THE FILMS OF BRIAN DE PALMA: Woton’s Wake (1963)
Directed and written by Brian De Palma, this stars Willian Finley as Woton Wretchichevsky, a disfigured man who hides under a cloak and mask. He spends most of his time either sculpting steel and garbage works of art or hunting down young lovers and murdering them with the same blowtorch that he uses to create. […]
THE FILMS OF BRIAN DE PALMA: Dionysus in ‘69 (1970)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A.C. Nicholas, who has a sketchy background and hails from parts unknown in Western Pennsylvania, was once a drive-in theater projectionist and disk jockey, Currently, in addition to being a writer, editor, podcaster, and voice-over artist, he contributes to Drive-In Asylum. His first article, “Grindhouse Memories Across the U.S.A.,” was published in […]
THE FILMS OF BRIAN DE PALMA: Mission Impossible (1996)
While working on Interview with the Vampire, Tom Cruise met Brian De Palma at a dinner with Steven Spielberg. When he went back home, he saw all of De Palma’s films and hired him to direct Mission: Impossible. Paramount Pictures had owned the rights to the original show and had tried for years to make […]
THE FILMS OF BRIAN DE PALMA: Carlito’s Way (1993)
Al Pacino was working out at a New York City YMCA when he met New York state supreme court Judge Edwin Torres, the writer of Carlito’s Way and After Hours, the books this movie is based on. He’d tried several times to make a film version — even facing a 1989 lawsuit where he went back on […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2023: Salute Your Shorts
Salute Your Shorts is the student and Tennessee filmmaker showcase as part of the Chattanooga Film Festival. There are some great films here, so get ready to dig in! Stephen King’s All That You Love Will Be Carried Away (2023): Based on the Stephen King short story, this is the tale of Alfie Zimmer, (John Ennis) a […]
THE FILMS OF BRIAN DE PALMA: Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
The Bonfire of the Vanities was a bestseller. The movie, well, not so much. It was a mess from the beginning. Tom Wolfe’s book was identified with the excesses of the 80s. The movie, well, pretty much the same thing. The big problem is that the book doesn’t have a likable or even sympathetic character. […]
Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 3: Fright Night
Jeff Corey mostly worked as an actor but also directed several TV series, including nine episodes of Night Gallery. Here, he’s working from a script by Robert Malcolm Young (Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land ) based on a story by Kurt van Elting. Tom Oglivy (Stuart Whitman) and his wife Leona (Barbara Anderson) have moved […]
THE FILMS OF BRIAN DE PALMA: Casualties of War (1989)
Based primarily on an article written by Daniel Lang for The New Yorker about Hill 192 in Vietnam, which was later published as a book, this was directed by Brian De Palma and written by David Rabe. It was filmed in Thailand, including one scene shot on the same bridge as the one in The […]
Junesploitation: China O’Brien (1990)
June 23: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Cynthia Rothrock! We’re excited to tackle a different genre every day, so check back and see what’s next. Robert Clouse worked with some of the greatest martial artists on film, from Bruce Lee to Jim Kelly, Robert Wall, Bolo Yeung, […]
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