Vertigo's Restoration
Bringing a Masterpiece Back to Life
Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" may stand today as a universally acknowledged masterpiece of cinema, but the journey from its modest initial reception to its current exalted status involved not just a critical reevaluation but also a dramatic physical rescue. By the early 1990s, the film that would eventually dethrone "Citizen Kane" as Sight & Sound's grea…
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