Have YOU Got VERTIGO?

Advantages: One of Hitchcock's best
Disadvantages: Minor plot holes

...Vertigo is a pretty famous Alfred Hitchcock film. It was released in 1958 and starred James Stewart and Kim Novak with support from Barbara Bel Geddes (who went on to famously play Miss Ellie Ewing in Dallas for a decade or so) and Tom Helmore. John Ferguson (Scottie) is a retired police officer who developed vertigo during a chase when a colleague fell to his death from a rooftop. He has severe vertigo and it causes some complications in his life but he is able to live with it. An old friend from college hires Scottie as a private detective to follow his wife Madeline who he believes is possessed by the spirit of someone who died 100 years ago and on the verge of committing suicide. Scottie becomes obsessed with Madeline as he follows her around and somehow falls madly in love with her. She commits suicide from the bell...

anonymili 07.10.2008 · Read review
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VERTIGO

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Hello Hello... at a place called Vertigo

Advantages: Fantastic quality live show.
Disadvantages: Could feature more insight.

...a little disappointing with the exception of the "Beyond the Tour" documentary that includes some great interviews with Vertigo Tour personnel like manager Paul McGuinness, production director Jake Berry, Williams and, most interesting of all, an interview filmed in what appears to be a men's restroom with Gavin Friday (consultant/tour midwife). The documentary also features fan interviews the documentary shows a clip of U2 rehearsing "Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl" prior to the May 10th show, Bono's 45th birthday. I also found the choices of songs played during the documentary interesting as well?"Crumbs from Your Table," "Lady with the Spinning Head," "Please" and "Acrobat" can be heard as backing tracks, all songs that any diehard U2 fan would love to hear live. It's nice to know someone in the U2 organization has a sick sense of humor...

wildhoney 13.07.2007 · Read review
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Hitchcock's Vertigo: Film as a Cultural Practice

Advantages: Brilliant classic
Disadvantages: Maybe a bit slow and dated

...Every film is a product of its times. No film can be wholly appreciated and given due analysis without delving deeper into the social and cultural background in which it was produced. This is even more so when confronted with a piece by Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. Only by immersing and understanding the cultural context, is one able to relive the Hitchcock experience in Vertigo. In this essay, I seek to provide a more complete overview by looking through the glasses of the period in which it was made and making a comparative study by contrasting the past with the standpoint perspective of the present. Social Backdrop Vertigo was made in 1958, in the midst of great class, racial and gender revolutions in America. Victory in World War II had not brought to her people a feeling of triumph, but instead had created "a...

playera13 01.02.2006 · Read review
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A true vertigo of bliss.

Advantages: most original, distinctive, class
Disadvantages: starts off a little weak.

...Biffy Clyro, Possibly the hardest working UK band around at the moment, and arguably one of the most underrated UK bands around at the moment. In my opinion, Biffy Clyro are truly amazing, and I will warn you off that before I write this review and just go on about how totally in love I am with the music this band writes. Ok so The Vertigo of Bliss, Biffy Clyro's second album released, released the following year to the bands debut Blackened Sky, impressive on it's own, but the fact that it's a stunning album, way above par of whatever else is flowin around at the moment, is an amazing feat. If you do not own a Biffy Clyro album. Even though this is probably my favourite out of the 3 at the moment, I wouldn't reccomend this one as the first buy as it takes longer to get into than the other 2, and most listeners to new bands don...

pierce1011 06.05.2005 · Read review
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Hitchcock at his Height

Advantages: vintage Hitchcock, suspenseful, enigmatic
Disadvantages: some scenes seem dated, though I don't mind

...Vertigo (1958) stars James Stewart as John Ferguson, known as Scottie to his acquaintances, a retired San Francisco detective. Scottie retired from the force after a rooftop scene in which a colleague of his died, the trauma and guilt leaving Scottie with a bad case of vertigo. A man of independent means, he spends his days doing next to nothing but chatting away the hours with his best mate and former date, Midge. Scottie is brought out of his half-life by old friend Gavin Estler, who asks Scottie to trail his suicidal wife Madeleine, played by Kim Novak. Madeleine has been acting extremely strangely for some time, and often disappears for hours on end. Estler believes her behaviour to have a supernatural base, and is afraid she will kill herself. Scottie agrees to follow Madeleine, partly because Estler is an old friend...

sandrabarber 25.01.2003 · Read review
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The dizzy height of Hitchcock's success

Advantages: Suspenseful, beautifully filmed
Disadvantages: None for me

...John 'Scottie' Ferguson was a police officer until one day when he is trapped on the top of a building and after watching a colleague fall to his death and being injured himself, he realises that he suffers from vertigo. Chastened by this shortcoming, he resigns. Then he is approached by a friend who is worried about his wife, Madeleine, who has been behaving strangely. Scottie is asked to follow Madeleine to find out what is going on. Initially reluctant, Scottie soon falls for Madeleine's charms and is determined to save her from whatever ghosts are chasing her. But will his fear of heights get in the way of saving Madeleine from her fate? Billed by many as Hitchcock's best film, I have seen Vertigo many times, yet each time manage to find something else in it that I didn't notice before. This time is no different. It is a perfect...

sunmeilan 21.10.2007 · Read review
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So who is Carlotta Valdes?

Advantages: Unbearably suspenseful, great music
Disadvantages: Quite a big twist to take in

...Yes, my Hitchcock week has become more of a Hitchcock couple of months, and here we have yet another of his most famous and best-loved films: Vertigo. Starring James Stewart from Rear Window and Kim Novak as his obligatory mysterious love interest, this is another romance/ psychological drama/ thriller, but with a twist. The story tells of John "Scotty" Ferguson, a policeman who if forced to quit after watching his partner fall to his death, and subsequently suffers from a fear of heights. He is given the task of following Madeleine (Kim Novak), whose husband is sure that she is possessed by the ghost of her great grandmother. As he tracks her around the streets of San Francisco, he begins to piece together her mysterious ways, and thinks that her inner demons are forcing her to commit suicide. However, when his fear of heights...

l-m-n-o-p 19.12.2005 · Read review
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never trust a woman, lol.

Advantages: good film
Disadvantages: none,

...One of the advantages of my new job is that I work spilt shifts. This means there are many hours when I get the chance to watch some of my DVD, without comments about having odd taste from my partner or family, (granted I do have odd taste sometimes, lol). This meant I managed to watch my copy of Vertigo, which I recently brought for a fiver from the local second hand DVD shop. This version of Vertigo is part of the Hitchcock Collection and released by good old Universal, is in 1.85.1 widescreen, so I still get the black lines at the top and bottom of the film, but does not distract too much from watching the film. The film is rated a PG and runs for about 2h hours and 4 minutes, so not a short film. This film as been remastered, so the disc has soundtracks in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, with the English...

oldgoth 23.05.2005 · Read review
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Review of Vertigo (1958)

A heady mix of dysfunction from an Old Master

Advantages: James Stewart as genteel middle aged obsessive, compulsive viewing
Disadvantages: Requires repeated viewings, may be slow and dated to some

...?Vertigo? stars James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Del Geddes, the film was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. By 1959 Hitch was at his peak. The Englishman?s star had been on the rise throughout the fifties with such films as ?Dial M for Murder? and ?Rear Window?. This was the second of three pictures (North by Northwest and Psycho the other two) which are widely admired as being some of the finest films of the period. If you havent seen the other two ? please do, you wont regret it! PLOT SUMMARY (in brief): James Stewart plays John ?Scottie? Ferguson, a retired cop with a fear of heights. The story is based around an old school friend who cajoles him into getting back into business again with an intriguing case. Gavin Elster has a young wife by the name of Madaleine who is acting very strangely, he fears she is obsessed with a long...

chunlex 31.05.2004 · Read review
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