Presented as part of DE PALMA: HITCH WITH A TWIST -- a four-film Brian De Palma series to complementing our engagement of the new documentary potrait DE PALMA by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow.
BODY DOUBLE screens at 9pm Thu 7/28, with a second and final screening at 3pm Sun, July 31.
See the full De Palma series program and schedule.
BODY DOUBLE
"An exhilarating exercise in pure filmmaking, a thriller in the Hitchcock tradition in which there's no particular point except that the hero is flawed, weak, and in terrible danger--and we identify with him completely." -Roger Ebert
"Brian De Palma takes bits of REAR WINDOW and VERTIGO and sleazes them up ‘80s style in a movie that has dark humor, thrills and sexiness that all add up to magnificent pleasure." -Alamo Drafthouse
In BODY DOUBLE, director Brian De Palma pays homage to the Alfred Hitchcock movies "Vertigo" and "Rear Window," adding a few grotesque touches all his own.
After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous blonde (Deborah Shelton) dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers -- with porn actress Holly Body (Melanie Griffith) as his guide.