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...
Explore...
3 Hitchcock Techniques Magnified
Fallen Angels: A Wong Kar Wai Masterpiece
House of Flying Daggers - flashcards
House of Flying Daggers: A Reappraisal
Pan's Labyrinth - The Pale Man article
Under the Skin - The Alien Gaze
How to write scene transitions
Behind Carol: the photographers who influenced Todd Haynes’ award-winning film
New...
LAMDA Performance and public speaking exams 2026-2027
Impact Evaluation of LAMDA Exams in Schools
Stranger Things, The First Shadow. The Phoenix Theatre, Friday 11th September.
Discover...
Hitchcock Vertigo GCE Examinations Film Studies ZEN Assessment Coursework A Level Drama SOTD Pan's Labyrinth Short Film Revision Theatre Documentary Old Hollywood March Films Student Information The Guardian Acting Cinematography
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...