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Why does anyone still rate Vertigo and its creepy, wonky plot?

16 May 2020

9:00 AM

16 May 2020

9:00 AM

Vertigo

Here’s something that may interest you. Or not. (Could go either way.) I was looking over Sight & Sound’s ‘100 Greatest Films of All Time’, which has Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo(1958) at number one, having knocked Citizen Kane from the top spot in 2012. (That film always did need a more exciting reveal; would it have helped if Rosebud had turned out to be a massive fireball or dinosaur egg?)

But back to Vertigo, which is now the best film ever made.

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