Obsession [Blu-ray]

Director: Brian De Palma Brian De Palma

Overview

Brian DePalma's spin on Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo casts Cliff Robertson as widower Michael Courtland, who meets an enigmatic young woman (Genevieve Bujold) who is an exact double of the wife he lost 16 years ago.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/15/2019
UPC:	0826663192827
Original Release:	1976
Source:	Shout Factory
Language:	English
Sales rank:	18,182

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Cliff Robertson	Michael Courtland
Geneviève Bujold	Elizabeth Courtland, Sandra Portinari
John Lithgow	Robert La Salle
Sylvia 'Kuumba' Williams	Maid,Actor
Wanda Blackman	Amy Courtland
Pat McNamara	3rd Kidnapper,3rd Kidnaper
Stanley Reyes	Inspector Brie
Nick Kreiger	Farber
Stocker Fontelieu	Dr. Ellman
Don Hood	Ferguson
Andrea Esterhazy	D'Annunzio
Tom Felleghy	Actor
Clyde Ventura	Actor
Andre Eszterhazy	D'Annunzio
George Litto	Actor
Bernard Herrmann	Composer

Technical Credits

Paul Schrader

Brian De Palma	Director
Harry N. Blum	Producer
George Litto	Producer
Paul Schrader	Screenwriter
Joe Lombardi	Special Effects
David Ronne	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Although film critic-turned-screenwriter Paul Schrader intended Obsession as a reworking of both Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) and Yasujiro Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon (1962), director Brian De Palma plays up the Hitchcock legacy in style and eeriness. Vilmos Zsigmond's cinematography gives the New Orleans and Florence locations the foggy dreaminess of Michael's memory, while Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo-like score (his second-to-last work) evokes both the romance and the threat of Michael's adoration of the dead. Although Obsession got a positive reception, and Herrmann's score was nominated for an Oscar, its haunting mind games did not prove as popular as the more visceral scares of De Palma's other 1976 release, Carrie.