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The Projection Booth Podcast

Episode 286: Vertigo (1958)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8686 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2016

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo is a tale of obsession which has sparked an obsession in many of its viewers. Jimmy Stewart stars as John "Scottie" Ferguson, a disgraced detective who's hired by an old friend to follow his wife, Madeline (Kim Novak), who seems to have become possessed by a spirit from San Francisco's past.
Professors Tania Modleski and Susan White (no relation) join Mike to discuss the film which was ranked as the best film in the world in a 2012 Sight & Sound poll. Authors Patrick McGilligan (Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light) and Dan Auiler (Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic)
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0:00.0

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0:04.6

Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.

0:11.3

Vertigo, a feeling of dizziness, a swimming in the head.

0:15.2

Figuratively, a state in which all things seem to be engulfed in a whirlpool of terror,

0:19.8

as created by Alfred Hitchcock in the story that gives new meaning to the word suspense.

0:38.7

I don't want to die. There's someone inside me, and she says I must die.

0:41.7

Scotty, don't let me go.

0:44.7

A beautiful girl, haunted by the desperate,

0:47.0

unexplainable urge to destroy herself.

0:50.4

A man possessed by the paralyzing vertigo that made him afraid of high places.

0:52.9

Easy now.

0:53.9

I know, I know. Why is this? vertigo that made him afraid of high places. Easy now. Oh no.

0:54.4

Oh, no.

0:56.8

Well, this is a sense.

0:58.9

Here, I look up, I look down.

1:01.6

I look up.

1:03.0

I look.

1:07.6

What was the strange attraction that brought these two together, in spite of the dark forces that tore them apart?

1:14.1

The specter from the past that drew her to the ancient headstone in the mission graveyard.

1:19.5

The compulsion that drove her relentlessly to the point of no return.

1:25.1

The story of a love so powerful it broke down all barriers between past and present,

1:30.5

between life and death, between the golden girl in the dark tower,

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