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Kim Novak

Vertigo connects Novak to Fort Point, the Legion of Honor and Mission Dolores in San Francisco.

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Kim Novak
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WORKS

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MOMENTS

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1958 · film

Vertigo — Fort Point

Fort Point beneath the Golden Gate is where Scottie rescues Madeleine from the bay, pairing the Civil War fort with the film’s most decisive plunge.

Vertigo — location reference ↗︎
1958 · film

Vertigo — Legion of Honor

At the Legion of Honor, Madeleine studies the portrait of Carlotta while Scottie watches her; museum looking becomes the grammar of obsession.

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1958 · film

Vertigo — Mission San Francisco de Asís

Mission Dolores and its cemetery give Madeleine’s invented past an address, while the active sacred site requires restrained visiting.

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1958 · film

Vertigo — Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is both orientation and threat: the city’s most recognisable line placed above the water where the mystery turns physical.

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1958 · film

Vertigo — Union Square

Union Square returns Scottie’s pursuit to hotels, flowers and shop windows—the public surfaces from which he tries to reconstruct a woman.

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Suspense on the waterfront, chases on impossible grades and music built in shared rooms.

WORLD · Movies

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Spiral: follow her, and find which places were never there.

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