Vertigo with
Sam Shapiro Talkback

Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo screens as part of the film series The Anticipation of Fear: Alfred Hitchcock's Essentials. The screening is followed by a talkback with series co-curator Sam Shapiro, who taught film courses on Hitchcock at UNC-Charlotte for 30 years. James Stewart plays a retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia who investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, becoming dangerously obsessed with her. Vertigo is now recognized as one of the greatest films of all time, despite its poor initial reception.