My wife and I had a real old school movie night last night, as we drove the 75kms down the road to take in Vertigo as part of the Hitchock festival at the Moose Jaw Cultural Centre. It was held in an old style movie theatre that's been taken over to be the local all purpose theatre. This gave us a real old time feel (gorgeous ceilings, very comfy seats, steeply sloped floor and a balcony.
The film itself is considered not only one of Hitch's best, one of the best ever. In fact just in 2012, Sight and Sound 's critics poll named it #1 of all time. Personally I waffle between Rear Window and North by Northwest as being #1, but could blather on in my typical enthusiastic yet uneducated way. For me Vertigo has it all - creepy psychological plot involving deception and obsession, gorgeous 1950s colour, a regular guy caught up in something way over his head, an unobtainable blond....
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