The documentary is about writer and director Brian De Palma, one of the most talented, influential, and iconoclastic filmmakers of all time. It takes us through his professional life in his own words of a career that would redefine film horror and suspense.
23 September 1949, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
31 May 1960, St. Clair Shores, Michigan, USA
9 January 1973, Austin, Texas, USA
10 September 1953, Palo Alto, California, USA
17 March 1951, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
February 9, 1960 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
17 June 1951, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
2 February 1937, New York City, New York, USA
15 March 1954, Ontario, Oregon, USA
27 September 1933, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
11 September 1940, Newark, New Jersey, USA
20 November 1939, New York City, New York, USA
4 December 1969, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
25 December 1949, Quitman, Texas, USA
26 December 1927, New York City, New York, USA
4 September 1944, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 October 1986, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
25 October 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 September 1940, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
14 September 1973, Queens, New York, USA
11 January 1942, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
30 April 1944, New York City, New York, USA
7 January 1920, Naples, Campania, Italy
25 September 1951, Oakland, California, USA
18 December 1946, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
September 22, 1895 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
February 22, 2017
You'll dig this movie a ton, because it's basically a master filmmaker taking a stroll down memory lane and exploring what makes his work stand out.
June 17, 2016
De Palma is a deceptively simple documentary film: Director Brian De Palma sits in front of a fireplace for nearly two hours and talks about his life and career. If you love movies, it's time well spent.
June 17, 2016
A trip through his wild and hugely influential filmography is mandatory for any film fan, and that's just what directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow offer in their new documentary.
June 23, 2016
Paltrow and Baumbach simply walk De Palma through his filmography and collect his best stories. But this systematic approach has a nice leveling effect in that his more obscure, offbeat projects get as much attention as his signature films.
June 17, 2016
Immersive and illuminating ...
December 27, 2016
Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow are the co-directors of De Palma, a scrumptious documentary about the creator of Carrie and Scarface.
December 22, 2016
By the end, regardless of how one feels about any number of his pictures, there is no question that he was a man who made movies exactly the way he intended.
December 27, 2016
[His] candid commentary reveals him to be a cultivated man with a gut-bucket sensibility trying to make mass-market commercial hits but who rarely finds the right combination of style and substance. At least we now know why he did what he did.
February 01, 2017
You'll learn more about the art of filmmaking in this documentary than from any course in the UCLA or NYU film school.
June 23, 2016
De Palma remains a focused and productive filmmaker at 75, with several productions in the development pipeline. "De Palma" makes one hope that he'll keep up the pace for years to come.
May 09, 2017
A serious examination of De Palma as an auteur, coming through one of the most fevered epochs of Hollywood history and surviving to tell the tale.
