Brian De Palma: Interviews

Brian De Palma: InterviewsBrian De Palma isn't your average Hollywood director. For years he reigned as the Master of the Macabre The man who massacred the class of '76 in Carrie and stalked Angie Dickinson in Dressed to Kill. By the mid 1980s De Palma found himself assaulting his audience and critics, daring them to watch a chainsaw enter a man's skull in Scarface and a power drill disembowel a defenseless woman in Body Double. What drove De Palma to such extremes? In the

Fisher Stevens

maybe Poe’s most famous work

You can put snacks on it

Tupac the man has long been obscured—his edges sanded down

and portraits of a multitude of music icons – Bruce Springsteen

Translating the experience of film: filmmakers

despite the risk involved

The very model of what a filmmaking study should be

and reception of Egoyan's fourth feature film

Like many icons who died tragically young

skips town

Through her memories of seeking solace in the film during her own grieving period