Kim Novak, on hearing the homage to the Vertigo score in The Artist, felt “raped”
I want to report a rape. My body of work has been violated by The Artist.”
This is a statement by Vertigo star Kim Novak.
Novak says she was appalled when she sat down to watch the Oscar front-runner and found that an important sequence in the movie shamelessly lifts Bernard Hermann’s score from Vertigo.
Novak’s manager told Deadline that the score sampling sent Novak into “an absolute state of shock and devastation”.
Even though they did give Bernard Herrmann a small credit at the end, I believe this kind of filmmaking trick to be cheating. Shame on them!”
Someone had better take all those Brian De Palma movies off Novak’s Netflix queue, and quickly, jokes Kyle Buchanan for New York Magazine.
Graham Spicer, aka ‘Gramilano’, is a writer, director and photographer based in Milan. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. His articles have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the Danza in Italia column for Dancing Times magazine. Graham was the historical advisor on Codice Carla, the 2023 documentary on Italian ballerina Carla Fracci.
Graham also works as a dance photographer, and his photos have appeared in many books, theatre programmes, and magazines, including Dancing Times, Dance Spirit and Ballet2000, as well as all the major Italian newspapers.
He is a member of the Dance Section of The Critics’ Circle.
