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Sunday, May 26, 2013

'PHANTOM' TOPS ARROW LIST OF DE PALMA FILMS
TOP 10 CHOSEN IN POLL CONDUCTED AHEAD OF NEW 'BLOW OUT' BLU-RAY

Phantom Of The Paradise has topped a list of top 10 Brian De Palma films at Arrow Video's "Video Deck" blog. The eleven voters included Kim Newman, whose book Nightmare Movies analyzes De Palma's work in its "Auteurs" section. Here's the full list (visit the Arrow blog to read their blurbs for each film)--

1. Phantom Of The Paradise
2. [Tie] Blow Out
[Tie] Sisters
4. Carrie
5. [Tie] The Untouchables
[Tie] Body Double
7. [Tie] Scarface
[Tie] Dressed To Kill
9. [Tie] Carlito's Way
[Tie] Obsession

Arrow's Blow Out Blu-Ray is out tomorrow, and DVD Beaver's Gary Tooze has provided a very helpful comparison between it and the Criterion edition that came out two years ago. He says the picture is a little brighter on the Arrow edition, which definitely holds its own against Criterion's. However, as each one has its own bevy of wonderful extras, it seems more than worth it to own both.

Meanwhile, Tomas Lucien has posted an audiovisual remix of Carlito's meeting with Lalin from Carlito's Way that gets pretty crazy towards the end.

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Updated: Sunday, May 26, 2013 1:37 PM CDT
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Saturday, May 25, 2013

DE PALMA INCLUDED IN 'RENEGADES' FILM FEST
SERIES IN BRAZIL INCLUDES 'SNAKE EYES' & 'MISSION TO MARS'

Brazil's Clovis Salgado Foundation (FCS) is currently hosting a film festival called "Renegades" at the Cine Humberto Mauro. The fest, which began yesterday and continues through May 30th, features films that were poorly received in their time, but that "have achieved a new position in the reflective and critical overview of cinema, after receiving a range of reinterpretations," according to the official description. Included in the series are two Brian De Palma films: Snake Eyes and Mission To Mars. According to Diverta-Se, FCS cinema manager Rafael Ciccarini argues that the series provides "an opportunity to promote new readings of these films, an attempt to get out of the commonplace regarding such works, provoking the public." The other films included are Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls, Tim Burton's Mars Attacks, Abel Ferrara's Dangerous Game, Michael Cimino's Desperate Hours, M. Night Shyamalan's Lady In The Water, and Clint Eastwood's True Crime.

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Friday, May 24, 2013

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

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BILL PANKOW INTERVIEWED BY MOVIE GEEKS
EDITOR DISCUSSES METHODS OF WORKING WITH DE PALMA & OTHERS

Bill Pankow was interviewed for the latest episode of Movie Geeks United. Pankow talks about the process of editing when working on a film with De Palma, saying that De Palma lets the editors work on their own, then comes back when the assembly is done to sit and watch with them, review, discuss, and then let them work on their own again, etc. Pankow said he found this to be a very productive process. He said if scenes were storyboarded (as they usually were with De Palma), he liked to edit without looking at the storyboards, and then check afterward to see how close he got to them. After a while, he got very good at matching up with the storyboards without using them. This is a very interesting discussion conducted by Jamey DuVall, with Bobbie O'Steen, author of The Invisible Cut. Pankow and Jerry Greenberg, who is discussed in the interview, as well, will take part in a panel with O'Steen as part of an event called "Inside The Cutting Room," at the French Institute in New York City on June 8.

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Updated: Thursday, May 23, 2013 6:21 AM CDT
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

CANNES UPDATE - ONE WEEK IN
DE PALMA SAW 'THE BASTARDS' YESTERDAY, 'MUHAMMAD ALI'S GREATEST FIGHT' TODAY

Le Monde blogger Isabelle Regnier posted this photo of Brian De Palma after a Cannes screening of Claire Denis' The Bastards yesterday. And it looks like today, De Palma attended a screening of Stephen Frears' Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight, to judge by the tweets of Edouard Austin.

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Updated: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 7:32 PM CDT
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'PASSION' RELEASE DATES CONFIRMED
iTUNES & ON DEMAND AUGUST 1, IN THEATERS AUGUST 30

In response to multiple queries on its Facebook page asking when Passion will be released, eOne responded yesterday that De Palma's latest will be "available on iTunes and On Demand August 1st and in theatres August 30th." Then, today, they posted an "attention" to De Palma fans with the same information. So it looks like Passion will be available to watch on TV screens prior to its theatrical release, which makes it a good example of a trend that Deadline's Pete Hammond wrote about today, noting that an HBO movie (Steven Soderbergh's Behind The Candelabra) and a VOD movie (Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives) are both competing for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, happening now. Soderbergh's film premieres on HBO this Sunday, while Refn's film will be released on VOD and in theaters at the same time ("day and date") on July 19. It seems likely that Passion will be a limited theater release, similar to other films that have been released On Demand prior to theatrical. But it will be interesting to see how it plays out.

Meanwhile, there is a new Passion video, in English, with some extended scenes, at Entania, although it doesn't seem to be available to watch in America. (Thanks to Patrick!)

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Updated: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 6:14 PM CDT
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

ARROW TO RELEASE 'PHANTOM' BLU-RAY
WITH SOME SORT OF ASSIST FROM THE PRINCIPAL ARCHIVIST

The Swan Archives posted news today that Arrow Video will release a Blu-Ray edition of Brian De Palma's Phantom Of The Paradise, targeted for later this year, along with Blu-Ray editions of De Palma's Sisters and The Fury. The best part of the news? The Swan Archives' Principal Archivist is helping out with the Phantom Blu-Ray package. Looking forward to it. We'll also mention here that Twilight Time will release a Blu-Ray edition of De Palma's Body Double on August 13. The edition, which will likely include an isolated score (no specific special features have yet been announced), will be limited to 3000 copies.

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DE PALMA & GUEST AT CANNES PREMIERE MONDAY
FOR 'A CASTLE IN ITALY', PRODUCED BY SAID BEN SAID

The photo above was taken by Arnaud Brunet, and published at Metro France. It shows Brian De Palma and an unidentified female guest on the red carpet as they attend the premiere yesterday (Monday) of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's A Castle In Italy, which was produced by Said Ben Said, producer of De Palma's Passion. Earlier this year, Ben Said had mentioned that he and De Palma have a new, as-yet-untitled project in development: "This is a film about cinema that is not devoid of humor or cruelty," Ben Said told CineObs' Nicolas Schaller. "It happens on a shoot between a director, an actor and an actress. De Palma wrote it by drawing on things that have happened to him. It is a kind of film testament." With both of them currently at the Cannes Film Festival, it would seem likely that they would be talking that project up to potential financers and buyers.

Anyway, according to Blog Do Bonequinho's Rodrigo Fonseca, De Palma is at the fest to raise funds for Happy Valley, although he is working out his cinephilia by going to see films every chance he gets. A few days ago, Deadline's Pete Hammond reported that another of De Palma's old friends, Martin Scorsese, had also come to Cannes to raise funds for Silence, which he has been trying to get off the ground at one time or another for the past 23 years. According to Hammond, Scorsese said that by coming to Cannes to sell the film project, he was doing something he'd never done before in his entire career. This was undoubtedly said to get across the sense of passion Scorsese has for the project. But with Steven Spielberg heading the Cannes jury this year, it's sort of a partial "movie brats" reunion.

In addition to A Castle In Italy, De Palma has been spotted at screenings of the following movies since Friday:

May 18 - Sophie Torlotin spotted De Palma at a screening of Rebecca Zlotowski's Grand Central.

May 19 - Olivier Joyard took a picture of De Palma at a screening of Serge Bozon's Tip Top, which Hollywood Reporter critic Stephen Dalton describes as a mix of Godard and the Coen Brothers.

May 20 - Several people, including Alejandro G. Calvo and F-X Taboni, spotted De Palma at a screening of Johnnie To's Blind Detective. Taboni said De Palma left before the end.

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Updated: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 6:42 PM CDT
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