Brian De Palma

Quote:Sisters is the first Hitchcock homage that Brian De Palma directed, and it’s a doozy. There are scenes in any horror film that put the viewer on edge. Right before the slasher slashes his victim or before the monster eats his prey, a good director will rile us up. Sisters takes Hitchcock’s famous comment that he plays his audience like a fiddle to heart, and De Palma makes the first forty-five minutes of the film feel like anyone on screen is about to get hacked up, if only the bogeyman...Read Full Story

Name:Mission To Mars Directed by Brian De Palma Produced by Tom Jacobson Written by Story: Lowell Cannon Jim Thomas John Thomas Screenplay: Jim Thomas John Thomas Graham Yost Starring Gary Sinise Tim Robbins Connie Nielsen Don Cheadle Music by Ennio Morricone Cinematography Stephen H. Burum Editing by Paul Hirsch Distributed by Touchstone Pictures Spyglass Entertainment (some markets) Release date(s) March 10, 2000 Running time 114 min. Country  United States Language English Budget $100...Read Full Story

Well this is a turn up for the books. Brian De Palma looks to have bagsied the director’s chair for low-fi ghost shocker, Paranormal Activity 2 – or he’s at least in contention. Things have been quiet for the Hollywood master stylist since he pissed off everybody with the grotesque and downright anti-American, Redacted, a couple of years back. Could the Paranormal Activity sequel be his salvation in the eyes of the film world? I thought Redacted was as brave and loony tunes as anything De...Read Full Story

Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia comes out on Blu-Ray this week, but I doubt that it's going the be the second chance the film deserves. Released in 2006, the film received generally unfavorable notices and audience response, but it has basically one major problem: it's not L.A. Confidential. That movie was written by Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland, based on the James Ellroy novel, and it remains a superb model of adaptation. It's an incredibly smart, literate script and a very good film...Read Full Story

“De Palma’s fever dream of fear and desire may never get the deluxe Blu-ray transfer it so richly deserves, but Dressed to Kill still goes straight for the jugular after all these years.” Read my review of the new Blu-ray release of Brian De Palma’s masterwork, Dressed to Kill, on Slant Magazine.Read Full Story