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A documentary about writer and director Brian De Palma.A documentary about writer and director Brian De Palma.A documentary about writer and director Brian De Palma.
- Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations
Mark Hamill
- Self
- (archive footage)
Amy Irving
- Self
- (archive footage)
Kurt Russell
- Self
- (archive footage)
Sissy Spacek
- Self
- (archive footage)
Steven Spielberg
- Self
- (archive footage)
Angela Bettis
- Carietta 'Carrie' White
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Jill Clayburgh
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Clarence Clemons
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
William Finley
- Winslow
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- …
Vincent Gardenia
- Doctor Byrd
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Don Harvey
- Clark
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Annette Haven
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Gale Anne Hurd
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Holly Johnson
- Singing Nightclub Doorman
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Alan King
- Arthur Ruskin
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaPaltrow and Baumbach filmed Brian De Palma for one week in 2010, collecting about 30 hours worth of interview footage. De Palma, sitting in Paltrow's living room and talking about his career, wore the same shirt every day for continuity's sake. But the movie ended up premiering in 2015 and the director made another movie years after the interview, which explains why when he talks about Passion the viewer only hears his voice but doesn't see him talking.
- GoofsFemme Fatale (2002)'s release date is incorrectly listed as 2000, both in the body of the film and in the end credits.
- Quotes
[repeated line]
Brian De Palma: Holy mackerel.
- ConnectionsFeatures The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
- SoundtracksDe Palma (Main Title Theme)
Written by Nathan Johnson
Courtesy of Choplogic Music
Under license from Nathan Johnson
Featured review
More a conversation than a documentary...
Brian De Palma is one of those directors whose films are very polarizing (with a few exceptions, of course). Being that he no longer works within the Hollywood establishment and his output has been drastically reduced, I guess a documentary will have to do. And boy, what a documentary! Still, the word 'documentary' doesn't really describe this film that well, since it's more like a one-on-one conversation. De Palma is very candid about his past and doesn't shy away from emphatically stating his opinions on people he's worked with and his own work. One thing that did surprise me was how little Hitchcock, his clearest influence, was brought up. Not a criticism, just an observation. Clips from VERTIGO, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, and REAR WINDOW are shown, though, in the context of techniques or stylistic features that De Palma learned from them. If anything, the range of artistic influences was much wider than I had ever realized before. Even if he never made another film, De Palma has left behind an incredible body of work that deserves serious study and consideration, and this documentary fills a void for everyone. It provides a nice retrospective for those already familiar and, for those not, a great place to start.
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- brchthethird
- Sep 24, 2016
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $165,237
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $30,355
- Jun 12, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $168,045
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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