Deborah Ross

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

Hitchcock’s thriller is hailed as the greatest film of all time by Sight & Sound, but its plot is full of holes and it’s creepy, and not in a good way

Creepy, but not in a good way: Kim Novak as Madeleine and James Stewart as Scottie in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo [Archive Photos/Getty Images] 
issue 16 May 2020

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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