Vertigo (1958; Dir.: Alfred Hitchcock)
Canon Fodder Episode 36
Daniel and Corky take a dizzying road trip through the streets of San Francisco in pursuit of Alfred Hitchcock’s mysterious and alluring Vertigo. Although neglected in its day, Vertigo famously knocked Citizen Kane off the top spot of the Sight & Sound poll in 2012. But did your hosts feel that this story of doppelgängers was a doppel-banger?
Elsewhere, Daniel offers his thoughts on Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett in Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag.
VERTIGO FACTS & FIGURES
Sight & Sound  2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #2
World premiere: May 1958
IMDB synopsis: “A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.”
CLIPS & CLIPPINGS
Trailer for Vertigo
Scottie’s nightmare
Dusk at Argosy Bookshop
Flower shop male gaze
NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE
Cries & Whispers (1972; Dir.: Ingmar Bergman)
IMDB synopsis: “When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.”
Our review of Cries & Whispers comes out on May 6!
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