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Domino is
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us to reexamine our
relationship to images
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not only ethically
but metaphysically"
-Collin Brinkman

De Palma on Domino
"It was not recut.
I was not involved
in the ADR, the
musical recording
sessions, the final
mix or the color
timing of the
final print."

Listen to
Donaggio's full score
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De Palma/Lehman
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in Snakes

De Palma/Lehman
next novel is Terry

De Palma developing
Catch And Kill,
"a horror movie
based on real things
that have happened
in the news"

Supercut video
of De Palma's films
edited by Carl Rodrigue

Washington Post
review of Keesey book

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Karoline Herfurth
Leila Rozario

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AV Club Review
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Thursday, June 9, 2016
STEPHEN HOLDEN ON 'OBSESSION'
"TAKES EXTREMELY EMOTIONAL HAIRPIN TURNS THAT HITCHCOCK WOULD NEVER HAVE DREAMED OF"
Last week, as the Brian De Palma retrospective was beginning at The Metrograph, The New York Times' Stephen Holden took a moment to appreciate De Palma's "underappreciated" Obsession, which he calls a high point of the De Palma series. "As history begins to repeat itself," states Holden, "the film, based on an original script by Paul Schrader, takes extremely emotional hairpin turns that Hitchcock would never have dreamed of. A surging Wagnerian score by Bernard Herrmann, the composer for Vertigo, is the luscious icing on the cake."

Posted by Geoff at 10:49 PM CDT
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VIDEO: 'BODY DOUBLE' SCENE ANALYSIS
FROM BRAD DEANE, TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX SENIOR MANAGER OF FILM PROGRAMMES

Posted by Geoff at 6:32 PM CDT
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016
TWEETS FROM NEW YORK TONIGHT




Posted by Geoff at 10:59 PM CDT
Updated: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 11:04 PM CDT
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EDGAR WRIGHT & GUILLERMO DEL TORO
TWEET THEIR LISTS OF FAVORITE DE PALMA FILMS

Posted by Geoff at 10:16 PM CDT
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RICHARD BRODY ON 'SISTERS' - NEW YORKER
This is a couple of weeks late, but Richard Brody previewed this month's Brian De Palma retrospective at the Metrograph by writing about Sisters for The New Yorker. "De Palma weaves his own obsession with movies into the dramatic fabric of Sisters," states Brody, "by means of a scene involving a documentary about the twins that Grace views in the offices of Life magazine; this film-within-a-film becomes embedded in her unconscious mind and threatens to warp her consciousness as well. Though De Palma’s own images can’t rival Hitchcock’s in shot-by-shot psychological power, the intricate multiple-perspective split-screen sequences of Sisters offer a dense and elaborate counterpoint that conjures a sense of psychological dislocation and information overload belonging to De Palma’s own generation and times. De Palma’s cinephilic devotion, to the works of Hitchcock and others (such as Stanley Kubrick and Michelangelo Antonioni), is conflicted and cautionary—he sees movies as a source of hidden truths that risk becoming traps and delusions."

Brody wrote another piece on De Palma for The New Yorker last week that I'll link to in a round-up later today.

Posted by Geoff at 1:09 AM CDT
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Tuesday, June 7, 2016
DE PALMA WEEK AT PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL
JUNE 13 - 16, 'CARRIE', 'SCARFACE', 'DRESSED TO KILL', 'DE PALMA'


Add Phoenix to the list of cities hosting De Palma retrospectives of some sort in June (New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Chicago, Boston, Seattle). The Phoenix Film Festival will present De Palma week next week, running June 13-16. For the third De Palma film in the series, the festival let the public vote between Dressed To Kill and Carlito's Way. The former won the vote, and will screen on Wednesday, June 15. The other two De Palma films are Carrie (June 13) and Scarface (June 14). Then, on Thursday June 16, the fest will screen the documentary De Palma, but the only way to get tickets is to win them (tickets for each of the other films are available to purchase). Go to Phoenix Film Festival for more details. Also, each film (even the free one) will be followed by a discussion.

Posted by Geoff at 9:59 PM CDT
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DE PALMA IN PERSON WED AT METROGRAPH
Q&A FOLLOWING 'HI, MOM!', WILL INTRODUCE 'DRESSED TO KILL'
After Brian De Palma gets off stage Wednesday night at the Film Society Lincoln Center (where he'll be appearing with Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow at 7pm), he'll head over to The Metrograph to attend a Q&A following the 7:15 screening of Hi, Mom!. After that, he'll stick around to introduce the 9:45 screening of Dressed To Kill. Hump day fever in the Big Apple.

Posted by Geoff at 12:34 AM CDT
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DE PALMA, BAUMBACH, PALTROW - FREE TALK IN NY
7PM WEDNESDAY AT FILM SOCIETY LINCOLN CENTER

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Monday, June 6, 2016
FILM COMMENT PODCAST ON DE PALMA
BAUMBACH & PALTROW INTERVIEWED, FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION OF DE PALMA'S FILMS
Film Comment posted a podcast this past Friday in which digital editor Violet Lucca interviews Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow about their new documentary, De Palma. That interview takes up the first 15 minutes of the podcast, after which Lucca sits down with Michael Koresky and Ashley Clark to discuss De Palma's work for about 50 minutes.

One of the highlights of the interview is when Baumbach and Paltrow talk about how the most moving part of their film about De Palma is the way he talks about taking up and continuing to develop the cinematic language that Alfred Hitchcock laid out before him. The other discussion afterward includes a nice description of De Palma's work as a deconstruction of film. Some of the highlights include an appraisal of Femme Fatale, Koresky talking about seeing Dressed To Kill when he was ten years old, De Palma as a political filmmaker (discussing Hi, Mom! and Sisters), and the energizing experience of watching De Palma.

Posted by Geoff at 11:45 PM CDT
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Sunday, June 5, 2016
2 MORE DE PALMA RETROSPECTIVES IN JUNE
IN BOSTON & SEATTLE; PREVIOUSLY NY, L.A., TORONTO, CHICAGO
Two more retrospectives, centered around the release of De Palma, have been announced for June. Independent Film Festival Boston will have a four-day series called "The World Is Yours: Brian De Palma On Film," June 13-16. The series will consist of a 70mm screening of The Untouchables (June 13), 35mm screenings of Scarface (June 14) and The Bonfire Of The Vanities (June 15), and will conclude with the documentary De Palma, projected from DCP.

In Seattle, De Palma will open June 24 at SIFF Cinema Uptown. In conjunction, SIFF will present a three day series, Obsessions: Classic De Palma, featuring seven films over three days (June 24-26). The films are Carrie, Blow Out, Phantom Of The Paradise, Obsession, Body Double, Carlito's Way, and Scarface.

Posted by Geoff at 9:11 PM CDT
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