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  • čas přidán 20. 10. 2009
  • A. O. Scott revisits Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 vertigo-inducing masterpiece.
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  • @joshmaxin7188
    @joshmaxin7188 Před 8 lety +102

    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.

    • @signupforeverything4756
      @signupforeverything4756 Před 6 lety +3

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    • @Anonymous-kt6fs
      @Anonymous-kt6fs Před 6 lety +8

      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
      @Fanfanbalibar Před 5 měsíci

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  • @mc5971
    @mc5971 Před 14 lety +47

    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.

  • @65g4
    @65g4 Před 6 lety +53

    this film is a masterpiece

  • @wildsmiley
    @wildsmiley Před 13 lety +34

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

    • @johnjakle943
      @johnjakle943 Před 6 lety +1

      yes

    • @CoCotheTurtle
      @CoCotheTurtle Před 2 lety

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

  • @colerainfan1143
    @colerainfan1143 Před 7 lety +21

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

  • @edwardjones4870
    @edwardjones4870 Před rokem +4

    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.

  • @davidcawrowl3865
    @davidcawrowl3865 Před 5 lety +8

    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
      @pratishtha1437 Před 4 lety +1

      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.

  • @keithorr3327
    @keithorr3327 Před 9 lety +16

    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
    @hawthorne8888 Před 4 lety +3

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

  • @mothersfreakout
    @mothersfreakout Před 14 lety +7

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

  • @cpz91
    @cpz91 Před 13 lety +11

    @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.

  • @GavinCharlesFilms
    @GavinCharlesFilms Před 12 lety +15

    one of the best movies ever made...

  • @AdamAus85
    @AdamAus85 Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @fringelilyfringelily391
    @fringelilyfringelily391 Před 3 lety +3

    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
      @georgemorley1029 Před 3 lety

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

    • @esta1ful
      @esta1ful Před 3 lety +1

      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
      @Fanfanbalibar Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @luisfedericosala1354
    @luisfedericosala1354 Před 4 lety +6

    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
      @georgemorley1029 Před 3 lety

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

  • @luisfedericosala1354
    @luisfedericosala1354 Před 5 lety +1

    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
      @Fanfanbalibar Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @MediabyAaron
    @MediabyAaron Před 10 lety +34

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

    • @matangox
      @matangox Před 5 lety +10

      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
      @cloedoso3724 Před 5 lety

      Media by Aaron wow! why is that??

  • @Jere616
    @Jere616 Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @Fellipe_S
    @Fellipe_S Před 6 lety +1

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

  • @spaceghostman
    @spaceghostman Před 14 lety +4

    one of hitchcock's best.

  • @dheerajhazarika1836
    @dheerajhazarika1836 Před 5 lety +2

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

  • @deckofcards87
    @deckofcards87 Před 2 lety +1

    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.

  • @Rwienemann2944
    @Rwienemann2944 Před 3 lety

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

  • @fanorama1
    @fanorama1 Před 3 lety

    one of the finest films ever made

  • @dani9714
    @dani9714 Před 13 lety +5

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

  • @OmarFernandesAly
    @OmarFernandesAly Před rokem

    Vertigo is my preferred movie

  • @eccles8118
    @eccles8118 Před 4 lety

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

  • @wildsmiley
    @wildsmiley Před 12 lety

    @mothersfreakout mine too!

  • @JiveDadson
    @JiveDadson Před 5 lety +2

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

  • @hdholl9696
    @hdholl9696 Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @FetaCheese222
    @FetaCheese222 Před 13 lety +1

    @DulBeat I think you missed the point.

  • @larry1824
    @larry1824 Před 5 dny

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

  • @johnjakle8663
    @johnjakle8663 Před rokem +1

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

  • @ToughXArmy69
    @ToughXArmy69 Před 3 lety

    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
      @Fanfanbalibar Před 5 měsíci

      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
      @anrun Před 3 měsíci

      @@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.

  • @EisforEvil
    @EisforEvil Před 10 lety +10

    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
      @Yourmustacheisgrowingonme Před 8 lety +2

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

    • @Yourmustacheisgrowingonme
      @Yourmustacheisgrowingonme Před 8 lety +3

      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
      @Brendissimo1 Před 6 lety +3

      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
    @schallrd1 Před rokem

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

  • @matangox
    @matangox Před 5 lety +5

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

    • @schumisebas
      @schumisebas Před 5 lety +7

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

    • @jlasf
      @jlasf Před rokem +1

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

  • @capt.molyneaux7037
    @capt.molyneaux7037 Před 5 lety +1

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

  • @lynnturman8157
    @lynnturman8157 Před 8 lety +1

    Why does my foot itch?

  • @wildsmiley
    @wildsmiley Před 13 lety

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

  • @XavierKatzone
    @XavierKatzone Před 3 lety

    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
      @pedrob3953 Před 2 lety +3

      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
      @jlasf Před rokem +2

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

  • @magnvm100
    @magnvm100 Před 2 lety

    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
      @no288 Před 10 měsíci +1

      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!

  • @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
      @Fanfanbalibar Před 5 měsíci

      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
    @charlieblecker350 Před 9 lety +1

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

    • @randywhite3947
      @randywhite3947 Před 4 lety +6

      Nah Vertigo is superior to both

    • @o.l4890
      @o.l4890 Před 3 lety

      Ok boomer

    • @tuberaxx
      @tuberaxx Před 3 lety +2

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