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Revisiting Vertigo for the AFI ...
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"What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here:http://www.spout.com/blog s/pippin06/archive/2008/3/1/25 756.aspx Vertigo is on the following AFI lists:
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"Jeff Goldblum is at Telluride to promote his new film, Adam Resurrected, directed by Paul Schrader. The film follows the story of a Holocaust survivor who also happens to be a clown. Committed to an asylum after the war, he becomes a ring leader of sorts. On the opening day of the festival Goldblum was graciously hugging young fans and striking odd poses for snap-shots. We got a chance to ask him about his media intake, which includes a substantial amount homework from Schrader. Spout: What movies have you seen and enjoyed lately? Jeff Goldbloom: I’ve gone to the movies theaters recently and saw two movies I really enjoyed. The Woody Allen movie, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, I had a very very good time at that, loved that. Then I saw this documentary called Man on Wire. It’s really, really good, I enjoyed that to no end. Spout: Have you been watching anything lately on television that ha "
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One of my all time favourites
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"I watch it again every year or so..Vertigo made a big impression on me as a kid. I found the dream sequence very scary,having been allowed to stay up late to watch. It's obviously dated in some ways,but the new print/transfer to DVD is very beautiful,and has conserved a brilliantly rendered story. "
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AFI's 10 Top 10: Mystery
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"The mystery list is another one that seems poorly conceived. Unlike animation, “mystery” may be a genre, but the way it is defined and applied in the AFI list leads to a muddled selection of films.The AFI defines mystery as “a genre that revolves around the solution of a crime”. I'm not convinced that that adequately describes the films on the list, or, even if it does, it is absurdly reductive. Most ironically, the definition seems least appropriate when applied to the list's top selection, Vertigo (1958), which does not actually revolve around the solution of a crime at all, but a domestic mystery, and is really about Scottie's (Jimmy Stewart) inner-demons and obsessions in any event. Similar questions can be raised about other movies on this Top 10. For example, the second film on the list, Chinatown (1974), certainly starts with a mysterious murder, but part of the point of the film is that some “crimes” aren't illegal at all, and may even be facilitated by laws. The plot of T ... "
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"Star Wars may have the most famous opening title sequence in film history, but in terms of influence it’s got nothing on the work of Saul Bass. He’s the brilliant graphic designer who gave us the animated credits for Hitchcock’s Vertigo, North by Northwest and Psycho and Scorsese’s Casino, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence and Goodfellas and most of Otto Preminger’s work, including Exodus, Anatomy of a Murder and
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"Morbid fascination is not a critical phrase , just a descriptive one in this case.Star of the film is the guy in the black leather coat,who makes the most spectacular and well executed jump..5.9 from the U.K. judge....they save it untill the end. I found myself 'feeling sorry' for the Golden Gate Bridge...as this film unfolds ,it seems to take on an innocent ,noble character.Looking beautiful from many different angles.It is a truly iconic location,not least as a star in 'Vertigo'.Seriously,th is is truly compelling,as we hear from the friends and family of suicides,and ,notably from a 'failed' suicide..Couldnt help thinking ,that for a few dollars they could put a higher railing in... "
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Scorsese Shills For Wine
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"Martin Scorsese has never been shy about aligning himself with brands, but when the offer came in to shill Freixenet sparkling wine, he must have momentarily flashed back to Orson Welles’s Paul Mason commercials. There’s a difference between taking home a paycheck, and prostrating your legacy to a bald-faced, half-assed cash-in, remembered for all eternity via the YouTube dissemination of regrettable outtakes. It’s no wonder, then, that this elaborate Freixenet ad directed by and starring Scorsese barely announces itself as an ad until the final minute or so. The concept: Scorsese the tireless film preservationist finds three pages of an unproduced Alfred Hitchcock project called The Key to Reserva; Scorsese the filmmaker decides to film the pages “the way [Hitchcock] would be making it then, only making it now.” The ensuing short combines elements of
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"This is one that is usually more highly rated, but it’s more highly rated by people who are far older than me. I’m a huge Jimmy Stewart fan, so that’s why this one even makes it onto my radar in the first place. It’s a very psychological plot. By most accounts Hitchcock was nuttier than a fruitcake, and it shows in his films. Good thing he had a creative outlet for his neuroses, otherwise he may have been a serial killer or a lawyer. If you are under…ohhhh…..50 years of age, do yourself a favor and give Vertigo a whirl. It’s kinda like the book you are assigned to read for school and do so begrudgingly, only to find out that you rather enjoyed it. "
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VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
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"Dorothy Parker was once at a dress rehearsal for one of her plays when the director began bellowing for the leading lady to find herself a brassiere. “God no,” said Parker. “You’ve got to have something in this show that moves.”It is hard to imagine Hitch saying that, or anything like it, about Kim Novak’s famously free chest on the set of Vertigo (1958), but the truth is the same: her body is the single unrestrained exception in a picture that from its pacing to its scenery is meticulously controlled.
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