Irrelevant Hitchcock post

Okay, this post is not completely irrelevant. Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles both have credits on What's My Line, don't they?

Yes, I'm reaching. Anyway, a political site I hang around - oh, why be coy, it's NRO - has been chewing over Vertigo vs. Citizen Kane. (Can't talk politics all the time.) I'm definitely on the vertiginous side, as I comment...

Always thought Citizen Kane was a dull Depression sermon: the rich are evil, the rich are evil and...did I mention the rich are evil? No wonder most movie critics still say they love it, even if they're secretly bored silly.

Things really turn sleepy as old man Kane gets older and older and more and more evil. I mean, jeez Orson, we get the flipping point already. Got anything else for us? Oh yeah, "Rosebud." BFD.

Meanwhile, making out with Kim Novak - or just watching Jimmy Stewart make out with Kim Novak - is definitely not boring. Vertigo actually gets more interesting as things go along, not duller and preachier.

But what the hey, everybody has a nose and everybody has an opinion.