Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Vertigo (1958) will return to the big screen at Thai Film Archive, Salaya, Nakhon Pathom, for a special screening as part of their annual Cinema Lecture event at 2pm on April 3.
The film stars James Stewart as former detective John "Scottie" Ferguson, who is forced into early retirement after an incident causes him to develop vertigo. Scottie is asked by a friend Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore) to watch his wife Madeleine (Kim Novak), who is behaving strangely. Scottie soon becomes obsessed with Madeleine, and another woman who looks just like her.
Vertigo was one of the first films to use the dolly zoom, an in-camera effect that distorts perspective to create disorientation, later referred to as "the Vertigo effect". With a haunting score by Bernard Herrmann, Vertigo is today hailed as a cinematic masterpiece. Even after more than 60 years, Vertigo still reveals new details every time you watch it. The film is often included in the lists of greatest films ever made, and has appeared repeatedly in polls of the best films by the American Film Institute.
To further unravel the enigma of Vertigo, Thai Film Archive will also host a seminar with critic and film professor Prawit TaengAksorn, who is an expert in the study of Hitchcock's works. Prawit is also the author of Tamnan Ratueg-kwan Alfred Hitchcock (The Legendary Thriller Alfred Hitchcock).
The event will be held on April 3, at 2pm at Sala Cinema Theater, Thai Film Archive, free of charge. Reservations can be made at fapot.or.th/main/news/709.
