The read
It runs a compact 1h 2m.
Synopsis
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…
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes96%
Metacritic78/100
28 audience votes
Key crew
- Galen JohnsonDirector
- Guy MaddinDirector
- Evan JohnsonDirector
- Jacob GarchikOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Chuck NorrisCast
- Michael DouglasCast
- Rock HudsonCast
- Karl MaldenCast
- John SaxonSelf
- Virginia GreyCast
- Joseph CottenCast
- Gina LollobrigidaCast
- Anthony FranciosaCast
- Claude AkinsCast
- Donald SutherlandCast
- Jeff BridgesCast
Stills
Themes
cinema on cinemaessay film