THE GREEN FOG

Guy Maddin asks the question: how do you make a film paying homage to a masterpiece without using any of its footage? THE GREEN FOG is the answer. At once a remake, a remix, an interrogation and a celebration of Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO, this movie uses Bay Area-based footage from hundreds of sources — all of them haunted by the curse of a mysterious green fog that seems to cause irrepressible vertigo — to create a new assemblage that still exerts the inexorable pull of Hitchcock’s twisted tale of erotic obsession.

"Miraculously, Maddin succeeds in alchemizing this Hollywood junkola into something strange, new, and frequently wonderful. This collective tantrum is another reminder of why people go to the movies: to see others moved. It could be the most entertaining experimental film ever made." - J.R. Jones