Tag: Vertigo
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Saul Bass’s Only Credit as Director Is a Weird Horror Movie About Ants
Even if you don’t know his name, you’ve seen his work: the hypnotic, dizzying poster for Vertigo (and its iconic opening credit sequence), the vaguely horrifying original poster for The Shining, and a pretty sizable selection of household logos, from Lawry’s to the goddamn Girl Scouts. On top of that, legendary graphic designer Saul Bass…
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Alfred Hitchcock Turned His Lowest-Budget Movie Into a Masterpiece
Seminal director Alfred Hitchcock made Psycho, widely considered one of the best films of all time, at 60 years old and on a shoestring budget. After a career already responsible for films that are the bread and butter of both scholars and students — Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, Vertigo, and North by Northwest…
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Thrillers Owe a Great Debt to Cary Grant
While Alfred Hitchcock is best known for the classic films of his late career, such as Psycho, Rear Window, Dial M For Murder, Vertigo, and Rope, Hitchcock had actually been making films since the 1920s. While the British films he made during the first two decades of his career are no less brilliant than his…
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The Psycho Remake Is A Bad Movie, But A Massively Successful Experiment
Announced in Deadline on March 23, a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 film “Vertigo” may very well be in the works. It’s likely the cineastes of the world screwed up their faces in disapproval. “Vertigo” might be considered one of cinema’s more indelible classics, and it regularly appears near the top — or at the…
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Sam Neill Says ‘Peaky Blinders’ Rape Scene Was the Most ‘Horrible’ to Film
Sam Neill is reliving one of the “most difficult” scenes he’s ever had to film.Neill portrayed Major Campbell in “Peaky Blinders,” who rapes Aunt Polly, played by late actress Helen McCrory. “Peaky Blinders” was created by showrunner Steven Knight, who is now set to write the latest “Star Wars” film and a “Vertigo” remake.“Easily the…
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Alfred Hitchcock Turned His Lowest-Budget Movie Into a Masterpiece
Seminal director Alfred Hitchcock made Psycho, widely considered one of the best films of all time, at 60 years old and on a shoestring budget. After a career already responsible for films that are the bread and butter of both scholars and students — Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, Vertigo, and North by Northwest…
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Why Is Jeanne Dielman Sight & Sound’s Top Movie of All Time?
As cinema geeks waited for Sight & Sound to release the latest iteration of its Greatest Films of All Time list, they warmed themselves up for the inevitable Twitter arguments by pregaming a little. What movie would take the top spot this time? Would it be Vertigo again? Would Citizen Kane take back the throne?…
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10 Best Whodunits Of The 21st Century To Watch Before ‘Glass Onion’
Whodunit or a colloquial elision of “who’s done it?” is a complicated, plot-driven type of detective fiction where the mystery of who committed the murder takes center stage. This mystery subgenre has been a mainstay since the advent of cinema, giving rise to a number of great films that have had an unbreakable influence on…
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Trailer Watch: Nina Menkes’s Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
Independent filmmaker Nina Menkes returns with Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, a documentary that uses clips from hundreds of films to demonstrate the pervasiveness of the male gaze in the dominant cinematic canon—and the real-world misogyny that Menkes believes these depictions abet. Originally conceived as a presentation that the filmmaker gave at film festivals or as stand-alone talks,…
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Citizen Kane Wasn’t Always Seen As A Cinematic Classic
In the annals of movie history, few titles hold as much weight as “Citizen Kane,” which has become shorthand for the Great American Film, like the Great American Novel, and is frequently shortlisted as such. It’s not just the American Film Institute that thinks “Citizen Kane” is the best movie ever made. Once every 10 years, the…