San Francisco: Films: SAN FRANCISCO

SAN FRANCISCO

Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 — Acrophobic detective James Stewart becomes obsessed with platinum blond Kim Novak on the hilly San Francisco streets in a Hitchcock classic.

Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood, 1989 — A killer punk, Scorpio, makes the day of Eastwood’s detective all across the city on the hill in a thinly veiled version of the famed Zodiac murders.

The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese, 1978 — Directed by Marty in the fertile period between Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, the intimate, festive film documents The Band’s farewell concert on Thanksgiving 1976 at San Francisco’s Winterland.

Harold and Maude, Hal Ashby, 1971 — Rarely has a Hollywood movie combined whimsy and suicide with more grace than this cult comedy shot on location in the Bay Area about a morbid youth (Bud Cort) infatuated with a free-spirited septuagenarian (Ruth Gordon).