Brian De Palma
American film director and screenwriter · United States · Directors · Born 1940 · age 86
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Something wrong?He wanted to be the American Godard but became Hollywood's most unrepentant Hitchcock disciple instead - splitting audiences for fifty years with films that are either hypnotic genre exercises or exploitative trash, depending who's watching.
A life in dates
Mr. ScorseseSeries2023
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight CowboyFilm2017
SpielbergFilm2013
PassionFilm, Director, Writer2005
Gangland: Bullets over HollywoodFilm2004
KulturplatzSeries
Leçon de CinémaSeries, 20042001
Acting 'Carrie'Film1997
Scene by SceneSeries1996
Mission: ImpossibleFilm, Director1992
Raising CainFilm, Director, Writer1987
The UntouchablesFilm, Director1984
Body DoubleFilm, Director, Writer1980
Dressed to KillFilm, Director, Writer1976
CarrieFilm, Director1972
Get to Know Your RabbitFilm, Director1969
The Wedding PartyFilm, Director, Writer1963
Woton's WakeFilm, Director, Writer1940Born11 September 1940Also in Deutsch
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DCDesperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
ENEnnio
DODominoSPSpielberg
DPDe PalmaPAPassion
RERedacted
TDThe Black Dahlia
SISistersGHGangland: Bullets over Hollywood
FFFemme FataleACActing 'Carrie'
MMMission to Mars
SESnake Eyes
TSThe Making of 'Scarface'MIMission: Impossible
CWCarlito's WayRCRaising Cain
TVThe Bonfire of the Vanities
CWCasualties of WarTUThe Untouchables
WGWise GuysBDBody Double
SCScarface
BOBlow OutDKDressed to Kill
HMHome Movies
TFThe FuryCACarrie
OBObsession
PPPhantom of the Paradise
SISistersGRGet to Know Your Rabbit
HMHi, Mom!
DIDionysus in '69TPThe Wedding Party
GRGreetings
MMMurder à la Mod
TEThe Responsive EyeWWWoton's Wake119 credits on file
Television 4
MSMr. ScorseseKUKulturplatzLCLeçon de CinémaSSScene by SceneAwards
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Born September 11, 1940, De Palma broke through with early cult oddities like Greetings (1968) and Hi, Mom! (1970) before Stephen King's Carrie (1976) announced him as a young director who could make suspense sing. The next decade built his reputation as both craftsman and provocateur: Dressed to Kill (1980) lifted whole sequences from Hitchcock, Blow Out (1981) reworked Antonioni's Blowup, and Scarface (1983) - his remake of the 1932 Hawks original - became a cult monument despite its savagery. The Untouchables (1987) and Mission: Impossible (1996) brought him mainstream commercial wins, but critics stayed split: Ebert and Kael defended the formal brilliance; others saw only the blood and sex. Noah Baumbach's 2015 documentary let De Palma explain himself at length, though by then his style had long since calcified into signature.
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