Vertigo

Paul Cornell Talks About His New Political Comic Book, Saucer Country

Bryan Young | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Paul Cornell, Politics, DC Comics, Vertigo, Comics, West Wing, Doctor Who, The West Wing, Saucer Country, X-Files, Books News
Bryan Young

The new ongoing series, which starts this week, is quite cleverly written and covers American politics with a very keen and knowing eye.

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Novak Doubles Down on 'The Artist' 'Rape' Comments

AP | DERRIK J. LANG | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, The Artist, Video, Kim Novak, Vertigo, Kim Novak the Artist Rape, Kim Novak Rape, Hitchcock Vertigo, Bernard Herrmann, The Artist Score, Kim Novak the Artist, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — Kim Novak is clarifying why she used the word "rape" to describe how she felt about "The Artist." The 79-year-old "Vertigo" actre...

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Interview: Douglas Rushkoff On Media Literacy and His New Graphic Novel

Bryan Young | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: DC Comics, Douglas Rushkoff, Vertigo, Dc Vertigo, Media Theory, Media Literacy, Pop Culture, Graphic Novels, Rushkoff, Video Games, Books News
Bryan Young

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'Vertigo'-ing Movies From 'Rocky' To 'Mean Girls'

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: The Artist, Video, Vertigoed, Vertigo, Kim Novak, Vertigoing, Michel Hazanavicius, Vertigo Score, Vertigo-ing, Bernard Herrmann, Indiewire, The Artist Kim Novak, Vertigo-Ed, Kim Novak the Artist, Mashups, Culture News

How much can changing the music in a movie scene change the scene itself? A new contest challenges people to use the same piece of music over any movi...

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#Scoregate: No Justice, No Peace

Orlando Jones | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Norcross-Georgia, The Artist, Vertigo, Kim Novak, Snoop Dogg, Bernard Herrmann, Beyonce, Tim Tebow, Blue Ivy Carter, Jayz, Comedy News
Orlando Jones

People angry at Kim Novak are missing the point. When someone reports a rape you're supposed to grab a pitch fork and attack. That's it. Don't think. Don't analyze. Just get a lynch mob together and go after the rapist, stupid.

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Water Parks In Arkansas: A Huffington Post Travel Guide

The Huffington Post | Jane Ellis | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Arkansas, Water Parks, Wild River Country, Video, Vertigo, Boogie Blast, Arkansas Travel, Magic Springs and Crystal Falls, Themed Guides, Travel News

Water parks in Arkansas combine the thrills of an amusement park with the refreshing heat relief of a pool. Because these parks aim to be a one-stop ...

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WATCH: Happy Birthday, Alfred Hitchcock!

Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock Birthday, Goodfellas, Rear Window, Hitchcock Birthday, Grace Kelly, Vertigo, Psycho, Salvador Dali, North by Northwest, The Lady Vanishes, Film, Suspicion, UK Arts, Movies, Arts News

On August 13, we celebrate the memory of Alfred Hitchcock, who was born on this day in 1899. If he were as immortal as his films, this would make him ...

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Long Lost Hitchcock Film Found

AP | By DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Betty Compson, Academy of Motion Puicture Arts and Sciences, Rear Window, Vertigo, National Film Preservation Foundation, The White Shadow, The Birds, Silent Film, Film, Graham Cutts, UK Arts, Movies, New Zealand Film Archive, Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho, Samuel Goldwyn Theater, Annette Melville, Arts News

LOS ANGELES -- Alfred Hitchcock is still surprising his fans. Film preservationists said Wednesday they've found the first half of the earliest known...

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Man Afraid Of Heights Gets Stuck On Bungee Ride (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Strange Carnivals, Video, Weird Dallas, Stuck on Bungee Jump, Vertigo, Weird Carnies, William Mancera, Fear of Heights, Thalia Rodriguez, Weird News News

DALLAS -- A suburban Dallas woman's well-meaning attempt to help her future husband overcome his fear of heights went horribly wrong when a bungee rid...

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Survivor 22: Rerun Island: Russell Blows It, Mansweater Sucks It, and Big Mouth Stamps It.

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: North by Northwest, Survivor Episode Recap, Reality TV, Vertigo, Survivor, Survivor-Recap, Jerry Herman, Cbs, Alfred Hitchcock, Russell Hantz, Survivor 22 Recap, Mission: Impossible, Tarzan, Comedy and Humor, Survivor 22, Survivor 22 Episode 4, Hello Dolly, Lost, Jeff Probst, Polymorphus Perversity, Comedy, The Mentalist, Television, This Week in Terrible Television, Strangers on a Train, Entertainment News
Tallulah Morehead

We opened this week with a terrifying nightmare vision: Russell had cloned thousands of exact replicas of himself, and they were waking up, and flying off to attack!

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The Agenda: Free Cirque Du Soleil Performance At Lunchtime

Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Vertigo, Cirque Du Soleil, LA Events, Los Angeles News

If you're in Downtown Los Angeles, drop by the Music Center Plaza at lunchtime to catch a free performance by Cirque du Soleil, as well as other festi...

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PLAN ForYourArt: December 22-January 5

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julian Hoeber, Holidays, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Moca, Latin America, Vertigo, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Chris Mburu, Los Angeles, Iannis Xenakis, Bootleg Theater, Janice Gomez, Alfred Hitchcock, Jennifer Arnold, Los Angeles Arts Month, Patti Lee, L.A. County Arts, Jeffrey Soros, Hammer Museum, Arts, Harvard Law School, Jacques Tati, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

Learn about how artists from Latin America explored perception and sensation in a guided tour of the exhibition Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space.

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Exclusive Preview of How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less

Bryan Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, DC Comics, Vertigo, Israeli, Comics, Palestini, Israel, Sarah Glidden, Birthright Tour, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Books News
Bryan Young

This book is not pro-Israel or pro-Palestine. It's not anti-Israel or anti-Palestine either, it's pro-reality. And in reality, nothing is ever really in black and white. I

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Through Hildegard's Eyes: Margarethe von Trotta on Vision

Dan Lybarger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, Dan Lybarger, German New Wave, Hildegard Von Bingen, Vision: From the Life of Hildegard Von Bingen, Volker Schlöndorf, Vertigo, Film Forum, Margarethe Von Trotta, Film, Barbara Sukowa, Arts News
Dan Lybarger

German writer-director Margarethe von Trotta started directing movies in the 1970s, at a time when few women were behind the cameras. This week, von Trotta explained how much we still have to learn from a woman who lived centuries ago.

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Exclusive Preview of DC Comics' Cuba: My Revolution

Bryan Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Communism, DC Comics, Vertigo, Comics, Bay of Pigs, Dean-Haspiel, Che Guevara, Vertigo Comics, Fidel Castro, Cuba, Books News
Bryan Young

I've long extolled the virtues of DC Comics and their Vertigo line of original graphic novels, and they've always been challenging the medium to do bigger and better things. Cuba: My Revolution beautifully tells the tale of a Cuba I'd never really read about.

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Exclusive Preview of DC Comic's Katrina Comic Dark Rain

Bryan Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: DC Comics, Fema, New Orleans, Vertigo, Bush, Blackwater, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina, Vertigo Comics, Entertainment News
Bryan Young

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What To Do with My Social Media Accounts in the Event of my Untimely Death

Samara O'Shea | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Social Media, Tweet, Blog, Social Networking, Defriend, Last Will and Testament, Username, Vertigo, E-Mail, Password, Twitter, Web Site, Redacted, Facebook, Wordpress, Death, Healthy Living News
Samara O'Shea

There are plenty of people I'm friends with only through social networking. They need to know that I've died, too. I'd hate to have them think I defriended them.

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Preview: Scott Snyder and Stephen King's American Vampire Brings Horror Back to Vampires

Bryan Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: DC Comics, Dc, Scott Snyder, Vertigo, Stephen King, Vampires, American Vampire, Twilight, Vertigo-Comics, Vertigo Comics, Twilight Saga, Books News
Bryan Young

DC Comics' Vertigo imprint has teamed up with short story author Scott Snyder and master of horror Stephen King to tell a uniquely American vampire story.

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Shutter Island Paradise

Sam Wasson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Aviator, Film Noir, Vertigo, Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese, After Hours, Horror, Alfred Hitchcock, Bringing Out the Dead, The Age of Innocence, The Departed, Taxi Driver, Dennis Lehane, Cape Fear, Leonardo Dicaprio, Michael Haneke, Entertainment News
Sam Wasson

Shutter Island pushes our conception of Scorsese to the brink. It tests him, proving that he has what it takes to navigate through the film's several time frames and planes of consciousness.

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Chinatown's 35th Anniversary Edition and the Polanski Scandal

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ewan McGregor, Tony Blair, The Ghost, Robert Harris, Vertigo, Faye Dunaway, Los Angeles, John Huston, Alfred Hitchcock, Kim Cattrall, Warren Beatty, Godfather, Jerry Goldsmith, Chinatown, Jane Fonda. Mad Men, Pierce Brosnan, Jack Nicholson, Roman Polanski, Robert Evans, James Bond, Anthea Sylbert, Richard Sylbert, Governor Pat Brown, Entertainment News
William Bradley

On the surface, it's a period detective picture. Beneath, it's much more. The film creates its own mesmerizing world through evocative music, costuming, and production design.

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DC Vertigo Writer Joshua Dysart Talks Politics, Comics, and The Unknown Soldier

Bryan Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unknown Soldier, DC Comics, Vertigo, Dc, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Vertigo Comics, Joshua Dysart, Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, Media News
Bryan Young

The new Unknown Soldier books paint a vivid picture of a civilization coming undone by the indignities of war.

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Positional Vertigo

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russ Feingold, Vertigo, Patrick Leahy, Obama FISA, Senator Dodd, Fisa, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

To think of Barack Obama massaging the Patriot Act to win the hearts of faux moderate Republicans, and midwest ranchers, is, at the very least, unsettling.

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