The Fresh Films: Directors: Brian De Palma

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Brian De Palma

FULL NAME	Brian Russell De Palma
BORN	11 September 1940, Newark, New Jersey, USA
ASSOCIATION	Director, screenwriter, producer, editor
NATIONALITY	American
REVIEWED ENTRIES	11
MAX. RATING
MIN. RATING
AVERAGE RATING	3.50

FILMOGRAPHY (ONLY REVIEWED ENTRIES)

YEAR	TITLE	ASSOCIATION	FILM RATING
1976	Carrie	Director
1980	Dressed to Kill	Director/Writer	½
1981	Blow Out	Director/Writer	½
1983	Scarface	Director
1987	The Untouchables	Director	½
1992	Raising Cain	Director/Writer
1993	Carlito's Way	Director
1996	Mission: Impossible	Director	½
1998	Snake Eyes	Director/Producer	½
2000	Mission to Mars	Director
2006	The Black Dahlia	Director

BIO

Brian De Palma is one of the most distinguished and distinctive filmmakers who made a name for themselves during the New Hollywood era, along with Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Schrader and William Friedkin, even if De Palma certainly isn't one of the most decorated among them, having never been nominated for either an Academy Award, a Golden Globe or a Cannes Award. Despite of this, De Palma has a special place in the hearts of cinephiles, not least for his ability to fuse his characteristic visual signature in with several genres and themes. He is perhaps most renowned for utilizing and bringing horror tropes to serious mainstream cinema, which he did successfully in several of his earlier triumphs, such as Carrie, Dressed to Kill and Blow Out. In the new millennium, De Palma's movies have mostly been box office bombs and lambasted by the critics, starting with 2002's Femme Fatale.