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Brian De Palma - news / articles


  • 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


  • 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


  • Snake Eyes
  • Snake Eyes review by Simon Glen from Falkirk Scotland
    Rated - 4 stars 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...  
  • Carlito's Way
  • Carlito's Way review by Jorja from Herts
    Rated - 5 stars Simply the best 19 June 2004
    ...Brian De Palma's awesome gangster flick is, in my opinion, one of the greatest films ever made. Slick, stylish and full of raw emotion. Al Pacino excels as a drug deale...  
  • Carrie
  • Carrie review by gav worlledge from Bedford, England
    Rated - 5 stars A true horror classic! 7 March 2005
    ...ovie from one of his novels. Though it doesn't really follow the original story Brian De Palma's adaption is one of those films you can watch over and over without it ever ge...  

Brian De Palma - filmography


  • Redacted on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Rob Devaney,  Izzy Diaz,  Mike Figueroa
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 51% from 1,332 members
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  • Femme Fatale on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Rebecca Romijn-Stamos,  Antonio Banderas,  Peter Coyote
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 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
    Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 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
    Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 60% from 3,353 members
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  • Carlito's Way on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Sean Penn,  Penelope Ann Miller
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: 18
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 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
    Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 55% from 116 members
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  • The Untouchables on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Charles Martin Smith,  Andy Garcia,  Kevin Costner
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 75% from 7,490 members
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  • Wise Guys (1986)
    Starring: Danny DeVito,  Joe Piscopo,  Harvey Keitel
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: TBC
    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.
    Rate this: 2.5 50% from 26 members
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  • Body Double on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Craig Wasson,  Deborah Shelton,  Melanie Griffith
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: 18
    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.
    Rate this: 2.5 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
    Certificate: 18
    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 »
    Rate this: 4.0 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
    Certificate: 18
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 65% from 382 members
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  • Home Movies (1979)
    Starring: Kirk Douglas,  Keith Gordon,  Nancy Allen
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: TBC
    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.
    Rate this: 2.0 35% from 9 members
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  • Carrie on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Sissy Spacek,  John Travolta,  Piper Laurie
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: 18
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 69% from 3,594 members
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