Obsession

...location, judging by the back projection shots. Director Brian DePalma made a mystery-thriller inspired by Vertigo in 1976 called Obsession '' with Cliff Robertson and Genevieve Bujold. Bernard Herrmann, who scored ''Vertigo, also scored...

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...he's played more than his share of bad guys in movies. The actor helpfully ticks off some of the titles, including "Blow Out" and "Obsession" for Brian De Palma, and "Cliffhanger," in which Lithgow adopted a British accent and...

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...of film I've ever done. " In 1976, after several small, studio and independent released films that included stand-outs Sisters and Obsession, a small film based on a novel called Carrie was released directed by Brian De Palma. The psychic...

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...did. It became a projection of his desires rather than actual fact." Critical reaction to Obsession was mixed. Roger Ebert wrote, "Brian De Palma's Obsession is an overwrought melodrama, and that's what I like best about it...I don't just...

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...leading ladies, from Grace Kelly to Tippi Hedren. Yet even without this well-documented subtext, "Vertigo" is indelibly haunting. Obsession is not merely its subject, but its method: In no other Hitchcock film do individual hues, images...

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...with elegantly staged set pieces duplicating scenes from great films of the past, only devoid of any depth or meaning (take a peek at Obsession), and larded with peek-a-boo sexploitation and exploitative acts of random violence. As the...

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...to say what they say when they know they're being filmed. De Palma's career unevenness is aggravating. For every "Untouchables" or "Obsession" there's a "Bonfire of the Vanities" or "Mission to Mars." "Redacted" is an anti-"Green...

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...hits decried for their violence (Carrie, Dressed To Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables) to box-office flops that draw passionate defenders (Obsession, The Fury, Blow Out, Femme Fatale). But few De Palma films have been as controversial as...

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...into her life, which sets him up for a whole scenario of love, deception and revenge. De Palma is a big fan of the classic noir films "Obsession" and "Double Indemnity." And it shows all over the place. The movie goes deep into the nutty...

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...some idea of "Femme Fatale's" knotted heritage, and it gets worse, with homages to Hitchcock's "Rear Window" battling homages to his own "Obsession." You need to be a film school graduate to figure out who De Palma is imitating in any given...

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