Sight & Sound Top 10 - Vertigo + Introduction

Introduced by Matthew Wake from the London Film Academy. Mathew is film theory teacher with over a decade of experience working in HE, exploring film history, genre and aesthetics. Matt holds an MA in Film Studies and is passionate about a wide variety of genres and filmmaking styles, maintaining a specialist predilection for horror cinema.

Number 2 in the Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022.

Considered one of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest cinematic achievements, Vertigo is a dreamlike thriller from the Master of Suspense. Set in San Francisco, the film creates a dizzying web of mistaken identity, passion and murder after an acrophobic detective (James Stewart) rescues a mysterious blonde (Kim Novak) from the bay, and must unravel the secrets of the past to find the key to his future.