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Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 psychological thriller was initially a commercial and critical disappointment, grossing just $3.2 million in its first US run. By 2012 it had dethroned Citizen Kane at the top of the Sight & Sound Greatest Films poll -- a stunning reversal that confirmed it as Hitchcock's most obsessive and technically daring work, built around a double-exposure dolly-zoom technique he invented for the film.

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