Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece

Fear

May 2009 •Dutch

In Fear, documentary filmmaker Michiel van Erp creates a collage of inhabitants of the city of Amsterdam who struggle with various anxiety disorders. Today, more patients with anxiety disorders seek professional help than those who suffer from depression, making anxiety the number one mental illness in the Netherlands. This film will show how a small number of those patients attempt to overcome their fears, in order to get on with their lives in the crowded cosmopolitan city that Amsterdam is today.

The Green Fog

January 2018 •English

A tribute to a fascinating film shot by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, and to the city of San Francisco, California, where the magic was created; but also a challenge: how to pay homage to a masterpiece without using its footage; how to do it simply by gathering images from various sources, all of them haunted by the curse of a mysterious green fog that seems to cause irrepressible vertigo…

Terror in the Aisles

October 1984 •English

A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.

Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess

September 2004 •English

Documentary short focusing on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1953 film I Confess.

Alfred Hitchcock: Master of Suspense

September 2013 •English

This is a wonderful and revealing film about famed horror and suspense director Alfred Hitchcock. You'll see behind-the-scenes of some of his most famous films including Psycho, Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, Vertigo and many more! Containing interviews, unique production shorts, trailers, film clips, news segments, and more, this collection offers a rare look into the life and times of this man who became a Hollywood legend and the undisputed Master of Suspense!

Screenwriter John Michael Hayes on 'Rear Window'

March 2001 •English

Screenwriter John Michael Hayes reminisces about his partnership with Alfred Hitchcock during the making of the classic 1954 film Rear Window.

Hitchcock/Truffaut

September 2015 •English

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.

'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic

March 2001 •English

A documentary about Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1954 film Rear Window.

Vertigo

December 2013 •Italian

78/52

October 2017 •English

The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the story of the man behind the curtain and his greatest obsession.

The Illustrated Hitchcock

July 1972 •English

Film director Hitchcock discusses his life and career in long talks with Pia Lindstrom (newscaster and daughter of Hitchcock star Ingrid Berman) and with film historian William Everson. Excerpts from several films illustrate these interviews. Discussion topics include: what is fear?, method acting vs. film acting, the difference between the usual "Who Done It" mystery and what he considers to be real suspense. His choice of leading ladies and why (Bergman, Baxter, Kelly, Marie Saint, Leigh, etc.).

Phoenix Tapes

October 1999 •English

The film comprises edited excerpts from 40 Hitchcock films in six chapters, each focusing on a different motif that reveals some of Hitchcock’s dark obsessions and techniques.

Shepperton Babylon

August 2005 •English

A sardonic look at the dark secrets of the British Film Industry of the 1920s and 30s, where scandal and sordid behaviour was almost as rife as in Hollywood.

Mystery Train: Hitchcock and The Lady Vanishes

November 2007 •English

This video essay, featuring film scholar Leonard Leff, addresses the 1938 Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes' British context and political underpinnings and the details and techniques that undeniably make it a 'Hitchcock picture.'

Eyes of Hitchcock

September 2014 •English

When characters stare at the camera in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the look is almost always associated with the threat of death (through the eyes of a victim, a murderer, a witness). This momentary suspension between death and life is partly what makes Hitchcock the indisputable master of suspense.

Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film

January 2000 •English

A short documentary about the Making Of Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943).

Vertigo

Invalid date •English

A retired detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

Constantine: The House of Mystery

May 2022 •English

John Constantine wakes up in the eerie House of Mystery with no recollection of how he got there. Fortunately, Zatanna and his friends are all there. Unfortunately, they have a bad habit of turning into demons and ripping him to shreds, over and over again!

The Summer of Sangaile

July 2015 •Lithuanian

Seventeen-year-old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at the summer aeronautical show, nearby her parents' lakeside villa. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds in her teenage love, the only person that truly encourages her to fly.

Zid

November 2014 •Hindi

A journalist, who is still in love with his ex-girlfriend, becomes the obsession of his landlord's daughter.