Vertigo this week.  WALL•E next week.  As always, follow along on our iCheckMovies list, and be sure to let us know how you’d rank the movies in the comments below.

Vertigo – May 9, 1958

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Producer: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor

Actors: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes

Distributor: Paramount Pictures

The course of the conversation:

Vertigo was part of the list additions/revision.

Jonathan is struck by the potential film snobbery coming from this.

The virtue(?) of spoilers.

Better than Citizen Kane, or just more boring?

Midge is a great character with no payoff.

Jonathan apparently just doesn’t know enough or care enough about Hitchcock’s style.

Nathaniel stays silent while Jonathan and Michael argue about the character’s feelings for each other.

Then Nathaniel disagrees entirely.

Jimmy Stewart’s acting is great.  In fact, most of the acting is great.

We don’t need confirmation that everything we’ve seen is real, unlike Persona.

The coincidences required to set up this plot are incredibly hard to believe.

The movies called Vertigo, but vertigo has little to do with anything.

The benefits of playing into or against type.

Watch the damn movie.

Defending Indiana Jones.  Again.

Jehovah and Kali Ma are frat mats.  But aliens?  Screw those guys.

Jonathan really doesn’t like voyeuristic movies.

Buy us stuff on Amazon! (Not really.)

Michael falls somewhere in the middle, as usual.

Nathaniel gives a lot of credit to the acting and the cinematography.

A discussion of critical status of movies, as Vertigo overtakes Citizen Kane on certain “Best Ever” lists.

Which movies have expanded our worldview?

Jonathan harps on Nathaniel for his placement of Persona.