Hi this is Steve. Vertigo has everything you expect to find in a Hitchcock film, a carefully planned murder, brilliant misdirection, suspicion, suspense, surprise, and a thrilling climax.

But like all great films, Vertigo both exemplifies

and transforms its own genre,

because in Vertigo we find something more,

something haunting and obsessive, something disturbing.

Of course, you might argue that Hitchcock is always disturbing.

After all, this is the filmmaker who brought us rope, psycho, strangers on a train, shadow of a doubt, suspicion, and on and on and on.

But I would argue that Vertigo is different because the drama in Vertigo comes not from the mechanical workings of the plot, but rather from the deep and unknowable conflict within a man's soul.

It is the character of Jimmy Stewart, obsessed, irrational, fragile, cruel, cruel controlling and desperate that haunts us and it's the mystery within that troubled soul that keeps us coming back again and again

This is a great film and if you haven't seen it I highly recommend a visit to our website cinnophiles. net where you can buy or

stream vertigo along with every other film The Cinephiles has ever reviewed.

John and I had an amazing time discussing this masterpiece.

So much fun in fact that one episode simply couldn't contain it.

And so come back this Friday when John and I entered the dizzying world of vertigo,

only on the cinnophiles.

When were you born?

I don't go. Where?

When? Tell me.

Madeline tell me.

No.

Madeline tell me what it is. Where do you go?

What taste you away?

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