# REDIRECT Brian De Palma

Brian Russell De Palma ( born September 11, 1940 ) is an American film director and writer.

After several small, studio and independent released films that included stand-outs Sisters, Phantom Of The Paradise, and Obsession, a small film based on a novel called Carrie was released directed by Brian De Palma.

Kael wrote in her review of Blow Out, " At forty, Brian De Palma has more than twenty years of moviemaking behind him, and he has been growing better and better.

In Dune: House Corrino ( published in 2001 and the third novel in the Prelude to Dune prequel series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson ), Piter De Vries discovers the Harkonnen heritage of Lady Jessica and her newborn son Paul, and attempts to kidnap and ransom the infant.

Brian De Palma dedicated his version of Scarface to Hawks and Ben Hecht.

Also in the 1970s, horror author Stephen King debuted on the film scene as many of his books were adapted for the screen, beginning with Brian De Palma's adaptation of King's first published novel, Carrie ( 1976 ), which was nominated for Academy Awards.

Voight next appeared in 1996's blockbuster Mission: Impossible, directed by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Cruise.

Fox re-released it around college campuses on a double-bill with another rock music film parody, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise, but again it drew small audiences.

Other films scored by Sakamoto include Pedro Almodóvar's Tacones lejanos ( High Heels ) ( 1991 ), Bertolucci's The Little Buddha ( 1993 ), Oliver Stone's Wild Palms ( 1993 ), John Maybury's Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon ( 1998 ), Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes ( 1998 ) and Femme Fatale ( 2002 ), Oshima's Gohatto ( 1999 ), and Kiran Rao's Dhobi Ghat ( 2011 ).

The filmmaker Brian De Palma has incorporated split screens into many of his films, most notably in Sisters ( 1973 ) and they have since become synonymous with his filmmaking style ( Specifically 1981's Blow Out and 1998's Snake Eyes ).

* Films by Brian De Palma:

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In defense of the film's portrait of warfare, filmmaker Brian De Palma commented, " The level of violence in something like Saving Private Ryan makes sense because Spielberg is trying to show something about the brutality of what happened.

According to Scorsese it was Brian De Palma who introduced him to Schrader.

* Casualties of War ( 1989 ) — directed by Brian De Palma.

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* September 11 – Brian De Palma, American film director

* Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise ( 1974 );

He was part of the wave of " New Hollywood " directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola.

Filmmakers such as Brian De Palma and Martin Scorsese have named it one of their all time favorite films.

Director Brian De Palma, having seen Grease 2, refused to audition Pfeiffer for Scarface ( 1983 ), but relented upon the producer's insistence.

The opening scene is replicated midway through Brian De Palma's 1974 camp musical film Phantom of the Paradise.

She came to international prominence for her roles as Holly Sargis in Terrence Malick's 1973 film Badlands, and as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie ( based on the first novel by Stephen King ) for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination.

Screenwritten by Lawrence D. Cohen and directed by Brian De Palma, the film starred Sissy Spacek as Carrie, along with Piper Laurie as Margaret, Amy Irving as Sue, Nancy Allen as Chris, John Travolta as Billy, Betty Buckley as Miss Desjardin a. k. a. Miss Collins, and William Katt as Tommy.

The scene is perhaps the best example of Eisenstein's theory on montage, and many films pay homage to the scene, including Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, Tibor Takacs ' Deathline, Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box, George Lucas's Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Chandrashekhar Narvekar's Hindi film Tezaab, Shukō Murase's anime Ergo Proxy and Peter Sellers ' The Magic Christian.

In motion pictures, Tom Smothers portrayed corporate-executive-turned-tap-dancing-magician Donald Beeman in one of Brian De Palma's earlier films, Get to Know Your Rabbit ( 1972 ).

The three best-known of these include the 1950s / 1960s TV series titled The Untouchables, which starred Robert Stack as Ness and which Walter Winchell narrated, and Brian De Palma's Oscar-winning film of the same title, The Untouchables, which starred Kevin Costner as Ness and also featured Sean Connery and Robert De Niro.

Director Brian De Palma's earliest, heavily-stylistic films ( one example being Dressed to Kill ) are particularly reminiscent of Hitchcock's tense thrillers.

Williams had scored Brian De Palma's commercial failure Phantom of the Paradise, but had also written huge pop-radio hits ( such as We've Only Just Begun ( lyrics ), and ( Just An ) Old Fashioned Love Song ).

The diminutive " the boonies " can be heard in films about the Vietnam War such as Brian De Palma's Casualties of War.

During this period, Belushi made his television debut in 1978's Who's Watching the Kids and also had a small part in Brian De Palma's The Fury.

In 2006, she starred in Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia in which she plays the young aspiring actress, Elizabeth Short, who was mysteriously mutilated and murdered in 1947.

Brian De Palma's Obsession ( 1976 ) is a remake of Hitchcock's 1958 classic Vertigo.

Among St. George's recent appearances is the murder scene in Brian De Palma's 1973 film Sisters with Margot Kidder playing both separated conjoined twins, Danielle and Dominique ( the doppelgänger ) took place in the apartment building on Hamilton Avenue between Stuyvesant Place and Academy Place.

McAdams starred in 2012's romantic drama The Vow, and will next appear in Terrence Malick's To the Wonder, Brian De Palma's Passion, Richard Curtis's About Time and Anton Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man.

McAdams ' second film to premiere at the film festival was Brian De Palma's Passion.

The basilica served as an important setting in Brian de Palma's 1976 film Obsession ( 1976 film ).

A pastiche of Brian De Palma's Carrie, it conveyed much of the theatre of early Sluts of Trust gigs, and alongside other members of the Scottish Youth Theatre it starred Sean Biggerstaff and Paul Kelly of The Martial Arts.

He also portrayed the murderous Bolivian drug lord Alejandro Sosa in Brian De Palma's 1983 version of Scarface.

He also acted in Jim Jarmusch's " Mystery Train " ( 1989 ) as Will Robinson ; Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part III ( 1990 ) as Mask # 1 ; Brian De Palma's Carlito's Way ( 1993 ) as " Quisqueya ", starring Al Pacino ; in Waterworld ( 1995 ) as the Gatesman, starring Kevin Costner and in Joe's Apartment ( 1996 ) as the voice of a cockroach.

Guy-Man and Thomas met two decades ago this year, at the perfect cinema-going ages of 13 and 12 ... the one movie which they saw together more than 20 times was Phantom of the Paradise, Brian De Palma's 1974 rock musical, based loosely around Phantom of the Opera ( both this and Electroma feature ' a hero with a black leather outfit and a helmet ').

* Jessica Harper took the role in the 1974 rock-musical version, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise.