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Brian De Palma è stato spesso considerato, sia dalla critica e dal pubblico (specie se americani), poco più di un mestierante del cinema. E' vero che da Mission to Mars (compreso) in poi la qualità dei suoi lavori è calata paurosamente (anche se non ho visto Femme Fatale), ma troppi suoi film precedenti sono da storia del cinema, per poterlo considerare un regista qualunque.
De Palma, Brian
Nome di battesimo: De Palma, Brian Russell
Data di nascita: 11 September 1940
Altezza: 5' 11" (1.80 m)
Coniuge: Darnell Gregorio-De Palma::(11 October 1995 - 18 April 1997) (divorced) 1 child, Gale Anne Hurd::(20 July 1991 - ?) (divorced) 1 child, Nancy Allen::(12 January 1979 - 1983) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori:
- The Black Dahlia (2006) .... [regista]
- The Untouchables: Capone Rising (2006) .... [regista]
- Toyer (2005) .... (screenplay) [scrittore]
- The Making of 'Carlito's Way' (2003) (V) .... (special thanks) [misc]
- Femme Fatale (2002) .... (written by) [scrittore]
- Bruce Springsteen: The Complete Video Anthology 1978-2000 (2001) (V) .... (video "Dancing in the Dark") [regista]
- Mission to Mars (2000) .... [regista]
- Stir of Echoes (1999) .... (special thanks) [misc]
- Snake Eyes (1998) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Mr. Jealousy (1997) .... (special thanks) (as Brian DePalma) [misc]
Biografia:
Brian De Palma is the son of a surgeon. He studied physics but at the same time felt his dedication for the movies and made some short films. After seven independent productions he had his first success with Sisters (1973) and his voyeuristic style. Restlessly he worked on big projects with the script writers Paul Schrader, John Farris and 'Oliver Stone' . He also filmed a novel of Stephen King: Carrie (1976). Another important film was The Untouchables (1987) with a script by David Mamet adapted from the TV series.
Trivia random: Uncle of actor Cameron De Palma
Citazione random: (On why he would not add rap songs to the soundtrack to "Scarface") "They said it would help promotion, presenting the film in a different way, but Giorgio's music was true to the period, I argued -- and no one changes the scores on movies by Marty Scorsese, John Ford, David Lean. If this is the `masterpiece' you say, leave it alone. I fought them tooth and nail and was the odd man out, not an unusual place for me. I have final cut, so that stopped them dead."
Ed Wood (1994)
Regista: Tim Burton
Scrittore: Rudolph Grey, Scott Alexander
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Valutazione: 8.0/10 (26452 voti) [#182 nella top250]
Durata: 127 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Johnny Depp .... Ed Wood
- Martin Landau .... Bela Lugosi
- Sarah Jessica Parker .... Dolores Fuller
- Patricia Arquette .... Kathy O'Hara
- Jeffrey Jones .... Criswell
- G.D. Spradlin .... Reverend Lemon
- Vincent D'Onofrio .... Orson Welles
- Bill Murray .... Bunny Breckinridge
- Mike Starr .... Georgie Weiss
- Max Casella .... Paul Marco
Trama:
The life of Edward D. Wood,Jr, hailed as the worst director (of 'Plan 9 From Outer Space', 'Glen or Glenda?' and 'Bride of the Monster') of all time.
Trivia random: Johnny Depp has said that his characterization of Edward D. Wood Jr. was a mixture of "the blind optimism of Ronald Reagan, the enthusiasm of the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Casey Kasem."
Body Double (1984)
Omicidio a luci rosse
Regista: Brian De Palma
Scrittore: Brian De Palma, Robert J. Avrech
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Valutazione: 6.4/10 (3911 voti)
Durata: 114 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Craig Wasson .... Jake Scully
- Melanie Griffith .... Holly
- Gregg Henry .... Sam
- Deborah Shelton .... Gloria
- Guy Boyd .... Jim McLean
- Dennis Franz .... Rubin
- David Haskell .... Drama teacher
- Rebecca Stanley .... Kimberly
- Al Israel .... Corso
- Douglas Warhit .... Video salesman
Trama:
Jake comes home to find his girlfriend with another man and has to find a new place. In between his acting workshops and his job in a vampire B-movie, he scans the paper looking for anything. He happens to meet a fellow actor who needs a house sitter. Both are pleased with the arrangement that will have Jake staying in the house and for a sweetener, Frank shows him his 'favorite neighbor', a well built woman who strips with her window open each night. Jake becomes obsessed with meeting her and is able to help recover her purse from a thief, but shows his own phobia, he is incapacitated by claustrophobia when the thief runs through a tunnel. When Jake witnesses a murder, he finds out that the police love to pin crimes on peeping Toms. Jake discovers that here are just too many coincidences but must hunt them down himself without the police.
Trivia random: 'Brian de Palma' originally planned for this to be the first Hollywood film to boast unsimulated sex scenes. The studio thought differently.
Mission to Mars (2000)
Mission to Mars - alle origini della vita ai confini dell'ignoto
Regista: Brian De Palma
Scrittore: Lowell Cannon, Jim Thomas
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Adventure
Valutazione: 4.9/10 (16321 voti)
Durata: 114 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Gary Sinise .... Jim McConnell
- Tim Robbins .... Woodrow 'Woody' Blake
- Don Cheadle .... Luke Graham
- Connie Nielsen .... Terri Fisher
- Jerry O'Connell .... Phil Ohlmyer
- Peter Outerbridge .... Sergei Kirov
- Kavan Smith .... Nicholas Willis
- Jill Teed .... Reneé Coté
- Elise Neal .... Debra Graham
- Kim Delaney .... Maggie McConnell
Trama:
When a mysterious storm kills all but one crew member of the first manned mission to mars, a rescue mission is launched. Once on the red planet, the crew finds the sole survivor of the first mission who informs them that this was no ordinary storm. It was meant to protect something. But what?
Trivia random: Only a few months after the release of this movie, NASA received new images from Mars, which have a much higher resolution than previous images. The new images of the "human face" on the Martian surface show that this geological feature actually bears little resemblance to a human face, thus invalidating the main plot point of the film.
Femme Fatale (2002)
Regista: Brian De Palma
Scrittore: Brian De Palma
Genere: Thriller, Crime, Fantasy
Valutazione: 6.4/10 (6933 voti)
Durata: 114 min
Paese: France
Lingua: English, French
Cast:
- Rebecca Romijn .... Laure Ash/Lily (as Rebecca Romijn-Stamos)
- Antonio Banderas .... Nicolas Bardo
- Peter Coyote .... Bruce Watts
- Eriq Ebouaney .... Black Tie
- Edouard Montoute .... Racine
- Rie Rasmussen .... Veronica
- Thierry Frémont .... Serra (as Thierry Fremont)
- Gregg Henry .... Leonard Shiff
- Fiona Curzon .... Stanfield Phillips
- Daniel Milgram .... Pierre/Bartender
Trama:
International con artist/thief Laure Ash helps pull off a diamond robbery in Cannes during the annual film festival. She double-crosses her partners-in-crime and makes off with the diamonds to Paris where she accidently assumes the identy of a distraught woman who commits suicide and then leaves the country. Seven years later, Laure (now called Lily Watts) re-surfaces as the wife of the new American ambassador to France where a certain Nicolas Barto, a Spanish photographer, takes her picture which sets the stage for a motion of events as the evil Laure resorts to low, underhanded means to protect her former identity by emotionally and financially destroying Nicolas while evading her former partners-in-crime still looking for her to reclaim the stolen diamonds.
Trivia random: Uma Thurman was originally cast as Laure Ash, but cancelled when she became pregnant.
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