Sisters - Criterion Collection DVD - Brian DePalma Margot Kidder - Brand New!!!!

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A newswoman and a private eye probe a murder confused by separated Siamese twins. Directed by Brian De Palma.

Sisters is not Brian De Palma's first film, but in many ways it is the first Brian De Palma film, or at least the first to reveal (and revel in) his affinity with Hitchcock. A pre-Superman Margot Kidder struggles with a French-Canadian accent as an aspiring actress whose one-night stand leads to a homicidal morning-after. Jennifer Salt is a reporter with more moxie than tact or skill who sees the killing from her apartment window across the way. When the police fail to turn up any evidence of the crime, Salt investigates with a private eye (the hilariously relentless Charles Durning), uncovering the secret story of a pair of Siamese twins and a weaselly, stalker doctor. It's a mystery simmering in a stew of voyeurism, guilt, sex, and obsession. De Palma borrows from Rear Window, Psycho, and Vertigo (as well as Roman Polanski's Repulsion), and composer Bernard Herrmann quotes from his own Hitchcock scores (notably Psycho) for the unsettling music, but the result is more original than you might imagine. Laced with dark humor, inventive technique, and impressive technical precision (the split-screen sequences are breathtakingly effective), De Palma flexes his cinematic muscles with thrilling results, right down to the mordantly wry conclusion. De Palma graduated to big-budget thrillers, but this modest little production remains one of his sharpest, slyest, most engrossing films. Long available only in pallid video transfers, the Home Vision/Criterion letterboxed restoration is bright, clear, and beautiful. --Sean Axmaker

    Director Brain De Palma's 1973 VILLAGE VOICE essay, "Murder by Moog: Scoring the Chill," on working with composer Bernard Herrmann
    A 1973 interview with De Palma on the making of SISTERS
    Rare Study of Siamese Twins in the Soviet, the 1966 LIFE magazine article that inspired De Palma
    Excerpts from the original press book, including ads and posters
    Hundreds of production, publicity, and behind-the-scenes stills

    Actors: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley, Lisle Wilson
    Directors: Brian De Palma
    Format: Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Color, NTSC, Widescreen