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Critical Essay by Penelope Gilliatt
Brian De Palma's "Obsession" is an hommage to Hitchcock's "Vertigo."… But it is intellectually muddleheaded in a wa...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
Obsession attitudinizes in three directions: toward the Hitchcockian thriller, toward the old-fashioned tearjerker, and toward the sophisticated European film, with cultur...
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Critical Essay by Barrie Pattison
[In Obsession,] De Palma has suppressed his own strong personal style … consciously manipulating [the familiar Hitchcockian] elements so that the suspense is m...
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Critical Essay by Penelope Gilliatt
