Directed by Brian De Palma • 1976 • United States
Starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow
Nearly twenty years after his wife’s tragic death, a guilt-ridden man (Cliff Robertson) meets her exact look-alike (Geneviève Bujold)—cue an obsessive makeover and an intricate series of double crosses. Sound familiar? With a script by Paul Schrader, endlessly swirling camerawork by cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, and a deliriously romantic score by composer Bernard Herrmann, Brian De Palma’s florid, New Orleans–set tribute to Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO creates a spellbinding mood all its own.
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The Parallax View
Directed by Alan J. Pakula • 1974 • United States
Starring Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William DanielsPerhaps no director tapped into the pervasive sense of dread and mistrust that defined the 1970s more effectively than Alan J. Pakula, who, in the second installment of his celebrated Paranoia ...
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Sisters
Directed by Brian De Palma • 1973 • United States
Starring Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles DurningMargot Kidder is Danielle, a beautiful model separated from her Siamese twin, Dominique. When a hotshot reporter (Jennifer Salt) suspects Dominique of a brutal murder, she becomes dangerously...
