VertiGoals
VertiGoals is devoted to Hitchcock's classic and a selection of films in its orbit. All screenings are free and open to the public.
Location:
Humanities Quadrangle, Lower Level
320 York Street
New Haven, CT
VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, 35mm, 128 mins)
7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, 2025
New print! Obsession and manipulation are taken to dizzying heights in what many consider the greatest film ever made. James Stewart is Scottie, a San Francisco detective doing a job for an old college friend, and Kim Novak is the object of his infatuation, the friend's beguiling wife Madeleine...or is she Judy, or Carlotta? Dazzling cinematography by Robert Burks is accompanied by Bernard Herrmann's spellbinding score. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
THE GREEN FOG (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson, 2017, DCP, 63 mins)
7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025
This audacious recreation of VERTIGO using found footage taken from other films and TV shows set in San Francisco is “the work of a sensibility as impish as it is scholarly, animated by a mischievous sense of the medium’s possibilities” (Justin Chang). It toys with “reality and representation, time and space, genre and gender” (Geoff Andrew) with thoroughly entertaining results. Followed by a 30-minute talk by Brian Meacham on VERTIGO's preservation history. DCP from the filmmakers.
BELL, BOOK & CANDLE (Richard Quine, 1958, 16mm, 106 mins)
2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025
Kim Novak hides her true identity from Jimmy Stewart after deceiving him into falling for her. Sound familiar? Their lesser-known '58 film finds the pair in the Greenwich Village beatnik scene, where witches cast love spells, a warlock plays bongos, and a hapless publisher finds magic in romance. This supernatural comedy co-stars Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Elsa Lanchester, and a dozen Siamese cats playing Pyewacket. 16mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
OBSESSION (Brian De Palma, 1976, DCP, 98 mins)
7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025
A rich New Orleans real estate developer’s guilt over his wife’s violent death leads to an obsession with a woman who resembles her. With a screenplay by Paul Schrader, cinematography by Vilmos Szigmond, and an Oscar-nominated score by Bernard Herrmann (who considered it his best), OBSESSION is both a melodrama and a neo-noir thriller, one that displays its debt to Hitchcock in its story and style. Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, and John Lithgow star.
VERTIGHOST (Lynn Hershman Leeson, 2017, DCP, 13 mins)
THE ROYAL ROAD (Jenni Olson, 2015, DCP, 65 mins)
2 p.m. Sunday, March 2, 2025
Two experimental filmmakers examine Hitchcock’s VERTIGO from very different angles. With a focus on identity and authenticity, Leeson recreates scenes from the film in VERTIGHOST to explore the construction of reality in life and art. In THE ROYAL ROAD, Olson follows the Mission Trail in a cinematic essay on nostalgia, film history, the colonization of California, and the pursuit of unavailable women. VERTIGHOST courtesy of the artist; Altman Siegel, San Francisco; and Bridget Donahue, New York; THE ROYAL ROAD courtesy of Frameline.
HIGH ANXIETY (Mel Brooks, 1977, 16mm, 93 mins)
7 p.m. Thursday, March 6, 2025
Dr. Richard Thorndyke (Brooks) is hired as the new head of the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, where he begins to suspect foul play in another doctor’s recent demise. Can he overcome his paralyzing “high anxiety” disorder and bring sanity to the sanatorium before a killer strikes again? Brooks regulars Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, and Harvey Korman lend stellar support to this parody of Hitchcock’s hits. 16mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, 35mm, 128 mins)
7 p.m. Friday, March 7, 2025
Second screening added! Vertigo is a film about obsession, duplication, and the dogged pursuit of a missed opportunity. Therefore it's no surprise that our audience demanded another chance to see Hitchcock's classic after the first screening drew a bigger crowd than Ernie's Restaurant. Join us as we give this masterpiece another spin. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
See the full Yale Film Archive screening schedule here.