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Domino is
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us to reexamine our
relationship to images
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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
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AV Club Review
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Sunday, January 15, 2017
CRAMPTON: 'ALWAYS SHINE' FEELS VERY DE PALMA


Previously:
Always Shine director discusses her influences
Tweet: Always Shine "feels like De Palma's 3 Women"
Star Mackenzie Davis says the gaze of Always Shine feels very different from that of De Palma's cinema

Posted by Geoff at 11:34 PM CST
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Friday, January 13, 2017
'BLOW OUT' / 'CONVERSATION' DOUBLE FEATURE
TONIGHT IN DURHAM, NC - ALSO, THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN COPPOLA & DE PALMA
The Carolina Theatre in downtown Durham, North Carolina, has a fantastic Friday-the-13th double feature tonight as part of its RetroClassics Film Series: Brian De Palma's Blow Out, at 7pm, followed by Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation.

It just so happens that the 1974 conversation between Coppola and De Palma has been making the rounds on the internet the past three or four weeks, thanks to a post at Cinephilia & Beyond that includes the full article from Filmmakers Newsletter #33, and, at the botom of the page, an hour-long documentary about the early years of American Zoetrope.

Posted by Geoff at 1:16 AM CST
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Thursday, January 12, 2017
PIPER LAURIE w/'CARRIE' & 'HUSTLER' SATURDAY
IN ORINDA, CA; AND ARMOND WHITE LINKS 'BROKEN BLOSSOMS' WITH 'CARRIE'
Piper Laurie will be on hand at the Orinda Theatre in Orinda, California this Saturday, January 14th, for a double feature of two of her greatest films, Brian De Palma's Carrie (5pm), and Robert Rossen's The Hustler (8pm). According to Diablo Magazine's Pete Crooks, Laurie will appear for a Q&A with the audience following each film.

Meanwhile, the other day, Armond White mused on D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms for Out, and mentioned De Palma's Carrie:
Film buffs esteem Broken Blossoms for its artiness — dreamlike, fuzzy images project us into the exoticism of other states of being. It heightens our response to effeminacy while critiquing Battling Burrows’s masculine threat. Crisp’s macho sneer is on a behavioral continuum with Gish’s fragility (her fright hiding in a closet was repeated in Brian DePalma’s modern sexual gothic Carrie) and Barthelmess’s ethereal, idealized compassion. The man and girl’s idyll is crushed (“The spirit of beauty breaks her blossoms all about his chamber”), and no contemporary gay-bashing would be more heartrending.

Posted by Geoff at 8:01 PM CST
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Monday, January 9, 2017
TWEETS - ELDER STATESMEN OF CLASSICISM

Posted by Geoff at 12:11 AM CST
Updated: Monday, January 9, 2017 8:18 AM CST
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Saturday, January 7, 2017
PIC - DE PALMA w/SCORSESE & JAY COCKS
AT LUNCHEON TUESDAY TO CELEBRATE PARAMOUNT'S NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW WINNERS
The photo at left, taken by Marion Curtis, shows Brian De Palma with Martin Scorsese and Jay Cocks at a luncheon hosted by Paramount Pictures this past Tuesday to celebrate the studio's National Board of Review award winners (Scorsese and Cocks won best adapted screenplay for Silence). The three have been friends, of course, for many many years. Cocks did the documentary-within-the-film for De Palma's Sisters, and the two are also credited together with rewriting George Lucas' opening crawl for Star Wars (back when it was just called Star Wars). In 1998, Cocks co-wrote De Palma's unrealized project Nazi Gold.

As for the luncheon, The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Feinberg included a brief description in an article about that night's awards ceremony:
Other big winners included Arrival's Amy Adams for best actress, introduced as a "badass" by Chris Messina; and Silence's Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese for best adapted screenplay, introduced by the film's supporting actors Adam Driver and Liam Neeson. (Adams, Cocks and Scorsese also were feted earlier in the day with a Paramount-hosted, Academy member-packed luncheon high above Manhattan in Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room; many attendees of that gathering subsequently hustled over to the 21 Club, where Lonergan and Affleck were at the center of a similar event, hosted by Manchester distributors Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions; and later to The Monkey Bar, where The Weinstein Co., which was shut out of the NBR Awards, toasted Lion lead actor Sunny Pawar, supporting actor Dev Patel and supporting actress Nicole Kidman.)

Posted by Geoff at 6:33 PM CST
Updated: Saturday, January 7, 2017 6:38 PM CST
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Friday, January 6, 2017
CARLOTTA ULTRA 'PHANTOM' BOX - APRIL 12
NEW RESTORATION, BLU-RAY/DVD, BOOK, COVER ART AND OTHER SPECS STILL TO BE REVEALED
Carlotta Films announced on its Facebook page today that it will release an Ultra Collector's Box of Brian De Palma's Phantom Of The Paradise on April 12. The set will include a brand new 2K restoration of the film. If it is mostly like the Ultra Collector's Box of De Palma's Body Double that they released in 2015, we can expect that the discs will be region free. The cover art depicted here is not final-- for Body Double, Carlotta had commissioned a fantastic illustration by Jay Shaw. Other features of the set have not yet been specified, but when pressed in the comments of the Facebook post, Carlotta responded, "the book will bring together many texts and analyses unreleased on the film archives, exclusive promotions, interviews of the era... and much more!"

Posted by Geoff at 10:25 PM CST
Updated: Saturday, January 7, 2017 11:04 AM CST
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017
WATCH & TWEET 'THE FURY' TONIGHT

Posted by Geoff at 8:22 PM CST
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Monday, January 2, 2017
NEW SHORT FROM ROMAIN LEHNHOFF
NEW YEAR'S THEMED 'STARTING FROM SCRATCH', W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Posted by Geoff at 2:03 PM CST
Updated: Monday, January 2, 2017 2:05 PM CST
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Friday, December 30, 2016
'SCARFACE' POSTER ART

Posted by Geoff at 5:47 PM CST
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Thursday, December 29, 2016
LEGUIZAMO ON WORKING WITH DE PALMA
SPECIFICALLY 'CARLITO'S WAY' - SAYS CONTRACT WITH FOX KEPT HIM FROM BEING IN 'MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE'
Birth.Movies.Death.'s Jacob Knight posted an interview with John Leguizamo two weeks ago, and asked him about his work with Brian De Palma. Here is the excerpt:
BMD: Before I let you go, I’d be remiss if I didn’t ask you about working with Brian De Palma. He’s my favorite filmmaker of all time and you were in one of his absolute masterpieces, Carlito’s Way.

JL: Aw man, I was supposed to be in Mission: Impossible, too, but had a Fox contract that they wouldn’t let me out of. I was so looking forward to being in that movie. It would’ve been the third time I got to do something with Brian. I was so devastated. I loved working with him. I owe my career to him. He creates this environment where anything is possible.

In Carlito’s Way, I found myself as an actor. With my entrance as Benny Blanco, he let me do between twenty and thirty takes. And we’re talking about doing this on film, not digital. This was the era when you usually got three takes and had to beg for more. Not with Brian. Brian would let you play, because he was digging what I was doing; all my flamboyance and improv.

BMD: Do you have any specific recollections about how he directed you on that set?

JL: He loves to tell one actor one thing and another actor another thing and then just watch them go at it. It’s all about conflict with Brian. He just wants to get everyone riled up. He gets off on tension and watching actors cross the line. I’m so glad you brought him up because he’s really one of the geniuses of our time.

BMD: Earlier this year, I got to watch Carlito’s Way on 35mm and took my girlfriend, who had never seen it, and she was completely blown away.

JL: I think it’s due to finally get recognized for what it is. I was so proud of my work in that.

BMD: As you should be. You got to play against peak Pacino and killed it.


Posted by Geoff at 11:57 PM CST
Updated: Thursday, December 29, 2016 11:58 PM CST
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