Category: vertigo the making of a hitchcock classic
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A series of posts examining briefly each of the essays in the collection
Haunted by Haunted by Vertigo Haunted by Vertigo: Then and NowEdited by Sidney Gottlieb and Donal MartinJohn Libbey PublishingIndiana University Press Haunted by Vertigo is a first rate collection of essays sampling each of the areas that appear to have the most modern interest currently in Hitchcock’s Vertigo. I imagine every reader will find something […]
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Madeleine’s grey suit auctions for more than $25 grand
From the article: “The two-piece, single-breasted suit, highlighted by turned-up cuffs, five covered buttons and a pencil skirt, plays a pivotal role in the 1958 film; so how did such an iconic piece of cinema fashion remain undiscovered for almost six decades? The answer isn’t surprising, says Williamson. “When so many studios liquidated their costumes […]
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THIS WEEK in VERTIGO: THE MAKING OF A HITCHCOCK CLASSIC SPECIAL EDITION: Novak and Geddes
For Kim Novak, on her first day of studio work for the production, it wasn’t an easy beginning. Not only did the apartment scene call for her first prolonged passages of dialogue; she had to begin the sequence lying naked in bed, and then finish it in only a robe. And, if Novak’s own account […]
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This week in VERTIGO: THE MAKING OF A HITCHCOCK CLASSIC SPECIAL EDITION Elster’s Office and Scottie’s Apartment
Elster’s office-one of the film’s many elaborately decorated interior sets-was filled conscientiously by Henry Bumstead with San Francisco memorabilia: old maps and posters, a prominent glass case holding a model of a ship. An entirely separate section of the room, complete with raised floor and a visible ceiling, gave the shorter Tom Helmore a chance […]
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Travel to Big Basin State Park in This week in VERTIGO: THE MAKING OF A HITCHCOCK CLASSIC SPECIAL EDITION
This week the cast and crew travel to Big Basin State Park to film what has come to be known (mistakenly) as the Muir Woods scene. The full account and the rest of the making of Vertigo story is available in the Kindle VERTIGO: THE MAKING OF A HITCHCOCK CLASSIC SPECIAL EDITION. When cast and […]
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This week in VERTIGO: THE MAKING OF A HITCHCOCK CLASSIC SPECIAL EDITION
In 1957, the first half of October was spent on location during the filming of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. San Juan Bautista is one of the films principle “stations on the cross.” The town, preserved from the 1880s, remains as it was (for the most part) in 1957. This aspic quality of Bautista, indeed the same […]
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This week in VERTIGO: THE MAKING OF A HITCHCOCK CLASSIC
All of the location work for Vertigo was completed in the first two weeks of October in 1957. To celebrate the publication of the recent Kinde Special Edition of VERTIGO: THE MAKING OF A HITCHCOCK CLASSIC, I will be marking the Vertigo calendar dates with where the production was in 1958.
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Losing Sight of Magritte by Francine Prose | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
Each time I watch Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, it seems like something else: a thriller, a study of the desire to transform every new love into a replica of an old one, a version of the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. Recently I saw
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VSA: Dizzy with suspense | Denton Record Chronicle | News for Denton County, Texas – Denton Record-Chronicle
http://www.dentonrc.com/entertainment/denton-time-headlines/20130926-dizzy-with-suspense.ece
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VSA: Geva and the Little celebrate Alfred Hitchcock | Democrat and Chronicle | democratandchronicle.com
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20130921/LIVING0107/309210022/Alfred-Hitchcock-Vertigo-Rear-Window
Hitch’s Vertigo 