"The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them."

Join us at the Rio Theatre on August 13 as wetip our collective hat and raise an icy beverage to one of the absolute icons of cinema, Alfred Hitchcock (on his birthday!), with a screening of what many consider to be his greatest cinematic triumph, VERTIGO.

An erotic rumination on obsession and paranoia, it is considered, by many, to be his greatest cinematic achievement. James Stewart stars as an ex-police officer with an intense fear of heights who is hired to surveil an old friend's wife in the hopes of preventing her from committing suicide. But all is not as it seems, as his work moves from voyeurism to obsession. (It goes without saying that Hitchcock's haunting, compelling work is uniquely revelatory about the director's own predilections and hang-ups.) Also starring Kim Novak, and Barbara Bel Geddes.

"Alfred Hitchcock is daring us to leap. He has prepared the ultimate fix for a cinema junkie: a movie to get lost in." (Rolling Stone)

"An unpredictable scary thriller that doubles as a mournful meditation on love, loss, and human comfort." (Rotten Tomatoes)

"Why is this movie Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece? Because no movie plunges us more deeply into the dizzying heart of erotic obsession." (Newsweek)

Friday, August 22
Doors 2:15 pm | Movie 2:45 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 / 128 mins / G) A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.