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Rated R. 109 minutes. Brian De Palma. "Body Double" is an exhilarating exercise in pure filmmaking, a thriller in the Hitchcock tradition in which there's no particular point except that the hero is flawed, weak, and in terrible danger -- and we identify with him completely. The movie is so cleverly constructed, with the emphasis on visual ...
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Brian De Palma's "Obsession" is an overwrought melodrama,...
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When Alfred Hitchcock died, the obituaries puzzled over the...
- Obsession
After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful ...
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Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2023. Alan Jones Starburst. Loved Body Double for the same reasons I've loved all his other films: fluid, breath-taking camera work, glossy, sensual ...
Body Double is a 1984 American neo-noir erotic thriller film directed, co-written, and produced by Brian De Palma. It stars Craig Wasson , Gregg Henry , Melanie Griffith and Deborah Shelton . The film is a direct homage to the 1950s films of Alfred Hitchcock , specifically Rear Window , Vertigo and Dial M for Murder , taking plot lines and ...
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Aug 29, 2006 · Review: Body Double. The film is a wicked, feature-length double entendre from a Doublemint era. by Eric Henderson. August 29, 2006. In the introduction to Slant ’s symposium on the director, I mentioned that Brian De Palma was possibly the only mainstream director capable of lobbing a hate crime in the form of a pop film a la Godard’s Weekend.
In Body Double, his 1984 erotic thriller that the critics were much too quick to judge and discard, Brian De Palma succeeded in creating an unforgettable film that at the same time pays an obvious tribute to the works of Alfred Hitchcock and remains somehow completely his own, coherent with his very own stylistic preferences
Permalink. 8/10. De Palma Double Bubble, Toil and Trouble. hitchcockthelegend 22 February 2014. Body Double is directed by Brian De Palma, he also co-writes the screenplay with Robert J. Avrech. It stars Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry, Deborah Shelton, Guy Boyd and Dennis Franz. Music is by Pino Donaggio and cinematography by ...
