Chattanooga Film Fest: King On Screen (2022)
Starting with Carrie, Stephen King was adapted by more than fifty directors and eighty or more films and series were filmed. The beauty of King On Screen is that it brings together nearly every living director who worked on these films, including Tom Holland (The Langoliers, Thinner), Mick Garris (The Stand, Sleepwalkers), Frank Darabont (The Green […]
THE FILMS OF BRIAN DE PALMA: Domino (2019)
I really hope Domino is not Brian De Palma’s last movie. He was not involved in the ADR, the musical recording sessions, the final mix or the color timing of the final print, all elements he would have been obsessed by. He also told The Playlist, “Domino is not my project, I did not write the […]
THE FILMS OF BRIAN DE PALMA: The Responsive Eye (1966)
Brian De Palma shot this twenty-minute short about an optical art exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1965. Artists such as David Hockney, Jeffrey Steele, Mon Levinson, Al Lesley, Josef Albers, Larry Rivers and Marisol appear, as well as architect Philip Johnson, curator William Seitz and actress Pamela Tiffin, who mostly acted in […]
THE FILMS OF BRIAN DE PALMA: To Bridge This Gap (1969)
Early in his directing career, Brian De Palma made this documentary with Ken Burrows. It concerns the discrimination faced by African Americans in the 1960s and the work that it took to establish legal and social precedents that bridged the gap between hard-earned legal victories and the implementation of laws to protect them. This doesn’t […]
THE FILMS OF BRIAN DE PALMA: Femme Fatale (2002)
Laure Ash (Rebecca Romijn) is part of a team of diamond thieves pull a con at the Cannes Film Festival. Yes, not just Jess Franco makes movies about diamonds and gorgeous women. A model named Veronica (Rie Rasmussen) is wearing the jewels as part of a snake dress; she’s attending on the arm of actual […]
THE FILMS OF BRIAN DE PALMA: Passion (2012)
While this was directed and written by Brian De Palma, this is an English-language remake of Alain Corneau’s 2010 thriller film Love Crime with a different ending. It’s an erotic thriller but you know, it’s also very much a thriller. Or a giallo. Or what De Palma does best, you know? Christine Stanford (Rachel McAdams, […]
THE FILMS OF BRIAN DE PALMA: Redacted (2007)
Brian De Palma does not shy away from showing the dark side of war. In the same way that he looked at Vietnam with Casualties of War, Redacted is about the 2006 Mahmudiyah killings in Iraq where U.S. Army soldiers raped an Iraqi girl and murdered her along with her family. PFC Angel “Sally” Salazar (Izzy Diaz) […]
THE FILMS OF BRIAN DE PALMA: Snake Eyes (1998)
Man, more people need to discuss just how much of an influence David Koepp has on pop culture. He wrote I Come In Peace, sure, but he’s also had a string of blockbusters to his credit. Death Becomes Her, the Jurassic Park series, Carlito’s Way, Mission Impossible, Stir of Echoes, Panic Room, Spider-Man, Angels and Demons, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, War […]
THE FILMS OF BRIAN DE PALMA: Black Dahlia (2006)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on July 20, 2022. Based on The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy, which is in turn based on the unsolved 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short — one in which her black hair had been bleached and then dyed red before she was surgically sliced in half with a technique […]
THE FILMS OF BRIAN DE PALMA: Mission to Mars (2000)
Brian De Palma joined this movie after Gore Verbinski. walked away due to c the lack of additional money for the budget. De Palma got that money, which went right into the CGI, but was already written and the film cast. At least Ennio Morricone wrote the music. American critics hated it — at least […]
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