brian de palma

Split/Screen: The Cinema of Brian De Palma

“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 […]

DE PALMA Review

by shael stolberg “Your being critizied against the fashion of the day and when the fashion changes everybody forgets about that” “Being a director is being a watcher. We have a lot of egos in the room and you have to watch how they interact with each other” ” I did grow up in an […]

Hot Docs 16 – DE PALMA

Screenings – Monday, May 2nd @ 6:15pm Tuesday, May 3rd @ 10am, Friday, May 6th @ 9:30pm One of the most talented, influential and iconoclastic filmmakers of all time, Brian De Palma started his career in the 1960s. It has included such acclaimed and diverse films as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Scarface, The […]

PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE @ The Royal

http://www.theroyal.to/films/neon-dreams-cinema-club-phantom-paradise/ “He sold his soul for rock-n-roll,” read the tagline for Brian De Palma’s satirical Phantom of the Opera for the ’70s rock scene. After hearing Winslow Leach (William Finley) perform a song from his Faust rock opera, Phil Spector-ish impresario Swan (Paul Williams) decides that Winslow’s opera would be the perfect debut attraction for […]

Locarno 15 – THE UNTOUCHABLES – Histoire(s) du Cinema

Festival Screening – August 6, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at La Sala Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team. Director – Brian De Palma –IMDB Please visit Locarno Film Festival to see the 2015 Program.

Vilmos Zsigmond on Working w/ Steven Spielberg

Vilmos Zsigmond on Working w/ Steven Spielberg

Audio clip of FILMbutton interview by Shael Stolberg w/ Academy Award Winning D.O.P. Vilmos Zsigmond on Aug 5, 2014 who was in Toronto in August 2014 for a Masterclass at TIFF Bell Lightbox as well as Robert Altman Retrospective.

Vilmos Zsigmond On Working w/ Michael Cimino

Vilmos Zsigmond On Working w/ Michael Cimino

Audio clip of FILMbutton interview by Shael Stolberg w/ Academy Award Winning D.O.P. Vilmos Zsigmond on August 5, 2014 who was in Toronto in August 2014 for a Masterclass at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

Vilmos Zsigmond on Working w/ John Cassavetes

Vilmos Zsigmond on Working w/ John Cassavetes

Audio clip of FILMbutton interview by Shael Stolberg w/ Academy Award Winning D.O.P. Vilmos Zsigmond on August 5, 2014 who was in Toronto in August 2014 for a Masterclass at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

Vilmos Zsigmond On Working w/ Sean Penn

Vilmos Zsigmond On Working w/ Sean Penn

Audio clip from the FILMbutton interview by Shael Stolberg of Academy Award Winning D.O.P. Vilmos Zsigmond about his career & working with Sean Penn that took place on Aug 5, 2014.