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Domino is
a "disarmingly
straight-forward"
work that "pushes
us to reexamine our
relationship to images
and their consumption,
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
for Domino online

De Palma/Lehman
rapport at work
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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Exclusive Passion
Interviews:

Brian De Palma
Karoline Herfurth
Leila Rozario

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AV Club Review
of Dumas book

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Wednesday, October 1, 2025
'ONE OF THE SADDEST HORROR FILMS' - LWL PODCAST ON 'CARRIE'
THE THREE HOSTS AGREE, A DE PALMA MASTERPIECE - BUT ONE SEEMS TO MISTAKENLY THINK THAT TOMMY KNOWS ABOUT THE PRANK
https://www.angelfire.com/de/palma/lwlpodcastcarrie.jpg

Posted by Geoff at 10:16 PM CDT
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Monday, September 29, 2025
SAM IRVIN'S BOOK - 'CONFESSIONS OF A BRIAN DE PALMA PROTÉGÉ!'
NOW AVAILABLE VIA AMAZON - ALSO A COVER STORY IN MAGAZINE THE DARK SIDE #271
https://www.angelfire.com/de/palma/samirvinconfessions3.jpg

Sam Irvin's book, Confessions of a Brian De Palma Protégé!, is now available via Amazon, in both paperback and hardback. Here's the description at Amazon:
“Revelatory, hilarious, jaw-dropping… even for De Palma junkies like myself who think they know it all!” - Don Mancini, Creator of Chucky

This massive coffin-table book, loaded with nearly a thousand photos, is the most comprehensive chronicle ever published on the making of Brian De Palma’s DRESSED TO KILL, THE FURY, and HOME MOVIES!

It is my personal memoir of everything I learned while assisting my mentor, Brian De Palma, which prepared me for my own successful career as a director on over 50 movies, including ELVIRA’S HAUNTED HILLS and the De Palma-esque thriller ACTING ON IMPULSE starring Nancy Allen (CARRIE, HOME MOVIES, DRESSED TO KILL, BLOW OUT).

It is also a coming out story of my transition from a 19-year-old closeted teenager raised in the conservative South, to marrying a woman, and then finally becoming an openly-gay adult in New York City.

Not to name-drop or anything, BUT…. you will read all about my encounters with (in alphabetical order) Karen Allen, Nancy Allen, Richard Benjamin, Coral Browne, Michael Caine, John Cassavetes, Jill Clayburgh, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Brian De Palma, Laura Dern, Angie Dickinson, Matt Dillon, Divine, Kirk Douglas, William Finley, Carrie Fisher, Dennis Franz, Vincent Gardenia, Mel Gibson, Keith Gordon, Gerrit Graham, Daryl Hannah, Paul Hirsch, Amy Irving, Michael Jackson, Margot Kidder, Wayne Knight, Burt Lancaster, Louise Lasser, Fiona Lewis, John Lithgow, Edith Massey, Freddie Mercury, Paul Newman, Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Diana Ross, Jennifer Salt, Martin Scorsese, Wallace Shawn, Carrie Snodgress, Wendie Jo Sperber, Steven Spielberg, Andrew Stevens, John Travolta, Liv Ullmann, Vanity, Treat Williams, Joanne Woodward, and many more!

Sexy, dishy, and ultimately quite moving, the triumphant arc of my education, both personal and professional, is a continuation of my larger-than-life story that began with my coming-of-age memoir I WAS A TEENAGE MONSTER HUNTER! HOW I MET VINCENT PRICE, CHRISTOPHER LEE, PETER CUSHING & MORE! — which won the 2022 Rondo Award for Writer of the Year!

Now I pull the rope to spill a bucket of bloody good tales out of school that will rival a certain prom night!


COVER STORY IN NEW ISSUE OF THE DARK SIDE, AVAILABLE AT BARNES & NOBLE


Posted by Geoff at 5:26 PM CDT
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Sunday, September 28, 2025
'THE JAWS OF FURY' - PARODY OF 'JAWS' & 'THE FURY'
LARRY KARASZEWSKI PLAYED RICHARD DREYFUS HUNTING A TELEKINETIC SHARK
https://www.angelfire.com/de/palma/jawsoffury.jpg

Posted by Geoff at 5:20 PM CDT
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Saturday, September 27, 2025
'SO MUCH VIOLENCE' - THE UNTOUCHABLES & MAGNOLIA
EXCERPTS FROM THE SCREENPLAYS BY DAVID MAMET & PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON
https://www.angelfire.com/de/palma/untouchablesviolence5a.jpg


Posted by Geoff at 11:36 PM CDT
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Friday, September 26, 2025
AT THE CINEMA - 'ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER'
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON, INSPIRED BY THOMAS PYNCHON NOVEL VINELAND
https://www.angelfire.com/de/palma/onebattle10a55.jpg

Posted by Geoff at 6:14 PM CDT
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Monday, September 22, 2025
VIDEO - ALTERNATE TAKES FROM 'PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE'
FROM THE ARROW BLU-RAY EDITION - "FOOTAGE COURTESY OF ARI KAHAN AT THE SWAN ARCHIVES"

Posted by Geoff at 4:57 PM CDT
Updated: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 8:58 PM CDT
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Saturday, September 20, 2025
VIDEO - CINEMA SESSIONS PODCAST ROLLS 'SNAKE EYES'
"THIS FILM DOES CONTAIN BOTH NIC CAGES"


(Thanks to Rado!)

Posted by Geoff at 11:12 PM CDT
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Thursday, September 11, 2025
THURSDAY? HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BRIAN DE PALMA!
DE PALMA IS 85 YEARS OLD TODAY - NEW TRIBUTE VIDEO BY CARL RODRIGUE
https://www.angelfire.com/de/palma/thursdaypaul55a.jpg

 


Posted by Geoff at 7:17 AM CDT
Updated: Thursday, September 11, 2025 10:04 PM CDT
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Tuesday, September 9, 2025
'BLOW OUT' & 'DRESSED TO KILL' ART BY TONY STELLA
FOR UPCOMING LIMITED UHD/BLU-RAY RELEASES BY FRENCH COMPANY LE CHAT QUI FUME
https://www.angelfire.com/de/palma/blowoutstella.jpg


Posted by Geoff at 5:54 PM CDT
Updated: Tuesday, September 9, 2025 6:03 PM CDT
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Friday, September 5, 2025
ORWELL'S 'ANIMAL FARM' IN 'THE FURY'
HIGHLIGHTED YESTERDAY BY "REAL BOOKS IN FILMS"
https://www.angelfire.com/de/palma/thefuryanimalfarm1.jpg

Posted by Geoff at 9:33 PM CDT
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