FILM COMMENT PODCAST ON DE PALMA
BAUMBACH & PALTROW INTERVIEWED, FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION OF DE PALMA'S FILMSFilm 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.