Vertigo voted worlds greatest movie?

Not by me though!

My top ten includes

The Exorcist
Goodfellas
Citizen Kane
Withnail and I
The Godfather I and II
Robocop
Predator
The Funeral
Yojimbo
Get Carter
Subway
Psycho
Rosemary's Baby
Treasure of The Sierra Madre
Totoro
It's a Wonderful Life
The Outlaw Josey Wales

And so on, but nowhere on my top ten is Vertigo, it's an OK movie for sure, but the greatest ever?

Fuck off!

I think it's "great", not sure where it would feature in my own list of greatest ever, but it would be in a Top 100 anyway. I'd have it above Psycho, though.

I like how your top 10 includes 17 titles "and so on". :)))

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I like how your top 10 includes 17 titles "and so on". :)))

Of course, it's quantum dude ; )

The only Hitchcock movie that I like is Rear Window. The rest of them I find heavy-handed and smug.

I suppose Tarkovsky and Kubrick would take a few spots on my top ten, as would Leone, Lynch and Scorsese.

Withnail & I is ace.

Voted by a bunch of twats.

Owners defend changes to Vertigo house

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The rest of them I find heavy-handed and smug.

Have you seen them all? He directed >50 films.

"Alfred Hitchcock did it...in a completely different way...you've never seen anything like...
The Trouble With Harry "

watched it for the first time a little while ago, feel asleep somewhere in the middle. seemed good though

liked frenzy and rope

A few favourite Hitchcock films, no particular order:
Trouble With Harry
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 version)
Lifeboat
Strangers On A Train
Rope
The Birds
Rear Window

Frenzy's good, but seriously perverse. The scene in the back of the potato truck
is sick, twisted and funny. A bunch of great Brit character actors/actresses in that one.

Psycho's an amazingly well-made film, but not a fave.

Blake Edwards made a pretty good Hitchcock film; aptly titled 'Experiment In Terror',
it was his experiment in making a scary/Hitchcock-y movie.
Set and filmed in SF, like a few of Hitchcock's, with a cold-blooded, creepy psycho killer/extortionist,
pretty female victims, and an intense public chase scene ending (during an SF Giants game
at Candlestick Park, with voiceover narration by LA Dodgers announcer, Vin Scully!).
Henry Mancini did the soundtrack, a menacing hybrid of his Breakfast At Tiffany's and Pink Panther scores.

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Withnail & I is ace.

Deffo. And wtf ever happened to Bruce Robinson anyway?!?
Haven't seen Rum Diary; Johnny Depp and HST: can't get any worse than that combo.

Strangers On A Train is excellent, Bruno is a brilliant character. I really like Notorious too.

Great book, too; Patricia Highsmith, author of the Ripley novels.
iirc, she was in her mid-20s when she wrote Strangers.

Notorious, good. Don't dig Ingrid Bergman, though; too much pouty moue.

Oh I didn't know about the book, I just assumed it was written by Chandler as he did the screenplay.

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Don't dig Ingrid Bergman, though; too much pouty moue.

A few people have said the same to me, I think she's great in Notorious though.

Little - perhaps none - of Chandler script was actually used.
He fought with and insulted Hitchcock, and was exorcised.
The studio kept Chandler name on the bill, for the hype.

Essentially, Hitchcock 'wrote' the script. He dictated it to the credited co-writer and assistants.

btw, Charlotte Rampling's character in 'Swimming Pool' is fashioned after Patricia Highsmith.
A lot of her best stuff - Strangers, Ripley novels - involved closeted, self-repressed gay men;
kind of warped reflections of herself.

Vertigo is actually my favorite film. So, yeah...right on.

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Have you seen them all? He directed >50 films.

I have actually. Watched the complete collection with my father, who's a fan. Stand by my original statement. Rear Window is fantastic, but I can't be bothered with the rest - and I know that they're good, but I don't like them because of the Hitchcock spiel. Just recently watched Body Double by De Palma, which I really liked and, of course, it's a complete Hitchcock love-fest. Had me thinking of Mulholland Drive in a way.

Regarding Vertigo, even though a bit outdated today, I personally think that you rarely, if ever, find such heavy human emotional play within the horror movie genre. Thus "The Master Of Suspense". And although I've not been able to sit through it twice (lol), Vertigo is a great movie. Kim Novak is hot as hell with that French Twist in her hair also ;)

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Regarding Vertigo, even though a bit outdated today, I personally think that you rarely, if ever, find such heavy human emotional play within the horror movie genre. Thus "The Master Of Suspense". And although I've not been able to sit through it twice (lol), Vertigo is a great movie. Kim Novak is hot as hell with that French Twist in her hair also ;)

If you've sat through it once you've kinda sat through it twice, due to its repetitive, cyclic story--one of its charms, IMO.