Pssst, want to check out The Green Fog in our new look?
Information
- Year
- 2017
- Runtime
- 63 min.
- Directors
- Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson
- Genre
- Mystery
- Rating *
- 7.0
- Votes *
- 0
- Checks
- 170
- Favs
- 23
- Dislikes
- 2
- Favs/checks
- 13.5% (1:7)
- Favs/dislikes
- 12:1
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Siskoid
I'm a big fan of Guy Maddin's and believe Vertigo to be Hitchcock's artistic peak, so The Green Fog, Maddin's experimental remake/tribute to that film was intriguing to me from the premise on. It's a work of editing - the editors are credited as co-directors, which I think is quite proper - using film and television footage sourced from projects shot in San Francisco (except Vertigo itself, aside from its title card) to recreate Vertigo's story. You should either rewatch Vertigo before you watch this, or have seen it so often it sticks in your mind, to get the most out of it, but it is BRILLIANT. Evocative and playful, it recreates the story and the feeling of Hitchcock's original as a one-hour mostly-silent, and you might be astonished to find you can follow it despite the characters switching actors all the time. It's got a fun sense of humor - calls its first chapter Weekend at Ernie's, for example, and the use of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is especially amusing - and might tickle your nostalgia for the sources used. The green fog itself, like a supplementary story layered onto Vertigo - or perhaps a replacement for that film's motif - is the one element I don't find particularly successful. I don't mind it, but it seems to interfere with the experiment. Unless I'm missing something? 1 year 3 months ago -
