Vertigo Resources

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That's right, here are the stories of some of Hitchcock's greatest films told entirely through Emojis. We so wish we had thought of this!

In case you can't make it to San Francisco to take a real-life Vertigo tour, here's the next best thing: an online guide to the film's many great Bay Area locations.

98% said wow. Check out Rotten Tomatoes for a summary of what they thought.

Mel Brooks does a comic take on acrophobia—"high" anxiety, get it?—in this hilarious movie that parodies a bunch of Hitchcock films. Even the poster steals shamelessly from Vertigo.

This isn't the most obvious adaptation you'll ever see, but that makes it that much more fun to watch after Vertigo. See if you can spot the plot points that current-day master Pedro Almodóvar borrowed from our friend Hitch.

Here again, the references to Hitch are subtle, but, as in Bad Education, this makes for a fun game of "where's the reference?" Argentinean up-and-comer Lucrecia Martel honors the deeply weird feel of Vertigo with a psychological thriller of her own.

Writers for The Simpsons can't resist injecting a little Hitchcock into their episodes. In "Principal Charming," Principal Skinner gets involved in a crazy love triangle and climbs the spiral stairs of a bell tower to save his beloved.

The Telegraph weighs in on its native son knocking Citizen Kane off its pedestal.

Here's a lovely meditation on living with Vertigo, a beautiful but perplexing film. Miller discusses the film's alternate ending, so if you're curious about that bit of film trivia, this article offers a good place to start.

In 1962, Hitchcock gave a series of interviews to the French director Francois Truffaut. These interviews have since become the starting point for all serious discussions of Hitch's films.

The late great film critic reviews one of Hitchcock's finest. Verdict: thumbs up.

Here's the original 1958 review from the New York Times. They liked it. This was a minority opinion at the time.

The New York Times weighs in again on how the film seems to have grown on everyone in the past 50 years.

Here's a recent article attesting to the fact that, even in 2015, cutting-edge directors continue to find Vertigo inspiring.

First things first: this 1958 trailer starts with a dictionary definition of "vertigo." We promise it gets better after that. We especially love the retro-cool voiceover.

Here's a less dated trailer, one much closer to what we're used to today. Personally, we prefer the dictionary, but this newer teaser gives a better sense of what the film's about and highlights Bernard Herrmann's beautiful score.

Click here for the whole unforgettable experience of Vertigo's score.

If you're curious to hear some of the other jams that made score-composer Bernard Herrmann famous, look no further.

If you have a spare 12 hours, here are audiotapes of Hitchcock's 1962 interviews with Francois Truffaut, which were published in a 1967 book that became the bible for film directors.

This eye-catching poster borrows from Vertigo's psychedelic opening credits and from its even weirder dream sequence. Does it make you dizzy?

Here's a still from Scottie's dream. Talk about head over heels.

Great shot of Scottie rescuing Madeleine from her dip in the bay.

This production still shows Hitch opposite one of the many blonde actresses he adored.

This wild still compresses so much of Vertigo's drama into a single frame. Fair warning: it's not explicit, but it does make Hitch's masterpiece look quite a bit kinkier than it is in reality.