"Citizen Kane's main rival

Rating: Null/10 (25 February 2016)

"Vertigo" is Hitchcock's most resonant, inexhaustible, resonant film. The plot is no more relevant that the libretto of the best opera. It's the combined "music" created by the cinematography, directing, acting, and Bernard Hermann's score that makes "Vertigo" the screen's equivalent of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde." There's no more spinte-tingling moment in all of cinema than Judy's transformation into Madeleine as seen through the eyes of the screen's most talented, versatile, intense, believable actor, James Stewart . No moment affirms the power of eat cinema to exert a suspension of disbelief rivaling, as Coleridge would maintain, the Almighty Creator's.