Brian De Palma is an American director known for stylish thrillers that often play with narrative structure and visual suspense, working across crime dramas like Scarface and espionage spectacles such as Mission: Impossible. I have reviewed 7 of his films on the site so far.
Rating: 3.5★
Brian De Palma arrived at Dressed to Kill in 1980 already well-established as Hollywood's most devoted, and most forensically skilled, student of Alfred Hitchcock. He had spent the previous decade developing a body of work that wore its Hitchcock influences openly, from the split-screen paranoia of
Rating: 4.0★
Nobody has ever worn their Hitchcock influence quite as proudly, or as quite as well, as Brian De Palma, and Blow Out is one of the films that earns him the comparison outright. He is one of my favourite directors, full stop, so I came to this already predisposed to
Rating: 3.5★
Brian De Palma had me from the very beginning. Not the beginning of his career, mind you, but the beginning of Sisters, a 1972 film I came to surprisingly late and with surprisingly little foreknowledge. The opening scenes hook you with a deceptively simple premise and then tighten the grip,
Genre Crime
★★★½ — The Untouchables (1987)
Genre Horror
★★★½ — Carrie (1976)
Genre Action
★★★★½ — Scarface (1983)
Genre Crime
★★★★★ — Carlito's Way (1993)
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