MORE USEFUL TO COMPARE DE PALMA TO LYNCH THAN TO HITCHCOCK
From Green Cine's Vadim Rizov's review of Brian De Palma's Passion:
"Detractors have largely given up on accusing De Palma of just selling Hitchcock rip-offs: the more he repeats himself, the clearer it is what makes him distinct. A more useful comparison might be David Lynch. Both De Palma and Lynch adore Vertigo, and both make movies in which their characters also often seem to be moving in a trance state. De Palma literalized this in 1978's The Fury, where telekinetic tyros in training are hypnotized to release their powers, but he uses the same visual language—slow zooms in on inexplicably fixed faces, somnambulant people wandering streets and hallways with no evident purpose—consistently."
Posted by Geoff
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Updated: Friday, September 21, 2012 6:28 PM CDT
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Updated: Friday, September 21, 2012 6:28 PM CDT
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