Fans of DePalma's "Obsession"?

The '76 homage to Hitchcock that starred Cliff Robertson and Genieve Bujold, I last saw it back in the mid-90's and loved it. I thought about the movie tonight and ordered it. A film you don't often see mentioned.

 

Bernard Herrmann's score makes it.
Don't think Hitch liked the quasi homage.

 

I need to buy this film. And wait for the score to be reissued...

 

The Fury bd is on my want list.
Also, Body Double & Femme Fatale
DePalma wants to do a Steve McQueen ( actor) type movie with Jason Statham.

 

I've owned the DVD for years, but have only watched it once.... and that was so long ago that I barely remember anything about the movie. I really need to dig out my DePalma collection and revisit some of the titles I haven't seen for a while.

 

Always thought this was a great movie. It has been years since I have seen it. It doesn't seem to get shown very often on any of the cable movie channels.

 

What's is it with Cliff Robertson's hair, seems to have a life of its own.

 

I LOVE it, and man that score......it's intense times infinity....I have 2 soundtrack lp's and a cd...the cd is probably a bootleg, don't think this have ever had an official cd release


I remember reading a quote from Genevieve Bujold, she had seen the movie before the score was in, and she said she was deeply disappointed....then she saw the movie with Bernhard Herrmann's finished score, and everything made sense. I think she said that Herrmann gave the movie it's heart

 

You know these are both OOP, and won't be released again for 3 to 5 years, per licensing agreements.

 

Maybe Twilight Time will reissue these like they are planning with some of the other titles that went out of print.

 

Obsession is available on BD in a region free for those interested. Looks very nice, great extras.

 

Genevieve Bujold, who attended the scoring sessions, purportedly said “Mr. Herrmann, he [Cliff Robertson] wouldn’t make love to me – but you made love to me with your music.” This is said to have moved the otherwise gruff Bernard Herrmann to tears. From A Heart at Fire’s Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann by Steven C. Smith.

It’s certainly a powerful score that’s worthy of a carefully prepared CD reissue. To my mind, the score demonstrates that Herrmann was at the top of his game at the very end of his life. After falling out of favour with Hitchcock and new pop-music infused trends in Hollywood, it was to be a brief period where the composer found work from a new generation of filmmakers that utilised his bold and emotive music to help tell their stories.

 

Not to be confused with the most recent DePalma.....what was it called....
`Possession'?! Dreadful movie.....

 

It's my favorite DePalma film. Most of his films, I liked initially, until Scarface, which turned me off to him. I find it hard to watch any of them other than Obsession & Carrie, mainly very bad acting. Obsession is the only one that I go back to, I haven't seen The Fury in a long, long time, so that may be a keeper.
My girlfriend at the time, my wife now, bore a striking resemblance to Genevieve Bujold which stoked my affection for the film, it has that dreamlike quality.

 

I would kill for a soundtrack releases from one of the current labels.

 

Dressed To Kill starts of well.
Yet to see 1980 Home Movies.
Think Body Double could be his masterpiece. His last commercial success was nearly 20 years ago with Mission Impossible.