your last message prompted me to revisit rope and rear window this week, haha. i usually watch them a few times a year, but no matter how many times i've seen them, i always sit transfixed until they end. it's also nice to hear a positive response to vertigo right off the bat - most people seem to consider it a letdown after they see it for the first time, probably because it doesn't really have that edge-of-your-seat suspense that these other ones do. but of course it's captivating in a whole different (hypnotic) way. also, i often hear criticisms about the madeline/murder reveal being three quarters of the way through, rather than at the end. i usually suggest that the reveal serves a significant function because of its placement within the plot - namely, that it realigns the viewer's identification from scottie to madeline - but most people i talk to aren't having it, haha. oh well.