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De Palma’s Way -
10 March 2008
-Brian De Palma is in hot water. Again. For a director who often seems more interested in form than content and who has devoted the bulk of his career to making mainstream entertainment for the Hollywood studios, it's surprising how regularly he upsets people. Even his
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Brian De Palma to make Iraq documentary -
8 January 2007
Brian De Palma is to use news footage, video blogs and court coverage to construct a documentary entitled Redacted.-The film will tell the story of five US soldiers stationed in Iraq who were accused of various crimes against an Iraqi family, Production Weekly reports.-
Brian De Palma - what members say
Brian De Palma - filmography
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Redacted
on DVD (2007)
Starring: Rob Devaney, Izzy Diaz, Mike Figueroa
Director: Brian De Palma
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Director Brian De Palma, whose CASUALTIES OF WAR addressed a horrific tragedy that occurred during the Vietnam war, turns his attention to Iraq with an unfortunately similar tale. Inspired by true events, REDACTED follows a group of soldiers who are stationed at a checkpoint in Iraq. Angel Salazar (..read more »
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51%
from 1,332 members
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The Black Dahlia
on DVD (2006)
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Josh Hartnett
Director: Brian De Palma
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Based on the novel by James Ellroy, Brian De Palma's THE BLACK DAHLIA stars Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart as a pair of LAPD detectives assigned to the most notorious murder in Hollywood history. Director Brian De Palma (THE UNTOUCHABLES, SCARFACE) establishes the relationship between Buddy ..read more »
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49%
from 15,511 members
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Femme Fatale
on DVD (2002)
Starring: Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote
Director: Brian De Palma
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Con artist Laure Ash pulls off a diamond robbery during the Cannes film festival. After double-crossing her associates she flees to Paris where she assumes another identity. Seven years on she resurfaces as the wife of the American ambassador to France where she is photographed by a Spanish ..read more »
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58%
from 225 members
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Mission To Mars
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen
Director: Brian De Palma
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In 2020, a group of astronauts headed by Luke Graham (Don Cheadle) set out to be the first humans on Mars. After they've landed, they investigate a strange noise near an unusual rock formation, and an unpredicted storm conjures up a living tunnel of sand that wipes out everyone except Graham. His ..read more »
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60%
from 1,268 members
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Snake Eyes
on DVD (1998)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard
Director: Brian De Palma
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From its incredible opening tracking shot to its suspenseful finale, this Brian De Palma thriller maintains a giddy, fever pitch of cinematic style and excitement. Nicolas Cage stars as Atlantic City detective Ritchie Santoro (his explosive energy and flashy clothes mirror the tone of the film), ..read more »
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60%
from 3,353 members
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Mission: Impossible
on DVD (1996)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jean Reno, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Brian De Palma
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Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, leader of a crack squad of intelligence operatives, in this labyrinthine action-thriller based on the hit 1960s-'70s television series. When a dangerous mission in Prague goes inexplicably wrong, Hunt finds himself out in the cold. A mole has infiltrated the CIA, and ..read more »
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68%
from 10,700 members
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Carlito's Way - HD DVD Version
(1993)
Starring: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller
Director: Brian De Palma
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Notorious Puerto Rican heroin dealer Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) is released from jail on a technicality thanks to the manipulations of his sleazy lawyer buddy (Sean Penn). All he wants is to keep his nose clean and earn enough money to start a business in the Bahamas--and maybe rekindle romance ..read more »
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79%
from 240 members
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Carlito's Way
on DVD (1993)
Starring: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller
Director: Brian De Palma
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Notorious Puerto Rican heroin dealer Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) is released from jail on a technicality thanks to the manipulations of his sleazy lawyer buddy (Sean Penn). All he wants is to keep his nose clean and earn enough money to start a business in the Bahamas--and maybe rekindle romance ..read more »
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76%
from 5,711 members
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Raising Cain
on DVD (1992)
Starring: John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer
Director: Brian De Palma
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John Lithgow goes bananas in a crazed multiple role as a child psychologist haunted by his deranged twin in this film from Brian De Palma (who explored similar territory in his earlier feature SISTERS). Inspired by Hitchcock as well as Michael Powell's classic PEEPING TOM, this study in abnormality ..read more »
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55%
from 116 members
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The Bonfire Of The Vanities
on DVD (1990)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, Bruce Willis
Director: Brian De Palma
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Brian De Palma (SCARFACE) directed this lavish adaptation of Tom Wolfe's best-selling satirical novel, featuring Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, and Bruce Willis. Hanks stars as Sherman McCoy, a distinctly 1980s brand of wealthy Wall Street wizard who takes a mighty fall from his glitzy lifestyle ..read more »
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54%
from 271 members
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Casualties Of War
on DVD (1989)
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Dan Harvey
Director: Brian De Palma
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After being denied the chance to go to a nearby village to visit a prostitute before starting a reconnaissance mission, a tough, embittered American sergeant (Sean Penn) involves the four men of his patrol in the kidnapping of a young Vietnamese woman. The impending gang rape and murder of the ..read more »
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68%
from 835 members
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The Untouchables
on DVD (1987)
Starring: Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Kevin Costner
Director: Brian De Palma
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Kevin Costner is idealistic federal agent Eliot Ness, whose assignment to clean up Prohibition-era Chicago leads to violence and manly questions about upholding the law. Initially powerless to stop the flow of booze into the city (the police force is corrupt and everyone in town seems to be on the ..read more »
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75%
from 7,490 members
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Wise Guys
(1986)
Starring: Danny DeVito, Joe Piscopo, Harvey Keitel
Director: Brian De Palma
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Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
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50%
from 26 members
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Body Double
on DVD (1984)
Starring: Craig Wasson, Deborah Shelton, Melanie Griffith
Director: Brian De Palma
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An unemployed young actor watches a beautiful woman performing a striptease in front of her bedroom window every night. Then suddenly one night he witnesses her murder. His avenging instincts eventually lead him into the world of blue movies. 'Frankie Goes To Hollywood' provide musical heat.
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57%
from 141 members
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Scarface
(2 discs)
on DVD (1983)
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Loggia, Michelle Pfeiffer
Director: Brian De Palma
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A tense and violent update of the 1932 Howard Hughes gangster classic with the setting changed from Chicago to Miami. Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and ..read more »
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78%
from 9,341 members
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Blow Out
on DVD (1980)
Starring: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow
Director: Brian De Palma
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While outdoors recording sound effects for a movie, audio technician Jack Terri hears a tire blowout and a car crash. Before the car sinks into the river, he manages to save the female passenger from drowning. Because the other passenger was a presidential candidate, Jack suspects that the "..read more »
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65%
from 382 members
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Home Movies
(1979)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Keith Gordon, Nancy Allen
Director: Brian De Palma
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Keith Gordon is a creative young man who films the oddball doings of his family and peers. "The Maestro" appears frequently to give him pointers on his techniques. It's almost a film about a young man making the film.
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35%
from 9 members
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Dressed To Kill
on DVD (1979)
Starring: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen
Director: Brian De Palma
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In this Brian De Palma film that combines Hitchcock's slick premises with modern-day gore, a lonely wife (Angie Dickinson) follows the advice of her shrink (Michael Caine) and seeks comfort in a stranger. After a seductive, dangerous encounter, the wife meets a homicidal maniac. The prostitute (..read more »
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63%
from 172 members
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The Fury
on DVD (1978)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress
Director: Brian De Palma
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In THE FURY, former government agent Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas) searches for his son (Andrew Stevens), kidnapped by a secret agency hoping to exploit the young man's telekinetic powers for their own ends. Meanwhile a young woman, Gillian (Amy Irving), begins to display her own psychic abilities ..read more »
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59%
from 134 members
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Obsession
on DVD (1976)
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Genevieve Bujold, John Lithgow
Director: Brian De Palma
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In one of director Brian DePalma's many cinematic tributes to Alfred Hitchcock (this one borrows from VERTIGO and employs Hitchcock's frequent collaborator, composer Bernard Herrmann), Cliff Robertson portrays an American businessman whose wife and child are killed in a botched kidnapping rescue ..read more »
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56%
from 238 members
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Carrie
on DVD (1976)
Starring: Sissy Spacek, John Travolta, Piper Laurie
Director: Brian De Palma
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Brian De Palma's commercial breakout, based on a novel by Stephen King, helped launch a whole slew of teen-based horror films, and Carrie the blood-spattered prom queen has taken her throne in the pantheon of modern American myth. High school girls played by Amy Irving (in her film debut), P.J. ..read more »
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from 3,594 members
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Phantom Of The Paradise
on DVD (1974)
Starring: Paul Williams, Jessica Harper, William Finley
Director: Brian De Palma
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Brian De Palma's great, overlooked 1970s glitter-rock comedy-musical spectacle is a memorable combination of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and FAUST. Winslow Leach (William Finley) is a talented young rock composer/janitor whose music is stolen and whose life is destroyed by a ruthless record tycoon ..read more »
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61%
from 322 members
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Hi Mom!
on DVD (1970)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Charles Durning, Allen Garfield
Director: Brian De Palma
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John Rubin, a Vietnam Vet, returns to New York where he rents a rundown flat in the Greenwich Village. There he begins to film the people in their apartments across the street from him.
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45%
from 189 members
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Trashy Pleasure 19 November 2004
...shy film really, with a slight hint of redemption thrown in. This is one of the Brian De Palma films that kind of doesn't have the epic sweep of the Untouchables, Carlito's W...
Simply the best 19 June 2004
