Jason Blum on 'Vertigo': Alfred Hitchcock Possessed Me - Variety
But it is, perversely, that desire that makes “Vertigo,” and all of the best thrillers, so scary: If an audience doesn't understand ...
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What I’ve always loved about movies is the way one can take over your brain for two hours in a way that no other medium can. I have never been as possessed by paintings or music or books the way I have been by movies. And no movie has possessed me with such precision and craft and intensity as “ <anchor>Vertigo</anchor>.”
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