now is time for the Brian De Palma's best film

Dressed to Kill, it's the archetypal De Palma. for me anyway.

the thing i love about de palma is that even with his worst films (actually come to think of it, probably especially with his worst ones), is the odd feeling of going insane watching them. using all these tropes and ripoffs of scenes from other movies and mashing them together in a slightly off-kilter way, it's like you're watching a re-enactment of a remake of a parody of another movie. it's really weird.

Bump, I don't want this to end like the Kiarostami poll.

between Carrie and Scarface for me. Carrie is probably the better movie, but Scarface is teh roflz

I'm not voting because I really dislike 6 of the 7 I've seen (scarface, untouchables, raising cain, carlito's way, snake eyes, mission impossible/Sisters). But I'm making a concerted effort to get over my hang-ups (about theft, film school, other dead horses) and maybe enjoy one of his homages.

I put obsession, dressed to kill, carrie, blow out, and femme fatale in my netflix que last week, not even aware of this poll.

Phantom of the Paradise would be pretty great if the music was better. the only instance I can think of where the little guy's film music instinct failed him (Muppet Movie and Bugsy Malone being totally awesome)

I haven't seen enough of his movies to vote but Scarface better be below Carlito's Way on everyone's list.

Most overrated movie ever.

i voted body double - i was also tempted by carlitos way which is only loved by me and french magazines

but daaaaamn depalma is a motherfucker for sure - i love so many of these movies

I hate the construction of Carlito's Way

you know, show the main character's death and tell the story in flashback - this storytelling conceit always annoys me

didn't like Sunset Boulevard then?

i voted body double - i was also tempted by carlitos way which is only loved by me and french magazines

no way man, I love that movie.

oh, Wilder makes up for it with the rest of the film

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...and bo jackson overdrive

and the real Bo Jackson.

hmm, i'd be interested to see how 'the most overrated movie ever' does on this poll. third at best.

hate this guy but 'carlito's way'. prefer 'the untouchables' to the hitchcock rips thx.

I voted Scarface because fuck all the hataz, basically.

am not gonna see Casualties in time, so it's Femme Fatale, which renders all his previous thrillers superfluous.

I'll say this: he's better than Dario Argento.

i've used a camcorder once at a wedding, a coupla years back. i got most of the people in shot, although the lighting was poor.

moral of the story- I'm better than dario argento

Carlito's Way is one of Ally's favorite movies of all time - mine too.

Carrie.

eh ok maybe i was wrong - i seem to remember in another depalma thread everyone hated it

hate this guy
-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, January 4, 2008 11:28 AM

This I knew.

Dressed to Kill ftw

But Blow Out is surprisingly watchable. Great ending.

carlito's way is boring except for most scenes with sean penn. i'll go with 'femme fatale'.

Voted for Sisters. Pretty much been all downhill since though I tend to favor his unabashed exploitation trash more. (I like Black Dahlia more than Casualties Of War or The Untouchables)

we need a thread for Best De Palma Wenches.

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the bad guy has spoken

haha - I like how with these polls no matter how much whining there is from posters about the "no brainer"/most obvious winner, the obvious choices still win

eh scarface is better than a bunch that got votes

surprised untouchables got shut out

Almost all the movies that got zero votes basically deserved to. Even Greetings is done better with Hi, Mom!

I probably should've hedged my best and voted Dressed to Kill.

I saw Obsession at the Castro in SF last year (after seeing it on TV in my yute), and it's way better than films that got votes.

Wedding Party should have gotten the Bonfire votes and Untouchables should have gotten 4 of the 7 Scarface votes. Then it'd be cool.

and if the Fury and Blow Out got some of Body Double and Carlito's Way's votes.

yeah, if only we all had second votes to invalidate the first votes of everyone else.

or just do it by TELEPATHY!

Obession is too dour. Even Femme Fatale manages to transgress its allegedly lurid De Palma milieu without resorting to Paul Schrader b.s.

haha, IN A WORLD where BS plagues us... [controversial deletion re The Fury ]

much appreciated

70yo today.

Mission: Impossible is really underrated. Femme Fatale didn't get enough love here. Surprised no Untouchables, if only because you'd assume somebody would have just wandered into the thread.

Carrie >>>> Scarface

the ceiling-hanging scene in M:I was stolen from jules dassin's topkapi

finale stolen from The Great Train Robbery iirc

yeah not exactly the wittiest zing tbh

no, just say it's shit

Proud hater of Scarface for 36 years. (I can never get past Pacino's hamminess...visually, I guess it has its moments.)

i feel like the gonzo/ham aspect of Scarface is an essential part of it's appeal tbh.

not my favorite BDP, but it has its pleasures for sure.

Sisters has my favorite ending of any DePalma movie.

DePalma is generally thought of as one of the more visual directors ever, with famous extended sequences in all most highly regarded films, but for me, it's performances and script that set apart my favourite films of his.

Another Sisters lover here

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Blow Out shows up on a marquee in Joker.

I was worried that Carrie wouldn’t hold up but it does

still really moved by the story and by Sissy Spacek’s performance

My no. 2 horror movie of all time

Obsession was a really pleasant surprise for me.

The Fury is one of the De Palma films I hadn’t seen before now. It is great too

Yes, I loved that too.

as with Carrie there’s a lot to the story and the scenes all seem so vivid

Also enjoyed Raising Cain a whole lot. But I think Body Double and Obsession are my absoloute favorites.

Didn't realize he had a film out earlier this year.

One of his next projects is described as "a horror film set in Hollywood and featuring a predatory movie mogul."
Sounds like a risky move.

saw Scarface for the first time, it is very flamboyant. Pacino’s performance is histrionic but is kind of mesmerizing. I started feeling fatigued by it after the 2 hour mark though

What they don’t tell you about Scarface is that Pacino’s character is actually a cyborg

I like that Blow Out combines the obsession and paranoia of The Conversation and Blow Up with the story, style, set pieces of Hitchcock

haven't been able to see Dressed to Kill or Body Double yet. I didn't really like Wise Guys

Body Double is possibly my favorite, such an insane film

Get to Know Your Rabbit (1971)

This caught my attention. Anyone seen it?

I’ve seen Body Double at least three times in the past several years but it still exists in my mind as something I saw in between fever dreams as a kid on HBO in the middle of the night in the 80s.

I also missed Obsession

I never saw Body Double as a kid, but it absolutely exists in that kind of hallucinatory weirdness.

Get to Know Your Rabbit is an interesting but unfunny experimental comedy

Scarface has become weirdly underrated. It's a ridiculous movie in many ways, but has just as many brilliant elements as well.

Dressed to Kill was really good as a thriller. I liked Angie Dickinson in it, also the way it both indulges in and criticizes viewers’ voyeurist fantasies. I thought the elevator scene, the subway scene, and the shower dream sequence at the end in particular were memorable. But its stereotypically negative view of a transgender woman as a killer was very retrograde

I liked that the ending mirrored the beginning

really liked Casualties of War, I think more than his previous film The Untouchables