VERTIGO is my favourite film because it is quite simply the most emotional experience I have ever had with a work of art. Alfred Hitchcock is history’s greatest director and this is his magnum opus. I don’t feel the film works extremely well as a thriller like some people do, but to me this film is not supposed to be a thriller. It’s a rich and cryptic love story that feels like part mystery, part horror and part romance but wholly tragic and on par with the best of Shakespeare in its affective scope. Bernard Herrmann, cinema’s best composer, has never sounded better, and his score for VERTIGO is enough to bring tears to my eyes, even unaccompanied by Hitchcock’s magic eye. The most amazing aspect of VERTIGO is that no matter how many times I have seen it, each screening is guaranteed to be an emotionally transcendent encounter.