very different look at the Hitchcock classic<\/a>:<\/p>\n\u201cKim Novak is certainly a worthy subject for a documentary. She\u2019s not only the last survivor of the film that many consider the greatest ever made, Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s \u2018Vertigo,\u2019 but she is the nexus of obsession in a film about obsession that has inspired so much obsession in the 67 years since its release itself. At 92, her star power is as grand and magnificent as ever. But more than commanding your gaze as any great star does, and as Hitchcock certainly did in that ultimate film about \u2018the gaze,\u2019 Novak also holds your attention as a uniquely thoughtful artist in her own right.<\/p>\n
\u2018Vertigo\u2019 has clearly haunted her the way that it has generations of film lovers. Aside from its reputation and its inherent artistic greatness on many levels, it\u2019s the one time in any movie that Novak was able to interrogate the very thing that frustrated her so much about her Hollywood career: That the industry was unable to see beyond the surface of her. And so she talks at length about how the characters of Madeleine and Judy speak to her deeply and remain with her and part of her. She talks about \u2018Vertigo\u2019 as if both an insider and outsider \u2014 yes, she\u2019s in the movie and the very heart of it, but, perhaps because of Hitchcock\u2019s way of moving actors around like chess pieces, as objects for him to control, the way she talks about it is still somewhat removed, like that was another person onscreen and her at the same time.<\/p>\n
That means that, when she speaks about \u2018Vertigo,\u2019 it\u2019s not that different from what any diehard obsessive of it would have to say, even as her experience is fundamentally singular. Per its title, \u2018Kim Novak\u2019s Vertigo\u2019 lays bare the gulf between what\u2019s onscreen and what\u2019s real life, quite potently. Between the surface and what lies beneath. Between Kim Novak the movie star and Kim Novak the person.\u201d<\/p>\n
Available to stream October 1<\/p>\n
Other highlights:
\u2013 \u201cDeath Ship\u201d (10\/6)
\u2013 \u201cLiving Dead Girl\u201d (10\/20)
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