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Tuesday, January 17, 2017

'BLOW-UP' & 'BLOW OUT' IN BROOKLYN THURSDAY
DOUBLE FEATURE IS PART OF "STAFF PICKS" SERIES THIS WEEK AT SYNDICATED

Hot on the heels of last Friday's double feature of Blow Out and The Conversation at The Carolina Theatre in Durham, North Carolina-- a theater in Brooklyn will pair Brian De Palma's film with its other main antecedent, Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up. The double feature happens at Syndicated this Thursday night (January 19th), as part of the theater's weeklong "Staff Picks" series. Blow-Up screens at 7pm, followed by Blow Out at 9:45pm.

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Updated: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 10:24 PM CST
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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

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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.

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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.

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Monday, January 9, 2017

TWEETS - ELDER STATESMEN OF CLASSICISM

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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.)

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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

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Monday, January 2, 2017

NEW SHORT FROM ROMAIN LEHNHOFF
NEW YEAR'S THEMED 'STARTING FROM SCRATCH', W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES

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Updated: Monday, January 2, 2017 2:05 PM CST
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Friday, December 30, 2016

'SCARFACE' POSTER ART

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