Celebrities list / Brian De Palma

Swing Vote, 2008 , (Joshua Michael Stern) There are some elegant revelations in Joshua Michael Stern's "Swing Vote," twinkles of acumen sparkling in the murkiness of the film’s indecision. The viewer is required to struggle through the entire picture to notice them blinking at her as she slogs her way to the end. Kevin Costner plays a slob, a fully behind-in-his-dues member of the ...

Oliver Stone, Orson Welles, Sam Peckinpah, David Lean, Brian De Palma, John Huston. All of them catchy names.

01 ~ The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973) 02 ~ The Conformist (Il conformista) (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) 03 ~ The Reckless Moment (Max Ophüls, 1949) 04 ~ Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968) 05 ~ To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944) 06 ~ This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle, 1942) 07 ~ A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)...

i think brian de palma gets a little too much praise. the only film of his, that i love, is the untouchables. and yes, i know he did scarface, but i don't love scarface. i like it, don't love it. so my pick for too much praise is de palma. http://aboutthat.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/psych o1.jpg

Deeply obnoxious, big-nosed, monumentally arrogant, name-dropping, washed-up, philanderer. Fond of borderline-jailbait on the casting couch, lousy impersonations of his betters, and ruining great TV shows with his odious presence. Way back in the '70s when his name still meant something he was rightly hated by his contemporaries. I missed the 70s part, my bad. But I'm actually going to ...

The person with the most correct answers will win the final VETO! What member of the Monkees, a holdout for nearly three decades, rejoined the other geezers for a 1996 album? What Francis Ford Coppola movie sees Marlon Brando blather: "Horror has a face, and you must make a friend of horror"? What David Lynch movie did a few filmgoers attend expecting to see Bobby Vinton's life story? What ...

2001: A Space Odyssey [Stanley Kubrick] - 7/10 Alien [Ridley Scott] - 8/10 Aliens [James Cameron] - 8/10 Amadeus [Milos Forman] - 4/10 Casino [Martin Scorsese] - 8/10 Clockwork Orange, A [Stanley Kubrick] - 7/10 Conversation, The [Francis Ford Coppola] - Will be watching this tonight Departed, The [Martin Scorsese] - 4/10 Dog Day Afternoon [Sidney Lumet] - 7/10 Dr. Strangelove or: How I ...

2007 he published this list 1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone) 2. Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks) 3. Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma) 4. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese) 5. His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks) 6. 5 Fingers of Death / King Boxer (1972, Chang-hwa Jeong) 7. Pandora's Box (1929, Georg Wilhelm Pabst) 8. Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma) 9. ...

1. Psycho - (1960, Alfred Hitchcock) 10/10 3. Night of the Living Dead - (1968, George A. Romero) 10/10 5. Jaws - (1975, Steven Spielberg) 10/10 6. The Exorcist - (William Friedkin, 1973) 10/10 9. Halloween - (1978, John Carpenter) 10/10 11. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - (Tobe Hooper, 1974) 10/10 13. Alien - (Ridley Scott, 1979) 10/10 14. The Shining - (Stanley Kubrick...