De Palmais a 2015 American documentary film directed by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow about the director and screenwriter Brian De Palma. The documentary features clips from his films starring various frequent collaborators like Al Pacino, John Lithgow, Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, John Travolta and various others.

Release

It had its world premiere at the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival, where it screened out of competition.

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• 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.
• SoundtracksDe Palma (Main Title Theme)Written by Nathan JohnsonCourtesy of Choplogic MusicUnder license from Nathan Johnson

Featured review

• 19691h 32mNot Rated4.7 (1.6K)DirectorBrian De PalmaWilford LeachCynthia MunroeStarsValda SetterfieldRaymond McNallyJohn BraswellSee Robert DeNiro in his first starring role in Brian DePalma’s wildly comic first feature The Wedding Party!
• 19681h 20m5.4 (1.1K)DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsAndra AkersWilliam FinleyMargo NortonNaive young Karen wants to help her struggling amateur-filmmaker boyfriend Christopher raise enough money so he can divorce his wife. Meanwhile, jolly psycho prankster Otto stalks the building where Christopher is shooting a low-grade adult movie in order to keep himself afloat.
• 19681h 28mR5.7 (4K)DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsJonathan WardenRobert De NiroGerrit GrahamThree friends in New York City discuss how to dodge the draft and Vietnam, JFK’s assassination, voyeurism, computer dating, and everything else.
• 19701h 25mX5.1 (430)DirectorBrian De PalmaRobert FioreBruce Joel RubinStarsRemi BarclaySamuel BlazerJason BosseauFilmed stageplay based on the ancient greek play The Bacchae written by Euripides. This play is performed by members of The Performance Group, an NYC experimental theater group who has made their own personal adaptation of this ancient text. Filmed by Brian DePalma.
• 19701h 27mR6.1 (5.9K)DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsRobert De NiroAllen GarfieldLara ParkerA Vietnam vet moves into an apartment and peers through other people’s windows across the street, meets one of the women, and discovers Black theater.
• 19721h 31mR5.2 (1K)DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsTom SmothersJohn AstinKatharine RossA young business executive hates the direction his life is taking, and decides to make some changes. He becomes a struggling (but happy) tap-dancing magician. His old boss is financially ruined, but finds a way to bounce back by commercialising his career change.
• 19721h 33mR6.9 (21K)70MetascoreDirectorBrian De PalmaStarsMargot KidderJennifer SaltCharles DurningA small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
• 19741h 31mPG7.3 (23K)67MetascoreDirectorBrian De PalmaStarsPaul WilliamsWilliam FinleyJessica HarperA disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.
• 19761h 38mPG6.7 (12K)59MetascoreDirectorBrian De PalmaStarsCliff RobertsonGeneviève BujoldJohn LithgowA wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.
• 19761h 38mR7.4 (208K)86MetascoreDirectorBrian De PalmaStarsSissy SpacekPiper LaurieAmy IrvingCarrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
• 19781h 58mR6.3 (17K)64MetascoreDirectorBrian De PalmaStarsKirk DouglasJohn CassavetesCarrie SnodgressA former CIA agent uses the talents of a young psychic to help retrieve his telekinetic son from a shadowy secret government agency.
• 19791h 30mPG5.0 (1K)DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsNancy AllenMary DavenportKirk DouglasKeith Gordon is a creative young man who films the oddball doings of his family and peers. “The Maestro” appears frequently to give him pointers on his techniques. It’s almost a film about a young man making the film.
• 19801h 44mR7.1 (49K)74MetascoreDirectorBrian De PalmaStarsMichael CaineAngie DickinsonNancy AllenA mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist’s patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.
• 19811h 48mR7.4 (64K)86MetascoreDirectorBrian De PalmaStarsJohn TravoltaNancy AllenJohn LithgowA movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.
• 19832h 50mR8.3 (923K)65MetascoreDirectorBrian De PalmaStarsAl PacinoMichelle PfeifferSteven BauerIn 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
• 19841h 54mR6.8 (39K)69MetascoreDirectorBrian De PalmaStarsCraig WassonMelanie GriffithGregg HenryA young actor’s obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences.
• 19861h 40mR5.6 (6.4K)62MetascoreDirectorBrian De PalmaStarsDanny DeVitoJoe PiscopoHarvey KeitelHarry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose two hundred fifty thousand dollars, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City, and comedy follows.
• 19871h 59mR7.8 (332K)79MetascoreDirectorBrian De PalmaStarsKevin CostnerSean ConneryRobert De NiroDuring Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.
• 19891h 53mR7.1 (48K)75MetascoreDirectorBrian De PalmaStarsMichael J. FoxSean PennDon HarveyDuring the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
• 19902h 5mR5.6 (27K)27MetascoreDirectorBrian De PalmaStarsTom HanksBruce WillisMelanie GriffithAfter his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight and attracts the interest of a down-and-out reporter.
• 19921h 32mR6.1 (18K)42MetascoreDirectorBrian De PalmaStarsJohn LithgowLolita DavidovichSteven BauerThe oncologist wife of a prominent child psychologist suspects her husband has an unhealthy scientific obsession with their child, unaware of what – or who – is really going on inside his head.
• 19932h 24mR7.9 (234K)66MetascoreDirectorBrian De PalmaStarsAl PacinoSean PennPenelope Ann MillerA Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.
• 19961h 50mPG-137.2 (473K)59MetascoreDirectorBrian De PalmaStarsTom CruiseJon VoightEmmanuelle BéartAn American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization.
• 19981h 38mR6.1 (87K)52MetascoreDirectorBrian De PalmaStarsNicolas CageGary SiniseJohn HeardCorrupt Atlantic City police officer Rick Santoro and Navy Commander Kevin Dunn join forces to investigate both the assassination of Secretary of Defense Charles Kirkland and the disappearance of a beautiful stranger.
• 20001h 54mPG5.7 (77K)34MetascoreDirectorBrian De PalmaStarsTim RobbinsGary SiniseDon CheadleWhen the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.

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If you ever want to instigate an massive argument among cineastes, simply mention the name “Brian De Palma” and watch the sparks fly. In a career spanning nearly a half-century, De Palma has been gleefully provoking audiences with outrageous symphonies of sex, violence and twisted humor that have led observers to either celebrate him as a master of suspense with one of the most distinctive stylistic touches of any filmmaker working today or dismiss him as a derivative hack who stole everything he knows from the works of Alfred Hitchcock, has an attitude towards women that is borderline misogynistic and could not tell a coherent story to save his life.

24. Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)A challenging film for De Palma, he had to prove his status as a skilled up-and-coming filmmaker to both leads Tom Smothers and the legendary Orson Welles in this seldom seen early effort that often feels like a Bananas-era Woody Allen pratfall comedy with the drollery of Monty Python stirred into the mix. And while much of Get to Know Your Rabbit doesn’t work all that well, it’s a eccentric oddity all the same.