Vertigo' | Critics' Picks | The New York Times

[@joshmaxin7188]

No film has ever been created quite like Vertigo. It is set-up so much different than other of Hitchcock's films, and once you leave, you rewatch it over again. It is perfect.

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[@Anonymous-kt6fs]

Josh Maxin David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive is probably the closest modern film to Vertigo, both in form and quality, it’s equally superior and brilliant. A nightmare within a nightmare within a nightmare.

[@Fanfanbalibar]

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[@mc5971]

Requires a little patience from the contemporary viewer but what an amazing film! Should be required viewing for anyone interested in film or its history.

[@wildsmiley]

My #1 favorite Hitchcock film. Beautiful and compelling beyond all words. Perfect, absolutely.

[@johnjakle943]

yes

[@CoCotheTurtle]

Your favorite Hitchcock film? "No, my *#1* favorite Hitchcock film." Well, that makes a difference!

[@edwardjones4870]

I saw Vertigo when it was first released. I was a young boy, and it made such an impression on me. As an adult I’ve watched it again and again. I’ve even traveled to San Francisco to visit some of the locations where it was filmed. To think that many critics dismissed it as a failure and that audiences stayed away! Time has proved that Vertigo is a cinematic masterpiece.

[@65g4]

this film is a masterpiece

[@colerainfan1143]

It's on my top 10. I've seen it half a dozen times over the years, and I could watch it again tonight.

[@Fanfanbalibar]

Do it!

[@davidcawrowl3865]

One of the most hypnotic movies ever made. Kim's hushed voice enhances the effect. Bernard's music enhances it further. Hypnosis is a pleasurable state; hence the experience of a pleasurable movie--even beyond the viewer's consciousness.

[@pratishtha1437]

I've been watching these videos related to 'Vertigo', and as I've done that I've been following your comments on every one of those videos. And you are the only one who appreciates the film just the way it should be appreciated, and perhaps 'understand' it with all your heart.

[@angelicbeing2001]

i freaking love this movie. it is one of the best flims ever made period. it is an amazing flim that really puts you into same state as him. you cannot recall frist time you saw it. you seen thiis before etc feelings. i loved the soundtrack of this flim. it is one of the most amazing. it is hitchcock's best flim period. you are watching one of the most amazing flims in the history of flim. everyone should watch this gem today

[@CoCotheTurtle]

and then learn about spelling. and punctuation. and uppercase letters period.

[@keithorr3327]

This is the one to beat from among Hitchcock's American period of film-making, well, this and Hitchcock's superior espionage cold war seriocomic/thriller "North By Northwest" (1959) made the following year. "Vertigo" (1958), Hitchcock's pastel noir, is also the closest Hitchcock ever came in social overtures to the lurid unsavory subject of necrophilia which is hinted at but never explicit and the third unbilled star of this film is of course the picturesque city of San Francisco...my home.

[@hawthorne8888]

An absolute masterpiece of a film. Spellbinding, beautiful and perfect. My favourite.

[@horrorboost]

@mothersfreakout I absolutely agree. The visuals, music, editing, acting, plot, character development are all perfect. Bernard and Alfred were at the top of their game with this one. I would describe this film as a beautiful and eerie painting. It is a MUST for anyone who loves movies, Hitch fan or not.

[@GavinCMB]

one of the best movies ever made...

[@mothersfreakout]

I LOVE this movie! It is my all time favorite Alfred Hitchcock film.

[@fringelilyfringelily391]

I saw it in 1959, when I was twelve years old in my first year of High School ... if it rained on a sports afternoon, we would see a film in the school hall ... someone on the staff who chose the movie obviously had taste ... I used to pray for rain. This is also how I saw The Man Who Knew Too Much.

[@georgemorley1029]

A nice, special memory. But not at all in the commando spirit! “If it’s not raining, we’re not training!” 😉

[@esta1ful]

Must have been some other movie, because Vertigo was still making the rounds of theaters in its first release then. You couldn’t have seen it in school. Anyway, the subject matter isn’t appropriate for a 12 year old kid

[@Fanfanbalibar]

I love "I used to pray for rain" !!!!!

[@Jere616]

"It wasn't supposed to happen this way" - the most important line in the first half of the movie.

[@AdamAus85]

I was spellbound for it's entirety. I dreamlike, surreal look into the past.

[@luisfedericosala1354]

I enjoyed this film many times, my favorite part is, when Scotty transform Judy in Madeleine. They were so much in love, but death can’t be avoided.

[@georgemorley1029]

Yes I think this film is about the inevitability of loss, losing control and the comfort of lies over the truth.

[@MediabyAaron]

The movie is extra creepy if you've lived or spent a lot of time in san fran.

[@matangox]

I've been to SF once for a couple of days and I also visited the Sequoia National Park. It makes my experience while watching Vertigo extra special. SF is IMO the most beautiful city in the US.

[@cloedoso3724]

Media by Aaron wow! why is that??

[@dheerajhazarika1836]

Vertigo was such a masterpiece; it’s such a shame Hitchcock did not won an Oscar!

[@spaceghostman]

one of hitchcock's best.

[@deckofcards87]

Most of his films are clever, but Vertigo is the one Hitchcock film that I think is genuinely a work of genius, and the one that's most rewarding with repeat viewings.

[@luisfedericosala1354]

I hope to visit again SF next year, after many years of being there, and to stay at Vertigo Hotel, wheee Judy was lodged in the movie and to be able to do the Vertigo tour. The Sequoia scene wasn’t shoot at Yosemite Park. Madeleine and Judie were admirably performed by Kim Novak 🌷🌹😍

[@Fanfanbalibar]

Shot at Big Basin redwoods (and not in Marin county, Muir woods)!

[@dani9714]

@DulBeat Hitchcock never made a bad or mediocre film, that's the truth.

[@fringelilyfringelily391]

Take a look at Jamaica Inn ... it's awful ... but Vertigo is ravishing.

[@Rwienemann2944]

The best movie of all time! A perfect masterpiece and a perfect movie!

[@Fellipe_S]

Cara, esse filme brincou comigo... fora de compreensão, sensacional!

[@fanorama1]

one of the finest films ever made

[@johnjakle8663]

Greatest film ever made...VERTIGO is constantly put down by TCM ben mankiewicz...he is very angry that people love this classic masterpiece.

[@eccles8118]

I love the bit where Morrissey realises he's just eaten veal.

[@OmarFernandesAly]

Vertigo is my preferred movie

[@hdholl9696]

No American actress has ever had so much European class as Kim Novak in Vertigo.

[@Fanfanbalibar]

Thanks for us French ladies !

[@JiveDadson]

I cannot watch this guy without thinking of Peter K. Rosenthal.

[@Fanfanbalibar]

Who?

[@EisforEvil]

Why does this guy always feel the need to spoil movies at the very beginning of these? It just makes people not interested in watching videos for movies they haven't seen yet.

[@Yourmustacheisgrowingonme]

yes, but if you've never seen it,.you wouldnt know that it's the end

[@Yourmustacheisgrowingonme]

plus, if a film is truly great, it's not going to lose its impact matter how many times you watch it. there will always be new things to discover

[@Brendissimo1]

Also, why watch these if you haven't seen it? They aren't advertising them as spoiler-free. I personally am only interested in watching these videos about films that I already know and love. I'm watching for the analysis, not to know whether I should go pick up a copy.

[@schallrd1]

If you never saw Vertigo then do yourself a favor and make sure you do.

[@FetaCheese222]

@DulBeat I think you missed the point.

[@ToughXArmy69]

Kim Novak is magnificent in this movie masterpiece. Harry Coh of Columbia told Novak the script was weak but loaned his number one star to paramount. The director Hitchcock told Novak that he preferred Vera mikes but she got pregnant. Vera Miles w

[@Fanfanbalibar]

Vera Miles wouldn't have been so glamorous and moving usn etc and I can't imagine her in Judy's part ! Thanks to this pregnacy and also Sir Alfred's surgery which delayed the beginnng of shooting !

[@anrun]

@@Fanfanbalibar Miles was a beautiful woman and I think would have been good or great in the movie. But, of course, we can't say for sure that it would have become what it is with Novak: one of the greatest movies ever made.

[@matangox]

If Verigo was black & white it would be an archetypal film noir.

[@schumisebas]

It would lose a lot of meanings given through the use of colour, which was astonishing in this film.

[@jlasf]

It's a film noir in color. Like Chinatown.

[@larry1824]

Challenging a bit slow but lordy what a windup 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@wildsmiley]

@mothersfreakout mine too!

[@capt.molyneaux7037]

Fine movie, worthless criticism...dear god..

[@XavierKatzone]

It's a well-crafted film - a love-letter to '50s Frisco - but full of plot-holes (Scorcese claims it's plot is just a loose structure on which to hang all the set-pieces) and inconsistencies, and only remotely believable if you presume that Scotty was an incompetent, oblivious, wreckless detective. WTF was he and the uniform doing jumping 8-storey rooftops in pursuit of - WHOM? The "GRANDFATHER of Sam" killer?

[@pedrob3953]

They say the greatest artists master the rules and then break them. Hitchcock knew his movie was full of plot holes and didn't care - is still one of the greatest of all time.

[@jlasf]

Missing the forest for the trees. It's about erotic, psychological obsession. It's not a who-done-it.

[@magnvm100]

there are many flaws in the story. Why wasn't an autopsy performed on Madaleine when she was thrown from the tower? The autopsy would verify that she did not die from the fall, but from being strangled. Hitchcock underestimates the intelligence that she watches his movies. In addition to several other flaws in the story. just an ordinary movie.

[@no288]

The Coroner (who is a joke in this movie) did not ordre an autopsy neither did the husband. (An autopsy is not needed here anyway). However after a suicide the police should have investigated that the suicide has not been staged to cover up foul play. The jury decision only stated that she was of unsound mind when she committed suicide. An unsound mind does detemine the cause of death. Its the Coroner' job to examine the body, determine the cause and the time of death. But that fool just insults Scottie instead. Worst Coroner ever!

[@wildsmiley]

@dani9714 Wrong. Under Capricorn is mediocre. So's Topaz.

[@douglaspouch5313]

This film looks great. Unfortunately the plot is laughable verging on the ridiculous.

[@ascendant9792]

Nah, this movie ain`t that good. Compered to for instance Rear Window this movie is rather bleak.

[@lynnturman8157]

Why does my foot itch?

[@christinacascadilla4473]

That’s a really lame movie. Totally padded. I own a copy of the DVD just to remind me to write better than this. It would work as a one hour TV show.

[@Fanfanbalibar]

If this movie is lame, what are you????? As Marjorie said "Stupid, stupid, stupid" when she painted herself as the Portrait of Carlotta in the Museum !!!!!

[@charlieblecker350]

Honestly I found this's film fairly unremarkable especially compared to something like Rebecca or psycho.

[@o.l4890]

Ok boomer

[@tuberaxx]

Rebecca is quintessential early HItchcock and Psycho is great for a horror movie, but Vertigo is what makes Hitchcock a true artist… immortal.