Absolutely. But don't take my word for it. Here's Edgar Wright talking about the trailer (with several mentions of that scene) for The Fury: https://youtu.be/HUoDMVstDmc

I read somehwere that "Raising Cain" was a deliberate parody of his worst excesses - but that may have been revisionist history. Believing it true I can enjoy Raising Cain.

I'd add that it's the bastard child of Vertigo and Rear Window, but the rest of your comment stands.

Neither The Fury nor Obsession is great but definitely worth watching. Obsession is the better of the two but The Fury does have one of the greatest exploding heads in cinema history.

"Obsession" is when DePalma came closest to outright Hitchcock plagiarism -it's a fairly straightforward rip of Vertigo but, in fairness, I think that's what DePalma and Schraeder set out to so. At least with Body Double, for example, he combined great ideas from Vertigo and Rear Window to make something unique (one…

Agreed on both accounts. RE: Raising Cain: I read somewhere that DePalma was so sick of critics blaming him for ripping off HItch that he decided to take the piss out of them by ripping off "DePalma ripping off Hitchcock".

And Blow Out is great but, honestly, the last act with Travolta driving through the streets of Philadelphia is ridiculous. This may be due to the fact that a truck with the original negatives was stolen from a hotel and they had to go back and reshoot the whole sequence. Second demerit: Nancy Allen's character. I…

Shout Factory released an outstanding Phantom of the Paradise Blu-Ray last year.

But the AV Club will proabably have four new Monkees articles by the end of the week so who knows?

Best Monkees track by a mile.

Fair point, but as it's among their best tracks (in my opinion) I think it at least deserved a mention in the article.

Where the fuck is Valleri? https://www.youtube.com/wat…

That's quite a claim to make but, I believe, you are correct.

And a great title sequence from Saul Bass. Honestly, that and Herrmann's score are the best parts of the film.

This a good cover of the main theme by French electronica band Zombie Zombie. It appears on their EP of nothing but John Carpenter soundtrack covers: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

"Hi I'm William DeVane…"

Loved Prince and we expect Gene to be a dink (which he was in this case, but not necessarily wrong). More importantly, as you so well articulated, why does anyone give a shit? It's not like we're friends with any of them FFS.

Shit, I forgot about that. Now I have to watch it again.

Beware of self-professed "experts"! At least I think that was the point of the film.

"F for Fake"