The film, which was co-directed with Leach and producer Cynthia Munroe, had been shot in 1963 but remained unreleased until 1969, when De Palma's star had risen sufficiently within the Greenwich Village filmmaking scene.

Dionysus in 69 ( 1969 ) was De Palma's other major documentary from this period.

De Palma's most significant features from this decade are Greetings ( 1968 ) and Hi, Mom!

Each of these films contains experiments in narrative and intertextuality, reflecting De Palma's stated intention to become the " American Godard " while integrating several of the themes which permeated Hitchcock's work.

" Greetings " ultimately grossed over $ 1 million at the box office and cemented De Palma's position as a bankable filmmaker.

The film is ultimately significant insofar as it displays the first enunciation of De Palma's style in all its major traits – voyeurism, guilt, and a hyper-consciousness of the medium are all on full display, not just as hallmarks, but built into this formal, material apparatus itself.

Making the film was a crushing experience for De Palma as Tommy Smothers didn't like a lot of De Palma's ideas.

The psychic thriller Carrie is seen by some as De Palma's bid for a blockbuster.

Preproduction for the film had coincided with the casting process for George Lucas's Star Wars, and many of the actors cast in De Palma's film had been earmarked as contenders for Lucas's movie, and vice-versa.

Its unconventional unfolding of plot ( exemplified in its mathematical layout of dialogue ) and its stress on perception have analogs in De Palma's filmmaking.

He sought to adapt it on numerous occasions, though the project would carry a substantial price tag, and has yet to appear onscreen ( Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Minority Report bears striking similarities to De Palma's visual style and some of the themes of The Demolished Man ).

As a film it retains De Palma's considerable visual flair, but points more toward his work in mainstream entertainments such as The Untouchables and Mission: Impossible, the thematic complex thrillers for which he is now better known.

For many film-goers, De Palma's gangster films, most notably Scarface and Carlito's Way, pushed the envelope of violence and depravity, and yet greatly vary from one another in both style and content and also illustrate De Palma's evolution as a film-maker.

Of these films, The Bonfire of the Vanities would be De Palma's biggest box office disaster, losing millions.

Because of the subject matter and graphic violence of some of De Palma's films, such as Dressed to Kill, Scarface and Body Double, they are often at the center of controversy with the Motion Picture Association of America, film critics and the viewing public.

Film critics have often noted De Palma's penchant for unusual camera angles and compositions throughout his career.

Psychologists have been intrigued by De Palma's fascination with pathology, by the aberrant behavior aroused in characters who find themselves manipulated by others.

Terrence Malick credits seeing De Palma's early films on college campus tours as a validation of independent film, and subsequently switched his attention from philosophy to filmmaking.

Critics that frequently admire De Palma's work include Pauline Kael, Roger Ebert and Armond White, among others.

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.

Darkman was also a financial success and De Laurentiis had multi-picture deal with Universal and so Army of Darkness became one of the films.

De Palma followed this with various small films for the NAACP and The Treasury Department.

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 Museum of Modern Art in 1965.

Both films star Robert De Niro and espouse a Leftist revolutionary viewpoint common to their era.

In the 1970s, De Palma went to Hollywood where he worked on bigger budget films.

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.

Later into the 1990s and 2000s, De Palma did other films.

He has often produced " De Palma " films one after the other before going on to direct a different genre, but would always return to his familiar territory.

Tarantino said-during interview with De Palma, that Blow Out is one of his all time favourite films, and that after watching Scarface he knew how to make his own film.

Then being employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, he proceeded to make two films: the science-fiction epic Dune ( 1984 ), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet ( 1986 ), which was critically acclaimed.

His films ( often with Peppino De Filippo and almost always with Mario Castellani ) expressed a sort of neorealistic satire, in the means of a guitto ( a " hammy " actor ) as well as with the art of the great dramatic actor he also was.

Despite all this, the film is also one of the most widely seen Godzilla films in the United States — it was popular in its initial theatrical release, largely due to an aggressive marketing campaign, including elaborate posters of the two title monsters battling atop New York City's World Trade Center towers, presumably to capitalize on the hype surrounding the Dino De Laurentiis remake of King Kong, which used a similar image for its own poster.

In May 2010, Loach told Tom Lamont in an interview about the three films that have influenced him most: Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ), Milos Forman's Loves of a Blonde ( 1965 ) and Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers ( 1966 ).

Scorsese is hailed as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers of all time, directing landmark films such as Mean Streets ( 1973 ), Taxi Driver ( 1976 ), Raging Bull ( 1980 ), and Goodfellas ( 1990 ) – all of which he collaborated on with actor and close friend Robert De Niro.

Musical short films were made by Lee De Forest in 1923-24.

The Guru and The 40-Year-Old Virgin also feature Indian-style song-and-dance sequences ; the Bollywood musical Lagaan ( 2001 ) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; two other Bollywood films Devdas ( 2002 ) and Rang De Basanti ( 2006 ) were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; and Danny Boyle's Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ) also features a Bollywood-style song-and-dance number during the film's end credits.

* The De Laurentiis Entertainment Group library was initially distributed by Paramount in Canada, these films are also in the StudioCanal catalog, with MGM, Anchor Bay, and Fox each distributing some titles in North America ).

But as you can also see, it's not a painful exercise at all, because Henri De Courcy -- the `` happy '' bodybuilder -- looks as though he were having the time of his life!!

So with four complete Push-Pull Super-Sets No. 1, four of No. 2, four of No. 3 and four to six sets of the Incline Bench Press, you can see that Henri De Courcy has had a terrific mass-building, muscle-shaping, torso-defining workout that cannot be improved upon.

Nothing can be built on the vague allusions of Jerome, according to whom ' Abraxas ' meant for Basilides " the greatest God " ( De vir.

De Soto argues that because of the legal barriers poor people in those countries can not utilize their assets to produce more wealth.

* Folio 100 recto: Of stones and what they can do ( De effectu lapidum )

A literal is either a variable or the negation of a variable ( the negation of an expression can be reduced to negated variables by De Morgan's laws ).

To prove this, one can combine a proof of the theorem for finite planar graphs with the De Bruijn – Erdős theorem stating that, if every finite subgraph of an infinite graph is k-colorable, then the whole graph is also k-colorable.

" I think the biggest black mark against our management to date is the Cukor situation and we can no longer be sentimental about it .... We are a business concern and not patrons of the arts ..." Cukor was relieved of his duties, but he continued to work with Leigh and De Havilland off the set.

This argument has a long history, and can be traced back at least as far as Cicero's De Natura Deorum ii. 34.

In some of his teachings, as in De annihilatione, the influence of Thomas Aquinas can be detected.

De Bruijn showed that Penrose tilings can be viewed as two-dimensional slices of five-dimensional hypercubic structures.

) presented an early teleological argument in De Natura Deorum ( On the Nature of the Gods ), arguing that divine power can be found in reason, which exists throughout nature.

In his book De Philosophia Cartesiana ( 1668 ) Bekker argued that theology and philosophy each had their separate terrain and that Nature can no more be explained from Scripture than can theological truth be deduced from Nature.

Additionally, Caesar received a letter that can be inferred to have news of Mamurra's death, whereas Vitruvius dedicated De Architectura to the emperor Augustus.

These types of examples can be seen in the work of the ancient philosopher Cicero, especially in his De natura deorum, ii.

* Nicolaus Copernicus publishes De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in Nuremberg ( these last two events can be considered as leading to the Scientific Revolution.

The history of these statements can be traced back to Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption and Cicero's De natura deorum, through Blaise Pascal and Jonathan Swift, and finally to modern statements with their iconic typewriters.

By the end of 1982 Doe Maar notched up their first number 1-hit with De Bom, a joint Ernst -/ Henny-composition with the underlying message ' What's the point of making a career / doing your homework when the ( atomic ) bomb can drop at any moment?

" In later publications " whatever can happen will happen " occasionally is termed " Murphy's law ," which raises the possibility — if something went wrong — that " Murphy " is " De Morgan " misremembered ( an option, among others, raised by Goranson on American Dialect Society list ).

To show the kids the importance of sports and sportsmanship, Feyenoord invite the children to De Kuip to see what sport can do to people: happiness, disappointment, excitement, emotions, fear and cosines, it brings people together.

A general idea of the content of On Speeds can be gleaned from Aristotle's Metaphysics XII, 8, and a commentary by Simplicius of Cilicia ( 6th century CE ) on De caelo, another work by Aristotle.

De Montfort, who had remained in England to prepare for the ruling, at once resumed the war and thus exposed himself to accusations of perjury, from which he can only be defended on the hypothesis that he had been led to hope for a genuine compromise.

The Parliament of 1265 ( De Montfort's Parliament ), which he summoned, was a packed assembly ; but it can hardly be supposed that the representation which he granted to the towns was intended to be a temporary expedient.