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A starter pack of twenty vertiginous movies • Journal • A  Magazine • , Life in canada

Feeling “a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, associated particularly with looking down from a great height” in real life is rarely pleasant. But feeling this sensation while watching a movie can be a wonderful experience. Even if it involves the slight puckering of a certain orifice. I have always been drawn to films that exploit the cinematic possibilities of vertigo. Tall buildings, cliffs, mountains, bridges, sometimes (but mostly not) planes, hot air balloons and even a tall ladder can provide the circumstances to help a film lean vertiginous. There is a nebulous art to depicting phobia-inducing height in…

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