Dionysus in '69 (Brian De Palma, 1970)

I never got around to this in my De Palma retrospective, so when Spectrum Culture decided to do one of its own, I knew I had to cover it. Th...

Brian De Palma: Redacted

The mainstream view of Brian De Palma's 2000s output is anything but flattering, with all four of his films made in the new millennium b...

Brian De Palma: The Black Dahlia

Building off the moral investigation of film noir that characterized his Femme Fatale , Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia  is a grim, s...

Brian De Palma: Femme Fatale

After the reception of Mission to Mars  took some of the wind out of De Palma's sails, Femme Fatale  represented a more modestly scaled ...

Brian De Palma: Dressed to Kill

After using his student collaboration Home Movies to grab for that early sense of anarchic satire, Brian De Palma was all set to adapt Crui...

Brian De Palma: Home Movies

Considering the often-questionable acting prowess seen on the screen in Brian De Palma's movies, to say nothing of the borderline anarch...

Brian De Palma: The Fury

Though it never reaches the heights of De Palma's previous two features, The Fury combines the best aspects of both. It shares Obsessio...

Brian De Palma: Carrie

Stories about young men seeking to enter "adulthood" are a dime a dozen, but the field of girls-becoming-women movies is notably l...

Brian De Palma: Obsession

At the time of its release, Obsession was by some degree the most refined of Brian De Palma's films, an ironic twist given how it is pe...

Brian De Palma: Phantom of the Paradise

Phantom of the Paradise , Brian De Palma's campy rock musical, skewers so many aspects of rock 'n roll that, were it not for the dir...