Carr, Jay (2002). The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films. Da Capo Press. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-306-81096-1 . Retrieved July 27, 2012. Rare Limited Edition silkscreen print designed by Jonathan Burton. Beautiful silkscreen (Variant Edition) poster from artist Jonathan Burton. Jonathan had this to say about the print;

x 28″ six inches shorter than the US insert, very nice size to frame. Italian poster illustrators are some of the best in the industry. Thomas Narcejac, 89, Author of Crime Novels". The New York Times. July 5, 1998 . Retrieved December 1, 2007.In 2005, Vertigo came in second (to Goodfellas) in British magazine Total Film 's book 100 Greatest Movies of All Time. [107] In 2008, an Empire poll of readers, actors, and critics named it the 40th greatest movie ever made. [108] The film was Voted at No. 8 on the list of "100 Greatest Films" by the prominent French magazine Cahiers du cinéma in 2008. [109] In 2010, The Guardian ranked it as the 3rd-best crime film of all time. [110] Vertigo ranked 3rd in BBC's 2015 list of the 100 greatest American films. [111] Gilbey, Ryan (October 17, 2010). "Vertigo: No 3 best crime film of all time". The Guardian . Retrieved July 12, 2021. Elster's fictitious Dogpatch shipyard office was filmed at the real (or simulated with mattes) Union Iron Works shipyard, by then the post-WW2 Bethlehem Steel shipyard. Elster's office has a MIssion telephone exchange (MI or 64) prefix, regarding which Midge says "Why, that's Skid Row", probably because the city's southern MIssion exchange served all of the south-of-slot (SoMa today) and southern (Mission District) phones, and this shipyard area of course met the description of a Skid Row. Empire's 500 Greatest Movies of All Time". Empire Magazine. January 1, 2014 . Retrieved January 1, 2014.

In 1989, Vertigo was recognized as a "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" film by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in the first year of the registry's voting. [106] Nolte, Carl (November 13, 2014). "Victor Gotti, restaurateur who owned fabled Ernie's, dies at 92". SFGate.NY Times: Vertigo". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2009. Archived from the original on January 31, 2009 . Retrieved December 23, 2008. Shipka, Danny (2011). Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960–1980 (illustrateded.). McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-4888-3.

Obsession, a 1976 film by Brian De Palma, is heavily influenced by Vertigo, while his 1984 thriller Body Double combines the plot elements of both Vertigo and Rear Window. Vertigo". Universal Pictures International (archived). Archived from the original on July 19, 2011.Above: the Spanish poster by Fernando Albericio, quite similar in composition, though not in color palette, to the Australian design. The Spanish title translates as “From the Dead” which is similar to the title of the 1954 French novel, D’entre les morts, that Vertigo was based on. DUE): 39 x 55″ This is the standard poster size used in Italy. Italian poster illustrators are some of the best in the industry. Harvey Danger: Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone?". Sputnik Music. July 8, 2009 . Retrieved December 6, 2013. The Carlotta Valdes headstone featured in the film (created by the props department) was left at Mission Dolores. Eventually, the headstone was removed as the mission considered it disrespectful to the dead to house a tourist attraction grave for a fictional person. All other cemeteries in San Francisco were evicted from city limits in 1912, so the screenwriters had no other option but to locate the grave at Mission Dolores.

Though I’ve seen a few foreign language versions of Bass’s design (like this Norwegian example) it seems that most countries went their own ways, perhaps wary of how well the film had performed at home. I have collected a selection of international posters below. Plot [ edit ] Drive-in advertisement from 1958 "Madeleine" at Golden Gate Bridge, Fort Point, shortly before she jumps into the bay. Original theatrical trailer for Vertigo (1958) x 40″ Most common poster size used in the UK. British Quads are horizontal and may have different artwork to the US one sheet. Like a US one sheet they normally come in two versions. Like a US one sheet they are usually supplied single-sided or more commonly now as a double sided poster. Chris Marker's 1983 video-essay Sans Soleil makes reference to the movie, declaring it the only film "capable of portraying impossible memory" over footage of Vertigo's shooting locations and stills from the film. [133] Over time the film has been re-evaluated by film critics and has moved higher in esteem in most critics' opinions. Every ten years since 1952, the British Film Institute's film magazine, Sight & Sound, has asked the world's leading film critics to compile a list of the 10 greatest films of all time. [84] In the 1962 and 1972 polls, Vertigo was not among the top 10 films in voting. Only in 1982 did Vertigo enter the list, and then in 7th place. [85] By 1992 it had advanced to 4th place, [86] by 2002 to 2nd, and in 2012 to 1st place in both the crime genre, and overall, ahead of Citizen Kane in 2nd place; in 2022, the Sight & Sound poll ranked Vertigo 2nd place. [87] In the 2012 Sight & Sound director's poll of the greatest films ever made Vertigo was ranked 7th. [88] In the earlier 2002 version of the list the film ranked 6th among directors. [89] [90] In 2022 edition of the list the film ranked 6th in the director's poll. [91] In 1998 Time Out conducted a poll and Vertigo was voted the 5th greatest film of all time. [92] The Village Voice ranked Vertigo at No. 3 in its Top 250 "Best Films of the Century" list in 1999, based on a poll of critics. [93] Entertainment Weekly voted it the 19th Greatest film of all time in 1999. [94] In January 2002, the film was voted at No. 96 on the list of the "Top 100 Essential Films of All Time" by the National Society of Film Critics. [95] [96] In 2009, the film was ranked at No. 10 on Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo 's Top 10 Non-Japanese Films of All Time list. [97] In 2022, Time Out magazine ranked the film at No.15 on their list of "The 100 best thriller films of all time". [98]

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It might be the most memorable film poster of all time. Striking graphics, striking color contrast, and minimalism challenged everything we knew about movie marketing, making the Vertigo poster a pivotal moment in graphic design. For that, we can thank Saul Bass. a b "Vertigo is named 'greatest film of all time' ". BBC News. August 2, 2012 . Retrieved August 18, 2012.