[60] In her book The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema, Linda Ruth Williams writes that "De Palma understood the cinematic potency of dangerous fucking, perhaps earlier than his feminist detractors".

Filme Brian de Palma: Horror-Spezialist und Hitchcock-Fan Hollywood-Regisseur Brian de Palma wandelt gern auf den Spuren Alfred Hitchcocks. [12] The film is noteworthy for its invocation of silent film techniques and an insistence on the jump-cut for effect.

His Italian-American parents were Vivienne DePalma (née Muti), and Anthony DePalma, an orthopedic surgeon who was the son of immigrants from Alberona, Province of Foggia. daughter of The Birds star Tippi Hedren). Sometimes criticized as a mere imitation of Alfred Hitchcock, De Palma's work, though it pays homage to Hitchcock, differs strikingly in subject matter and technique.

Although De Palma works primarily in the genre of the psychological thriller, elements of romance, horror and gangster melodramas are explored as well. The Untouchables' finale shoot out in the train station is a clear borrow from the Odessa Steps sequence in Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin. Because of the subject matter and graphic violenceof some of De Palma's films, such as Dressed to Kill, Scarface and B… Adept at urban location shooting, De Palma has brought to the screen the visual ambience of such cities as Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans and Florence. Every time we see Jake at a studio, fake backdrops and boulders are being wheeled away. Split-screen techniques have been used to show two separate events happening simultaneously.

[7] He won a regional science-fair prize for a project titled "An Analog Computer to Solve Differential Equations". Years after the tragedy… [51] De Palma has responded to accusations of misogyny by saying: "I'm always attacked for having an erotic, sexist approach – chopping up women, putting women in peril. Paranoid conspiracy and power politics shape the ethical dilemmas of the young heroes in such works as Blow Out and Casualties of War. He amps up the sex and the sleaze in the second half when Jake, who predictably goes into amateur-sleuth mode, infiltrates the hardcore porn world and gets cast in some sort of glossy kinkfest—complete with Frankie Goes To Hollywood performing its signature tune, “Relax”—opposite porn queen Holly Body (Melanie Griffith, a.k.a. I came up with the idea of split-screen, to be able to show the actual audience involvement, to trace the life of the audience and that of the play as they merge in and out of each other. De Palma began making films as a student, first at Columbia, later at Sarah Lawrence.

Even Carrie, which explores the social conformity and cruelty of teenage bonding, essentially parodies itself through De Palma's characteristic black humor. A subtext of family romance and oedipal conflict underlies the psychological power of De Palma's vision. Without question, the movie’s most over-the-top moment, when Wasson and Shelton share a passionate kiss on the beach, is also its most deliberately inauthentic. Später feierte er kommerzielle Erfolge mit Actionfilmen. Let the Fighting Start", "Director Brian De Palma's underrated gems, decade by decade", "FILM: DEPALMA EVOKES 'VERTIGO' IN BODY DOUBLE", "The New Cult Canon: Femme Fatale | Film | The New Cult Canon", "Iraq war atrocity film Redacted bombs in US", "Brian de Palma y un Lannister, rodaje en Málaga", "Brian de Palma rodará el thriller "Domino" en Almería", "Brian de Palma busca figurantes para el rodaje en Almería de 'Domino, "Brian De Palma rueda ya en la Plaza de Toros", "El misterio del rodaje de 'Domino', de Brian de Palma", "Brian de Palma abandona Almería y se lleva el rodaje de 'Domino' a Dinamarca", "Brian de Palma y Nikolaj Coster-Waldau tendrán su estrella en el Paseo de la Fama por el rodaje de 'Domino, "Brian De Palma Q & A: 'Passion,' McAdams vs. Rapace, Sex Tools UPDATED (New Trailer)", "The Director's Craft: The death-deifying De Palma", "‘Dionysus in ‘69’: Brian De Palma’s Balance of the Profane and the Political", "Quentin Tarantino: The Complete Syllabus of His Influences and References", "FrightFest 2014 Day 4 review: killers, singers and demons", "Infliction: An Interview With Jack Thomas Smith", "Cahiers du Cinema: Top Ten Lists 1951-2009", "From the Short Stack: David Thomson on Brian De Palma in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film", Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database, Photos and discussion around the director, Brian De Palma's UBUWeb entry, featuring early short films, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brian_De_Palma&oldid=985647965, American film directors of Italian descent, Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

(1970). "[62] Pauline Kael's review of Casualties of War, "A Wounded Apparition", describes the film as "feminist" and notes that "De Palma was always involved in examining (and sometimes satirizing) victimization, but he was often accused of being a victimizer". "Steve Rose Talks to Director Brian De Palma", "Blow Out: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Gadgeteer", "Brian de Palma: 'Film lies all the time … 24 times a second, "Brian De Palma talks about his stylish new remake, Passion", "Brian De Palma Remembers Filming a Student Film With Kirk Douglas", "Director Brian De Palma and Actress Nancy Allen Just Got Carrie-D Away", "Sissy Spacek, Carrie Fisher – Princess Leia ('Star Wars'): Sissy Spacek – Almost Cast: Who Lost Iconic Roles? The main plot from Rear Window was used for Body Double, while it also used elements of Vertigo. [14], During the 1960s, De Palma began making a living producing documentary films, notably The Responsive Eye, a 1966 movie about The Responsive Eye op-art exhibit curated by William Seitz for MOMA in 1965. Double is basically his balls-to-the-wall response, a movie that’s not only blatantly Hitchcockian but also blatantly De Palma. (Vincent Canby called it “[De Palma’s] most blatant variation to date on a Hitchcock film,” while Paul Attanasio said it is “carefully calculated to offend almost everyone”). Slow-motion is frequently used in his films to increase suspense. But the Hitchcock comparisons—along with criticism he received for how he characterized LGBTQ people and sexually liberated women in Dressed—must’ve started to get on De Palma’s nerves. Vertigo was also the basis for Obsession.