Poll

Your Favorite Brian De Palma Film Is...

haven't seen any
0 (0%)
don't like any
0 (0%)
other
0 (0%)
Greetings
0 (0%)
The Wedding Party
0 (0%)
Hi, Mom!
0 (0%)
Sisters
3 (5.4%)
Phantom of the Paradise
3 (5.4%)
Obsession
0 (0%)
Carrie
9 (16.1%)
The Fury
0 (0%)
Home Movies
0 (0%)
Dressed to Kill
3 (5.4%)
Blow Out
4 (7.1%)
Scarface
5 (8.9%)
Body Double
1 (1.8%)
Wise Guys
0 (0%)
The Untouchables
15 (26.8%)
Casualties of War
0 (0%)
The Bonfire of the Vanities
0 (0%)
Raising Cain
0 (0%)
Carlito's Way
1 (1.8%)
Mission: Impossible
10 (17.9%)
Snake Eyes
0 (0%)
Mission to Mars
1 (1.8%)
Femme Fatale
0 (0%)
The Black Dahlia
0 (0%)
Redacted
1 (1.8%)
Passion
0 (0%)
Domino
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 56

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Brian De Palma
« Reply #70 on: July 18, 2012, 09:19:42 AM »
What's surprising is that there's only 1 vote for Mission to Mars. Being one of DePalma's worst films, I expected at least 4 votes.

Heh, watched 5-10 minutes of this on FX the other eve (the "micrometeor" scene) I like De Palma but that film is just awful.

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Brian De Palma
« Reply #71 on: July 18, 2012, 12:42:24 PM »
I hate Mission to Mars just on the basis of having seen Red Planet.

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Brian De Palma
« Reply #72 on: July 18, 2012, 01:49:42 PM »
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Re: Directors Best Poll - Brian De Palma
« Reply #73 on: July 21, 2012, 11:25:10 AM »

Sisters Brian De Palma, 1973

This is one of the nuttier films I've seen in a while. One night stand turns nightmarish as the "sister" shows up, ready to play out your worst castration fantasies (not really) because of course the girl is horribly deranged (why wouldn't she be?). The film had me when it kept sliding further and further down into just bizarre shit. It's a hell of a lot less interesting when it's all about the girl across the way starts investigating all this. The film only really picks up again when we start getting into hypnosis and fake craziness and flashbacks embedded into fever dreams (it feels like you're going down the world's most CINECAST!ed up rabbit hole). All of which is pretty fun and creepy and unsettling, all things I enjoy.

Editor's Note: the beginning of the film is so hilarious. De Palma is pretty good with these sort of little autonomous clever sequences (the opening of Blow Out, music video in Body Double, I'm sure there are more examples).

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Brian De Palma
« Reply #74 on: March 02, 2014, 02:55:46 PM »
Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)

There are moments in this that broke my heart completely (the circling camera as they dance, Amy Irving approaching Carrie's house) mainly because De Palma's camera is always so expressive and pointed; and yet it remains a ferociously violent film in its emotions and actions. The greatness here is how the film mixes these modes and the way they shift in the film (beginning with teen film and ever so slightly shifting into horror before ultimately arriving at tragedy).

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Brian De Palma
« Reply #75 on: March 02, 2014, 11:45:00 PM »
I've seen Carlito's Way so this poll is basically irrelevant. Surely there can't be a better film, anywhere?

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Brian De Palma
« Reply #76 on: August 17, 2014, 04:05:59 PM »
1. Carlito's Way (1993)
2. Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
3. Blow Out (1981)
4. Body Double (1984)
5. Dresssed to Kill (1980)
6. Carrie (1976)
7. Mission: Impossible (1996)
8. Snake Eyes (1998)
9. Passion (2012)
10. Sisters (1973)

Scarface (1983)

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Brian De Palma
« Reply #77 on: August 17, 2014, 04:12:09 PM »
I'm shocked at how few De Palma films I've seen: Carrie, The Black Dahlia, Blow Out, Mission Impossible and The Untouchables.

Blow Out was quite good, intense.  But the Untouchables is cinematic genius.
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Re: Directors Best Poll - Brian De Palma
« Reply #78 on: August 17, 2014, 04:40:19 PM »
DePalma, for all his faults, aims for cinematic genius more than most filmmakers even dare. His overall average of success has gone down, but when he hits it is something to see.

People have been so busy discovering Phantom of the Paradise these past 10 years. I wonder when they will come around to Casualties of War.

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Brian De Palma
« Reply #79 on: August 17, 2014, 05:01:12 PM »
Pretty sure I've seen Casualties of War but don't really remember it.