
Place of Birth:
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Date of Birth:
9/11/1940
Brian Russell De Palma is an American film director and writer. In a career spanning over forty years, he is probably best known for his suspense and crime thriller films. De Palma was a leading member of the New Hollywood generation of film directors. His direction often makes use of quotations from other films or cinematic styles, and bears the influence of filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard, and Michelangelo Antonioni. His work has been criticized for its violence and sexual content, but has also been championed by American critics such as Roger Ebert and Pauline Kael.

Acting 'Carrie'

Slashing 'Dressed to Kill'

Visualizing 'Carrie'

Ennio

The Making of 'Carlito's Way'

The Untouchables: Re-Inventing the Genre

The Untouchables: Production Stories

The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast

The Untouchables: The Classic

Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
Rotwang Must Go!

The Black Dahlia

Femme Fatale: Dream Within a Dream

Brian De Palma par Brian De Palma Leçon de cinéma

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

The 'Scarface' Phenomenon

De Palma

Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder

Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius

The Making of 'Scarface'

Movies Are My Life

'Obsession' Revisited

The Making of 'Dressed to Kill'

The Scorsese Machine

Spielberg

Brian De Palma : Les Années 60

Paradise Regained: Brian de Palma's 'Phantom of the Paradise'

Greetings

The Autopsy

Ennio Morricone

Godard Made in USA

The Making of 'Casualties of War'

Black Dahlia Confidential