| The Culture Club Gallery in Hong Kong pays tribute to master film-maker Alfred Hitchcock with a screening of his movie, Vertigo, on September 17. The event begins at 8 p.m.
San Francisco detective John “Scottie” Ferguson (played by James Stewart) develops a fear of heights after seeing a police officer fall and die in a rooftop chase. His vertigo when looking down from heights prompts him to retire from police work.
Later Scottie is hired as a private investigator by a college acquaintance who wants someone to follow his wife (played by Kim Novak). The acquaintance worries about his wife and says she sometimes wanders in a trancelike state. One day Scottie follows her to Fort Point at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, where she walks to the edge and jumps.
In 1989, Vertigo was recognized by the United States Library of Congress as a “culturally, historically and aesthetically significant” film and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. In 2005, a British book, 100 Greatest Movies of All Time, ranked Vertigo second only to Goodfellas.
Culture Club Gallery
Central, Hong Kong
(September 12, 2009)
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