Festival proceedings then move over to the Trinity Long Room HUB in Trinity College Dublin from Wednesday 13 – Friday 15 August for three more days of presentations, talks, interviews and panel discussions, including a number of presentations with a focus on the music score of Vertigo written by Bernard Herrmann. Interestingly, Vertigo was not favourably received by either critics or audiences on on its initial release, due to its complicated plot and deviation from the typical Hollywood romantic love story/thriller that Hitchcock had made his name. However, the passage of time has seen Vertigo growing in appeal, and it is now considered one of Hitchcock’s most personal films. The disturbing themes of obsession and casting against type of the traditionally wholesome James Stewart, as a disturbed and obsessed detective trying to fashion Kim Novak into the woman he once loved, has fascinated audiences, filmmakers and academics for decades.
