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- 'Scarface' director Brian De Palma once discussed his love for Alfred Hitchcock, whom he has paid homage to various times throughout his career.
Aug 13, 2022 · Alfred Hitchcock has inspired many directors, but no more than Brian De Palma, who has been keen to stress how much he is influenced by the 'Psycho' auteur.
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Jump to 1984, and you will find yourself glancing at Brian de Palma's Body Double. In it a woman gets killed right after she masturbates. The killer uses an electric drill to impale her. Talk about immoral. And this scene isn't the only controversial one in the film, or in any other by De Palma. The director had clashes with censors but nothing see...
We won't make a list of every single thing de Palma took from Hitchcock and somehow adapted into one of his movies. From his earliest films, he was adamant about including them, but in some cases he went all the way in creating a variation of Hitchcock's most important films. The similarities between Psycho and Dressed to Kill are very obvious. Ver...
When De Palma got questioned about Hitchcock, he turned conversations into exchanges about what made the British director so good from a technical perspective. He knew and still knows who he is in that discussion, and as expected, De Palma implies Hitchcock's world was so vast you could do anything by learning from his filmmaking. As he told AP New...
Hitchcock's films aren't the same today as they were back in the day. Audiences evolved, and modern audiences didn't see things the same way. Not to say they needed a new Hitchcock (though by the '70s, the former master of suspense had lost some respect), but De Palma proudly stepped up and created an empty seat and filled it at the same time with ...
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Jun 3, 2023 · Body Double, an erotic thriller by Brian De Palma, is largely a homage to Hitchcock’s filmography, with Rear Window being its most comparable work. In it, Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) is an...
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Jul 1, 2016 · NPR's Robert Siegel uses a new documentary about film director Brian De Palma to talk to him about his career highs and lows, techniques, and how deeply he has been influenced by Alfred...
Nov 21, 2022 · As early as August 1980, when New York Magazine spoke with De Palma about "Dressed To Kill" — widely considered an homage to Hitchcock's "Psycho" — the director was pushing back on the comparison.
Jun 1, 2024 · Brian De Palma's homage to Alfred Hitchcock, Body Double, challenged cinematic conventions and became a cult classic.
Oct 10, 2018 · The 1973 slasher film “Sisters,” digitally restored and playing at the Quad Cinema, as well as streaming on services like FilmStruck, was Brian De Palma’s first homage to Alfred Hitchcock....
