she says. Then she takes a bewildered Scottie to Carlotta's or Madeleine's room--and it's empty. Where did she go? It's perhaps the film's strangest moment, because Madeleine/Carlotta has apparently disappeared. (Where did she go? Or is she a figment of Scottie's troubled mind?) It's similar to the opening scene,when Scottie and a uniformed policeman unsuccessfully chase a fugitive across a roof top. Scottie slips. His colleague tries to save him, loses his balance, and falls to his death. Frozen with fear, Scottie is left hanging from a creaking drainpipe. How was he rescued? It seems impossible for him to have gotten down. Hitchcock simply cuts away while Scottie (and the viewer as well) is left dangling in mid-air. Those are two of the unresolved, mini-mysteries that make Vertigo so fascinating.
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Summary: Fantastic Movie!!!
Review: This movie kept me thinking about it long after watching it. The camera angles, dialog, acting filled me with various emotions of awe, bewilderment, confusion, tenseness, fear, etc. Not too many movies made that much of an impact on me like this one. Hitchcock did a sensational job.
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Summary: Great movie not the best DVD
Review: Vertigo is one of my all time classic movies and I really enjoyed watching the restored version. But the DVD sould have been in anamorphic widescreen and the Dolby Digital conversion from the DTS has left out the LFE channel so it's only in 5.0 not 5.1
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Summary: One of Hitchcock's greatest achievements
Review: I thought that Vertigo ranks number one on my Alfred Hitchcock list. I thought that the begining was the best part where James Stewart was about to fall off the roof of the building. The part where James Stewart sees Kim Novak jump off the tower was the part where I thought that he was going to kill himself also. I think that everyone should see this movie just once.
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Summary: Wonderful! Keeps you on the edge of your seat!!!
Review: When I first saw this movie two years ago I was confussed and dumbfounded. But I had gotten up many times throughout the movie which was a huge mistake! Then I rented it again a year later and watched it with full atteintion. When it was over I was mesmorized by the haunting tale. Every time I watch it I think how sad it is that when it was first released in 1958 people said that it was Hitchcock's worst film! What a let down for Hitchcock, Jimmy Stuwart, Kim Novak and the rest of the crew. All the time spent on that film and in the end people hated it. Luckily as time went on people watched it again and realized that it was a great and important film. Back it 1958 people wanted happy endings and many times Hitchcock wanted a differnet ending. Example Suspician. When he finally got what he wanted people put him down for his different and amazing ideas. I think he had every right to change his ending the way he wanted it. He is the Director! I'm gald that people are recognizing this film!
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Summary: Excellent movie but restoration is lacking.
Review: This is one of the best movies of all time. However I have a 16x9 widescreen TV and this special edition DVD is not enhanced for 16x9 TVs!
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Summary: The Best Film I Have Ever Seen!
Review: I was fifteen years old and on the eve of starting my first high school football game. I couldn't sleep from nervousness. So I went into the living room and flipped the television on. I then saw the movie of my life; the one film that would for the next 35 years (and beyond)haunt and thrill me upon each and every viewing.Jimmy Stewart was the best actor ever to live. And Kim Novack was and is a stunning beauty. Neither had been as good as they were together in this magnificent film, which I have seen over and over. When I received a copy of the remastered, widescreen version as a gift several years ago, I thought I was in movie heaven. That is saying something from a person who aspires to become a late-in-life movie critic, and who owns over 200 movies on video tape. One finds it difficult to limit a review of such a masterpiece as "Vertigo" to 1000 words. Mr. Hitchcock is at his all time best with the work he did on this movie. He went as far as to redefine suspense. He had the script changed from the original novel on which it was based to add to that suspense. In the novel, the reader shares the ignorance of Scottie by not knowing that Judy is in reality the Madeleine that he knew. By making the viewer aware of that fact heightens the viewer's level of suspense as, with each change that Scottie makes to Judy, we wonder if, and when he will find out. Then, we wonder what he will do if he does. The color, the story, the directing, the haunting music, all make this the best movie ever made.
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Summary: Breathtaking
Review: The restoration is excellent; I've never seen such vivid colors or a crystalline soundtrack on a Hitchcock film. The only description I can give is mesmerizing. It's at its hypnotic best when the audio-visuals replace the dialogue. I can't express how much this film moved me.
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Summary: My favorite movie
Review: Vertigo is in my oppinion Hitchcock's best work. It has some of the most revolutionary cinematography ever, and the plot is brilliantly engineered and twisted like a licorice stick. Additionally, The score is one of Bernard Herrmann's best, and with superb performances by James Stewart and Kim Novak this movie is the opitomy of perfection in cinema
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Summary: Terrific film, DVD could be better
Review: The film and restoration are wonderful. I give the film five stars and the restoration four stars (had more money been spent for some digital techniques, the restoration could have been marginally better). The DVD uses matted widescreen instead of anamorphic widescreen. The film was restored with DTS sound, yet the DVD is only offered in Dolby Digital. What gives? In a "Special Edition" of a restored film, ALL possible features should be offered on a DVD. This DVD is lacking important features and should NOT receive five stars.
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