Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

Vertigo: An Introduction


I've just published a guide to Hitchcock's Vertigo; one of his best films. Here's the Introduction: Vertigo (1958), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, has made a long critical journey in the sixty years since it was first released. At the time critical reaction was cool and the box office for a Hitchcock movie was weak. However by…

See also...

Is Vertigo the best or worst movie ever?

Explore...

Under the Skin - BFI review

Fallen Angels: A Wong Kar Wai Masterpiece

Under the Skin - audiovisual alienation

Behind Carol: the photographers who influenced Todd Haynes’ award-winning film

Nick Broomfield interview

David Lynch’s Vertigo

Mastering the Movie Colour Palette: del Toro

Pan's Labyrinth - The Pale Man article

Searching for Fallen Angels' Lost Lens

Buster Keaton - Silent Film Era

New...

November 2025 GCSE Examinations

WAR HORSE, Norwich Theatre Royal, Thursday 6th November 2025 Places available

Vacancies

Correspondence from the Exams Office

Admissions and Application Forms :: Main School and Sixth Form

January 2026 Examinations

Parents Evening :: Year 12

December Mock Examinations

Discover...

Hitchcock Vertigo GCE Examinations Film Studies ZEN Rear Window Parent Information House Of Flying Daggers Silent Film Aesthetics Jobs Auteur Week Yimou Year 9 Vacancies Statutory Information GCSE Drama Under The Skin Pan's Labyrinth Year 9 Options

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...