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Alfred Hitchcock is one of my favorite film directors, if not my favorite of all time. Lately, I've been going back through his work. Starting last weekend with "Strangers on a Train", then "The Lady Vanishes", and last night I watched "Vertigo". I had not seen "Vertigo" for likely 30 years, and I know it's been at least that long for "Strangers". I had never seen "The Lady Vanishes" (that I can remember.)
I was stunned to see that "Vertigo" had been remastered and is now in 4K HDR! It looks fabulous! The soundtrack has been cleaned up and is in Dolby Digital Plus surround. Fantastic! I watched it on Amazon Prime Video.
The theme is about love and how far people will go to recapture that feeling of being in love.
Jimmy Stewart plays the typical male lead in a Hitchcock movie, innocent good guy with good intentions who gets mixed up in something nefarious. Kim Novak looks absolutely gorgeous and gets to exercise her acting ability because she (...explanation would require spoilers...)
The first half is kind of slow (hey, it's a Hitchcock movie) but don't give up. Besides, the scenes of late 50's San Francisco in 4K HDR are beautiful to watch. Hitchcock is the master of the moving camera technique and he invented a new technique called "dolly zoom" that effectively portrays Jimmy Stewart's acrophobia. The music by Bernard Herrmann is incredible and literally carries numerous scenes that are without dialogue as Stewart drives around and walks around following Kim Novak's character. She does some very mysterious, inexplicable things.
The mystery is well developed and I found myself wondering, "What in the heck is going on here" more than once. I think that another viewing would reveal things I'd missed the first time through. But essentially, I had no clue has to the two major plot twists. Highly recommended.
I was stunned to see that "Vertigo" had been remastered and is now in 4K HDR! It looks fabulous! The soundtrack has been cleaned up and is in Dolby Digital Plus surround. Fantastic! I watched it on Amazon Prime Video.
The theme is about love and how far people will go to recapture that feeling of being in love.
Jimmy Stewart plays the typical male lead in a Hitchcock movie, innocent good guy with good intentions who gets mixed up in something nefarious. Kim Novak looks absolutely gorgeous and gets to exercise her acting ability because she (...explanation would require spoilers...)
The first half is kind of slow (hey, it's a Hitchcock movie) but don't give up. Besides, the scenes of late 50's San Francisco in 4K HDR are beautiful to watch. Hitchcock is the master of the moving camera technique and he invented a new technique called "dolly zoom" that effectively portrays Jimmy Stewart's acrophobia. The music by Bernard Herrmann is incredible and literally carries numerous scenes that are without dialogue as Stewart drives around and walks around following Kim Novak's character. She does some very mysterious, inexplicable things.
The mystery is well developed and I found myself wondering, "What in the heck is going on here" more than once. I think that another viewing would reveal things I'd missed the first time through. But essentially, I had no clue has to the two major plot twists. Highly recommended.
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