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“I’ve always been controversial. People hate me or love me.” — Brian De Palma
“Truth be told, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma.” — Quentin Tarantino
“De Palma constructs movies that have the surface of crowd-pleasing entertainment but the guts of high art, filled with bravura sequences that don’t so much pay off as let go.” — Noel Murray and Scott Tobias, avclub.com
“De Palma always implicates his viewers, forcing them to define their relationship with the film in front of them. A De Palma film always calls attention to the fact that what you’re watching is just that – a film – and reminds you that, whether or not you like what you’re seeing, the most important thing is how you engage with it.”
— Brad Deane, Senior Manager, Film Programmes, TIFF

One of the key auteurs to emerge from the New Hollywood of the 1960s and ‘70s, Brian De Palma has created an oeuvre that oscillates from low-budget independent films to Hollywood blockbusters, working almost exclusively within traditional Hollywood genres: horror and sci-fi, rock musical, gangster epic, war film, and the Hitchcockian psychological thriller. Coinciding with the release of Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow’s funny and ceaselessly entertaining documentary De Palma (opening on June 17 at TIFF Bell Lightbox), TIFF Cinematheque celebrates this remarkable filmmaker with a career-spanning retrospective. Running from June 18 to September 3 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

Split/Screen: The Cinema of Brian De Palma showcases 25 of his feature films which in include: Murder a la Mod (1968), Greetings (1968), Dionysus in ’69, Hi, Mom! (1970), Sisters (1973), Phantom of the Paradise (1974), Carrie (1976), Obsession (1976), The Fury (1978), Scarface (1983), Dressed to Kill (1980), Dressed to Kill (1980), Blow Out (1981), Body Double (1984), Wise Guys (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Casualties of War (1989), Raising Cain (1992), Carlito’s Way (1993), Mission: Impossible (1996), Snake Eyes (1998), Femme Fatale (2002), The Black Dahlia (2006), Mission to Mars (2000), Redacted (2007), Passion (2012).

Please visit Split/Screen: The Cinema of Brian De Palma for a schedule of the film screenings as well as an interesting essay on Brian De Palma by Brad Deane, Senior Manager, Film Programmes, TIFF .

To view our review of the new documentary De Palma opening at TIFF June 17th.

Banner Photos and Credits – (L-R) – Scarface – Courtesy of NBC Universal, Femme Fatale, Redacted – Carlito’s Way & Snake Eyes – Courtesy of Film Reference Library, Raising Cain – Courtesy of NBCUniversal, Passion – Courtesy of Film Reference Library

– Originally Posted June 13, 2016.