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De Palma

American  
[duh pahl-muh] / də ˈpɑl mə /

noun

  1. Brian, born 1940, U.S. film director.


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But that De Palma version only uses certain specific aspects of the book.

From Los Angeles Times

These mob-like depictions occurred long before cult-favorite films like Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 “The Godfather” and Brian De Palma 1983’s “Scarface” became the prominent gangster storylines various male acts venerate in their music.

From Los Angeles Times

There were other filmmaking upstarts at the time—including Brian De Palma and Paul Schrader, both of whom spoke with Mr. Fischer—but these directors stay on the sidelines in this telling.

From The Wall Street Journal

Fans of the classic, artfully made thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock and Brian De Palma will find themselves gripped by the film from the start.

From Salon

Ever since its re-release in the early 1950s, “Battleship Potemkin” has been consistently rated among the greatest films ever made, and has influenced numerous creative artists, from the notorious Leni Riefenstahl in her propagandist documentaries to the painter Francis Bacon, who was inspired by the agonizing images of the Odessa Steps sequence, as was Brian De Palma in making the railroad-station scene in “The Untouchables.”

From The Wall Street Journal