Z and I went to see Hitchcock's Vertigo on the big screen last night. I haven;t seen it since the first time, which was in an early re-run somewhere around 1962 I think. I thought it was extraordinarily weird then, but undoubtedly a work of personal art. It retains all of that, and seems both more personal and more weird even than it was. A certain part of that is the effect of time: the way things look, the way people behave, the body language, makeup, the old (and rather inadequately r...
Published on August 13, 2010 01:13