Vertigo for Life

by guest contributor Dan AuilerA month of Vertigo is light sentence. Most of us who encounter this film end up serving life sentences. Our lives, our thoughts become trapped in the vortex of the strong currents this film produces. Vertigo's meaning and importance in film have become so varied and vital that choosing...

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Vertigo: Alfred Hitchcock's Edifice to Obsession

a video blog by guest contributor Brandon Kyle GocoBrandon Goco, guest host of Turner Classic Movies’ monthly podcast series for October 2011, is both a film student and a movie fanatic. He has penned well over a hundred individual blogs for the TCM Classic Film Union, has his own blog, Brandon Kyle the Cinephile,...

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James Stewart: A Walk on the Dark Side

by guest contributor ClassicfilmboyAlfred Hitchcock had a knack for bringing out the worst in the best of actors. And I mean that as a compliment. He could take likable leading men, cast them as dark characters and draw great performances. Think of Cary Grant’s Johnnie in Suspicion (before the studio re-edited...

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VERTIGO, the Bit Players

by guest contributor Allen HefnerKim Novak with Tom Helmore in VertigoA movie as incredible as Vertigo (1958) is a collaboration of many parts.  Even an actor as talented as James Stewart can’t carry a film of this complexity by himself.  The locations, scenery, costumes, set decoration, lighting, music,...

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Hitchcock Biographer Patrick McGilligan Discusses VERTIGO with John Greco

by guest contributor John GrecoJohn Greco of Twenty Four Frames recently interviewed award-winning biographer Patrick McGilligan, author of Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (Harper Collins, 2004). The focus of their dialogue was the director's mysterious and magnificent Vertigo.John Greco (JG):...

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An Inconsequential Yarn

by guest contributor Steven DeRosa “They say every true San Franciscan has one foot on a hill and the other in the past.”—Kate in Samuel Taylor’s The Pleasure of His CompanySince Vertigo is a film that garners such personal reactions, I wanted to begin this piece on something of a personal note. It’s not a matter...

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