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Post by movielover on May 9, 2017 19:47:01 GMT
Pick up to 4 of your favorite movies directed by Brian De Palma. You don't necessarily have to pick 4. Pick as few or as many as you like, but the max is 4. Have fun! Feel free to post the movies you voted for, if you want.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2017 20:01:02 GMT
1) Dressed to Kill
2) Carrie
3) The Untouchables
4) Carlito's Way |
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Post by moviemouth on May 9, 2017 20:19:03 GMT
1. Scarface 2. The Untouchables 3. Carrie 4. Body Double
Where's Redacted? That is one of my favorites from him and is a great companion piece to Casualties of War. |
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Post by movielover on May 9, 2017 20:24:42 GMT
1. Scarface 2. The Untouchables 3. Carrie 4. Body Double
Where's Redacted? That is one of my favorites from him and is a great companion piece to Casualties of War. My bad, I was trying to leave out some of (what I thought were) his more obscure movies. Didn't realize that was a good one. I'll try to be more inclusive in the future. |
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Post by NewtJorden on May 9, 2017 20:26:57 GMT
1. Carrie
2. The Untouchables
3. Scarface
4. The Black Dahlia
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Post by moviemouth on May 9, 2017 20:27:30 GMT
1. Scarface 2. The Untouchables 3. Carrie 4. Body Double
Where's Redacted? That is one of my favorites from him and is a great companion piece to Casualties of War. My bad, I was trying to leave out some of (what I thought were) his more obscure movies. Didn't realize that was a good one. I'll try to be more inclusive in the future. I would have left out The Black Dahlia LOL. That movie sucks hard. |
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Post by TheSowIsMine on May 9, 2017 20:30:28 GMT
Carrie
Body Double
Sisters
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Post by movielover on May 9, 2017 20:41:26 GMT
My bad, I was trying to leave out some of (what I thought were) his more obscure movies. Didn't realize that was a good one. I'll try to be more inclusive in the future. I would have left out The Black Dahlia LOL. That movie sucks hard. That's what I've heard from just about everyone, but I read one poster on this site talking about how she actually liked it, so I went ahead and included it. |
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Post by Nalkarj on May 9, 2017 20:44:47 GMT
Dressed to Kill is at the top of my list--it's a very intriguing piece of a work, a cinematically fascinating riff on Hitchcock--but after that?
Obsession intrigues me because it's inferior to Vertigo (of course), but it's the "Vertigo" that Bernard Herrmann always wanted. (Herrmann and Hitchcock apparently fought on the setting, the atmosphere, and the protagonist.) It's still a decent movie, even if a case study in all the ways that De Palma is different from Hitch.
I was undecided about whether to give a vote to Carrie or Phantom of the Paradise (this latter perhaps the most bizarre of De Palma's many bizarre films), but Carrie will be the easy favorite, so I decided to give my vote to Phantom.
I'm afraid I don't much like Scarface or The Untouchables, and I gave my fourth vote to Mission: Impossible, which is not only the best film in that interesting series but also the only one that feels genuinely personal. All of the films in that series are above-average for summer blockbusters, but only the first feels like an offshoot of its director's personality.
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Post by marth on May 9, 2017 20:50:07 GMT
Dressed To Kill
Carrie
Scarface
Carlito´s Way
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Post by Spike Del Rey on May 9, 2017 21:09:25 GMT
Very derivative career, but up until the late 80s-early 90s an entertaining one nonetheless. No real order here, but my top four:
The Fury--Essentially Carrie on steroids.
Dressed to Kill--What Psycho might have been if nudity had been allowed in 1960.
Scarface--A moral fable about excess, and a pretty good pre-cursor to what the 80s would become.
The Untouchables--Just re-watched this, and while I'm not sure it holds up fantastically, it's so stylish that I was able to overlook a wooden performance by Costner, and by-the-number efforts from Connery and DeNiro.
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Post by movielover on May 9, 2017 21:25:34 GMT
Very derivative career, but up until the late 80s-early 90s an entertaining one nonetheless. No real order here, but my top four: The Fury--Essentially Carrie on steroids. LOL!Dressed to Kill--What Psycho might have been if nudity had been allowed in 1960. I've always said De Palma movies are what Hitchcock movies would've been like without censorship.Scarface--A moral fable about excess, and a pretty good pre-cursor to what the 80s would become. The Untouchables--Just re-watched this, and while I'm not sure it holds up fantastically, it's so stylish that I was able to overlook a wooden performance by Costner, and by-the-number efforts from Connery and DeNiro. Costner prevented me from loving this one. |
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Post by Ass_E9 on May 9, 2017 21:46:45 GMT
Blow Out
Body Double
The Fury
Raising Cain
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Post by marth on May 9, 2017 21:59:14 GMT
Costner prevented me from loving this one. My thoughts exactly. For the same reason I like it, but not love it. |
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Post by jcush on May 9, 2017 22:42:07 GMT
1. Scarface
2. Carlito's Way
3. Carrie
4. The Untouchables
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Post by sostie on May 10, 2017 12:40:30 GMT
1. The Untouchables
2. Carlito's Way
3. The Fury
4. Raising Cain
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Post by Dayodead on May 10, 2017 13:05:47 GMT
Carlito's Way
Dressed to Kill
Body Double
Carrie
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Post by mslo79 on May 10, 2017 18:10:00 GMT
1.Carlito's Way (1993) - 9/10
2.Mission Impossible (1996) - 7.5-8/10
3.Scarface (1983) - 7/10
the rest are nothing special.
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Post by fangirl1975 on May 10, 2017 20:36:58 GMT
The Untouchables
Carrie
Mission To Mars
The Black Dahlia (don't judge; I happen to like noir and neo noir)
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Post by Nalkarj on May 10, 2017 20:50:27 GMT
Very derivative career, but up until the late 80s-early 90s an entertaining one nonetheless. No real order here, but my top four: The Fury--Essentially Carrie on steroids. Dressed to Kill-- What Psycho might have been if nudity had been allowed in 1960. Scarface--A moral fable about excess, and a pretty good pre-cursor to what the 80s would become. The Untouchables--Just re-watched this, and while I'm not sure it holds up fantastically, it's so stylish that I was able to overlook a wooden performance by Costner, and by-the-number efforts from Connery and DeNiro. DePalma greatly interests me as something of an auteurist just because he is clearly borrowing images and themes from Hitchcock, yet, if one looks beneath the surface, he clearly has his own, distinct themes and goals, very different from Hitch's. Thus, what he does shows Hitchcock's uniqueness (one can take Hitch's images, but not his spirit--something also proved in Van Sant's atrocious Psycho remake) and DePalma's own strength, as he is a good filmmaker in spite of borrowing Hitchcockian themes. (DePalma, like Van Sant, has also wildly wrecked his Hitchcockian basis on one occasion: Body Double, which is intriguing in spots but is on the whole terrible in my opinion, with an incredibly lousy central performance from Craig Wasson.) Dressed to Kill is my favorite DePalma picture, and I think it best demonstrates what I mean: it's clearly borrowing from Psycho, but DePalma is obviously interested in telling his own tale, his own way, which is not the same as Hitchcock's (who did put nudity, albeit quite restrained, in Frenzy). Hitch probably would have broken the rather unsurprising twist to the audience halfway through, and he would have done so much of it very differently. The story is similar, then, but the direction is completely different (even DePalma's clear "shower scene" derivation in the "elevator scene" shows a distinct mise-en-scène, with more emphasis on shock). Actually, that's a good trichotomy: most directors emphasize surprise, Hitchcock emphasized suspense, and DePalma emphasizes shock. Not in a cheap, sleazy way (though he can do that--Body Double is the case in point), I hasten to add, but rather a "whoa! What was that?" way, if you'll forgive the onomatopoeia! |
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