Brian De Palma wins Best Director award at Venice with 'Redacted'

Breibart.com - AFP ^ | 9/8/07 | NS

[mthom]

Hes always been a hack. Most of his movies are either Hitchcock ripoffs or completely incoherent messes. Usually both actually. Case in point: Body Double. He had to have been on coke the entire production. His best movies, Im convinced, were accidents.

[SeaWolf]

Brian De Palma... typical liberal aristocrat.

[driftless2]

"Body Double"

A while back I purchased the BD dvd intending to watch it with my wife. I first saw the flick at the theater when it first came out twenty years ago remembering it to be a decent movie. We started watching the thing and after twenty minutes into it, my wife threw up her hands and made me stop it. She found the movie to be insipid and ridiculous. She never makes me stop movies, but she made me stop that one. And you know after seeing the movie for the second time, she was right...it's a very, very, bad movie. By the way she doesn't know Brian DePalma from a pop bottle.

[VOA]

DePalma also made another anti-American, anti-troop film in 1990,
"Casualites of War" with Sean Penn. What was the plot? US soliders
rape a Vietnamese woman, kill her and try to cover it up.

Yes, it was an anti-American, anti-US military film.
But buried within it was a decent morality tale with tough questions:
"What do you do when a colleague saves your life, then turns out
to be a monster?
And everyone in the small group is going along with the monster?"
I think Michael J. Fox probably turned in his personal best
acting in that film, as the guy caught in the crucible.

But as for DePalma...it's amazing he's been able to keep getting
any projects green-lighted.
(Well, except for his current blame-America-first award winner)