Mission Dolores

May 9, 2012, 3 Comments

UPDATE: It is important to remember that while California Missions have been hailed as places of peace, they also have deep and complicated histories, including slavery, violence, and forced religious conversion. My last stop on this trip to San Francisco was Mission Dolores. It was on our way back to the airport, and so Patrick…

In Search of Vertigo

May 8, 2012, 4 Comments

San Francisco has certainly changed, that’s for sure. I thought that locating many of the filming sites from Vertigo would be rather simple, heck I had a book to tell me, didn’t I? Well…think again. As I walked the streets of San Francisco on the hunt for what remained of Hitchcock’s “tortured Valentine” to the…

“But You Said Grey, Sir.”

May 2, 2012, 5 Comments

If you’ve been following me on Twitter or are my friend on Facebook, then you will have fallen victim to my endless ramblings about my daunting search for The Grey Suit from Vertigo for my upcoming trip to San Francisco. Yes, I am that much of a film geek that I feel that I simply…

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Kim Novak

Mission Dolores

In Search of Vertigo

“But You Said Grey, Sir.”