Vertigo2025-12-24
Toronto, ON
One final thing I have to do... and then I'll be free of the past.
Hitchcock's undisputed masterpiece. The hypnotically obsessive pursuit of a fantasy that is perhaps not meant to be understood. So much is said in between the lines here — it's what the characters are observing, and just as much what they aren't saying aloud, that really haunts you. Bernard Herrmann's score is absolutely fantastic. One of my all-time favourites. It's the perfect companion to the film, yet it also stands on its own if you simply want to be haunted again.
Watched on 70mm at the TIFF Lightbox. The colours here were beautiful. Almost done with this year's Magnificent 70mm series, just have 2001: A Space Odyssey next. I believe this print was struck from the 1996 restoration.