A WEEKEND FULL OF RESPONSES - WHAT ARE YOURS?
On Friday, Travis Woods, who is currently writing a book about the cinema of Brian De Palma, asked on Twitter, "What are your 5 favorite Brian De Palma films?" As of Sunday night, the tweet appears to have over 400 responses. I've long had a pretty solid "top 3" De Palma films that sometimes interchanged with each other, but the top three were always the top 3. Beyond that, it was however I felt at the time - I mean, I love De Palma's films, plain and simple, so it can get very difficult to rank them at a certain point. Over the past couple of years, though, I've added two more to make my current top 5:
Carrie
Blow Out
Phantom Of The Paradise
Dressed To Kill
Femme Fatale
The Principal Archivist at The Swan Archives lists, in this order, Phantom Of The Paradise, Casualties Of War, Carrie, Carlito's Way, and Femme Fatale. More and more, especially after a recent rewatch, I keep thinking I should elevate Casualties into my top 5. Way back around the year 2000 or 2001, the consensus among De Palma fans had the top two films as Blow Out and Carlito's Way.
What are your top five De Palma films?