De Palma — Trailer

added: Wed, Apr 20th '16

Filmmakers Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha) and Jake Paltrow (Young Ones) recently sat down with 75-year-old director Brian De Palma for a conversation about his 50-plus years in the film business. And luckily for us, cameras were rolling.

Check out the trailer for "De Palma," the new retrospective documentary on the legendary director's long and influential career, in which he speaks freely and candidly about the movies he's directed.

For the uninitiated, De Palma was a part of the new wave of Hollywood directors in the '60s and '70s, which included Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, and Steven Spielberg. In fact, he helped Lucas on the casting process for "Star Wars," in which he directed several of the actors for their screen tests.

Though widely recognized for his Hitchcock-inspired thrillers, such as "Dressed to Kill," "Carrie," and "Blow Out," arguably De Palma's biggest achievement is his 1983 gangster masterpiece "Scarface" with Al Pacino (although, originally, it came under fire for its graphic violence and controversial subject matter). De Palma would later reunite with Pacino a decade later for another gangster classic, "Carlito's Way."

Critic-wise, De Palma's best-reviewed film has to be the Eliot Ness-versus-Al Capone thriller "The Untouchables," while his biggest box-office hit was the first "Mission: Impossible" movie, which featured a unforgettable action scene where Tom Cruise is dangling from a ceiling on wires.

Directed by both Baumbach and Paltrow, "De Palma" will be released in select theaters on June 10th.

synopsis:
Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow's fleet and bountiful portrait covers the career of the number one iconoclast of American cinema, the man who gave us Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, and Carlito’s Way. Their film moves at the speed of De Palma's thought (and sometimes works in subtle, witty counterpoint) as he goes title by title, covering his life from science nerd to New Hollywood bad boy to grand old man, and describes his ever-shifting position in this thing we call the movie business. Deceptively simple, De Palma is finally many things at once. It is a film about the craft of filmmaking -- how it's practiced and how it can be so easily distorted and debased. It's an insightful and often hilarious tour through American moviemaking from the 1960s to the present, and a primer on how movies are made and unmade. And it's a surprising, lively, and unexpectedly moving portrait of a great, irascible, unapologetic, and uncompromising New York artist. (via filmlinc.org)

directed by Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow

release date June 10, 2016