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The Green Fog is a new version, in a wonderfully oblique fashion, of Hitchcock’s Vertigo; it could also have been named San Francisco Plays Itself or, to borrow a title from Peter Greenaway, Vertical Features Remake. Hitchcock’s film is one of the most vertically obsessed films ever, and The Green Fog follows suit, but since this is a work co-directed by Guy Maddin, you can imagine that it’s also obsessive on many other levels that Hitchcock could never have dreamed of. The Green Fog tells a story of sorts, essentially reproducing the shape of Vertigo—with some room for facetiously digressive play—using clips from assorted films and TV series, all shot... on location in San Francisco, to stand in for moments of Hitchcock’s film. —Jonathan Romney, Film Comment
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
2017 | 63 min. | USA | Color | English | Not Rated | DCP
DIRECTED BY: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson
WITH: Rock Hudson, Karl Malden, Chuck Norris, John Saxon (archive footage)