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Watch: De Palma 2015 123movies, Full Movie Online – In the annals of Hollywood film since the artistic glories of the New Hollywood era, few have a better reputation and body of work in the field of suspense films exploring the contemporary darkness in American life than Brian De Palma. Here, the great film writer and director takes, us in his own words, through his professional life and a career that redefined film horror and suspense. All the while, he also confesses the challenges of working in Hollywood and the price even the great artists pay for being a part of it..
Plot: An intimate conversation between filmmakers, chronicling De Palma’s 55-year career, his life, and his filmmaking process, with revealing anecdotes and, of course, a wealth of film clips.
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	7.4/10 Votes: 5,644
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	83/100 | MetaCritic
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Reviews:

Holy mackerel!
This documentary is by and large an excellent film school in 108 minutes, which is just slightly ironic as at one point in a moment of candor (among several if not often points for this man), he says how film schools produce many people who just won’t ever really get into the film business (he gives a percentage of people who just won’t make it, and it’s high). Sometimes things do simply come out to good luck, good timing, and maybe for certain studio heads and people frankly go to see the blasted things (Carrie, as we can see here, was from all four of those things coming together at once).

The whole thing is De Palma only, talking to the camera, with a tiny bit at the end of him walking down the street for… some reason I’m not sure of, maybe .98% of him doing something other than talking and gesticulating was necessary – and this is juxtaposed with some photos and newspaper clippings and footage from ALL the De Palma movies (including little side pieces like “Wonton’s Wake”, a student film, and he even gives an anecdote about being the one with the idea to bring Courtney Cox on stage for his charming music video for “Dancin’ in the Dark”). It’s a full retrospective of the violent, the satiric, the operatic, and the messy.

I’m glad Paltrow and Baumbach took this approach; if it had been the requisite usual documentary where other talking heads chimed in about who this guy was and his films perhaps other opinions could pipe in, but if the movie is called DE PALMA, give us a full course of the man! And this does as far as it being a full life story, with the semi-framing of Vertigo, Hitchcock’s masterwork of surrealism and voyeuristic nightmares realizes, being the lynchpin for many of his works (Obsession, Dressed to Kill, Body Double, basically any movie that has a long take of a character following another or doubles being used, not to mention Bernard Herrmann). There’s also, something I’m glad about, not too much in the way of trying to deep-focus-psychoanalyze the man as far as his films; the questions, though we don’t hear them, seem to lead to straightforward answers (whether you like what he has to say about women – in his plain language, he says, “I like following women, I think they make good subjects on film” in so many words, that depends on how you see it in his films).

Because it’s all on him for those interviews, camera planted down as De Palma talks, the scenes from his many films, from The Wedding Party to Passion (50 years!), it doesn’t feel bogged down at any time – from one movie it leads to another and another, and I liked that I came away understanding there was no real grand plan for De Palma as a filmmaker (he didn’t know he wanted to even be one until college, again with good timing the Nouvelle Vague changed everything as well as American experimental cinema), and this is a documentary that is charting a real commercial artist of the 2nd half of the 20th century.

By this I mean he is conscious of the money – one of the anecdotes about Carrie reveals how he knew down to 200 grand what a movie *would* cost with a certainty – and yet even with this consciousness he could go too far; look at what happened between 1987 and 1993, where he goes from one of his biggest successes (Untouchables) to a personal triumph but financial flop (Casualties of War), a general fiasco (Bonfire, though he says he still enjoys the movie, “Don’t read the book”, he says half jokingly), and then another personal film but this time as one of *his* thrillers (Raising Cain) and finally what he thought of as “I can’t make something better than this (Carlito’s Way, one of my personal favorites) – it all shows a man working in the system (perhaps sometimes against his better judgment, though it’s not to say he didn’t want his films to be seen and appreciated, he clearly did and still does), but he was always finding his way through the films, falling on his face at times, but still coming away with how he wants to do it, if only by the skin of his teeth.

If there is a complaint to have it’s not even that it’s too short, per-say, but near the end the section of De Palma’s life and career in this century feels short-changed; perhaps this may be intentional by way of the director’s point near the end where he brings it back to Hitchcock, that, according to him, post-Psycho his films didn’t connect because a filmmaker’s best work is in their 30’s-40’s-50’s (spoken like a true Tarantino eh?), however I still wanted to know more about this latter-day films, that have interesting elements even as they go back to his roots (Femme Fatale, Redacted, Passion being good films, the middle one showing some innovation even in his latter years). This said, for at least 100 minutes this is film-geek ecstasy, with stories that sometimes feel like their from the front-lines, and you can’t help but laugh at some/several of them. His candor brings you in, but it’s also that he can simply be fully engaging with an audience as a speaker (albeit it’s clear occasionally he’s talking to two filmmakers behind the camera), and so for regular audiences who may have only seen Scarface or Carrie or the first M:I movie and want to more more it can be compelling as well.

To put it another way, if I showed this to my film school students, I’d almost feel like I wouldn’t need to hold too many other classes – except, maybe, probably, to just make a damn movie as a collective ala Home Movies!

Simple, honest, insightful and extremely entertaining
For those with in interest in De Palma’s films and long career, or just cinema in general, this is a highly entertaining and informative visit with one of the most interesting, controversial and eclectic American film makers of the last 50 years.

The form couldn’t be simpler. Just Brian De Palma sitting in a chair telling stories about each of his films in chronological order, from his first shorts in the mid 1960s to “Passion” in 2013 – an amazing span of almost 50 years. His comments are interspersed with well chosen clips from his own work, and – when he makes a reference – those of other film-makers as well.

What makes this form work so well is that De Palma is a terrific interview subject. He’s funny, thoughtful, insightful, and sometimes very entertainingly snarky. He is also tremendously honest. He saves many of his toughest criticisms for himself, analyzing with surgical precision why certain of his films could have been better, and his part in those lapses. Very few directors are willing to talk at length about choices and moments they regret, usually choosing only to blame others for artistic goals falling short. But by acknowledging his own choices that didn’t work out he makes himself very human, empathetic and trustworthy as a subject. He’s not interested in self-glorification as much as he is in sharing a lifetime of wisdom won by mostly hard experience (few of De Palma’s films got the support and attention they deserved at the time of their release – some, like ‘Scarface’ only became iconic years later). And he also talks with a touching wistfulness about those films he is truly proud of that never got the support – critical, commercial or both – that they deserved.

Overall you end up with a real sense of what it’s like to be tremendously talented, protean, rule-breaking film-maker over 50 years – the ridiculous highs and lows, the multiple struggles, hard times and occasional triumphs of a high-profile artistic life in the weirdness that is the American film scene.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Documentary, Biography
Director Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow
Writer N/A
Actors Brian De Palma, Mark Hamill, Amy Irving
Country United States
Awards 1 win & 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix N/A
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Laboratory Boxmotion, New York (NY), USA (digital intermediate)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process Digital (HD)
Printed Film Format DCP