Article: The first casualty here is taste; Under fire: U.S. troops in Iraq.

Article: De Palma makes violent, angry foray into Iraq war in thoughtful 'Redacted'
Oakland Tribune;  November 16, 2007 ;     494 words ...LEAVE IT TO Brian De Palma to go straight for...Iraq war movie, "Redacted." Using all the...Boetticher, no doubt De Palma idols. There's even...suggests it. But "Redacted" is very different...censorious intent. And to De Palma's chagrin, but with...Iraqi dead has been ...

Article: Brian De Palma Explains Himself
The Village Voice;  October 3, 2007 ;     700+ words ......images out of Iraq, De Palma set out to "show...he says, with Redacted (screening at the...is that?" With Redacted, De Palma hopes to remedy...published," says De Palma. "And I got them...photos have been redacted - black lines cover...

Article: Warring fictions ; Director Brian De Palma's controversial account of the Iraq war mixes real and staged footage to powerful effect
Evening Standard - London;  March 13, 2008 ;     640 words ...Redacted Cert 15, 90 mins AT ONE point in Brian De Palma's polarising semifiction...shocked or outraged at De Palma's audacity. To the...were themselves redacted. Some were replaced...sagely remarked that Redacted wasn't made to change...minds but to unburden De ...

Article: DE PALMA MAKES A VIOLENT, ANGRY, FORAY INTO IRAQ WAR IN 'REDACTED'.(LA.COM)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  November 16, 2007 ;     643 words ......Leave it to Brian De Palma to go straight...Iraq war movie, Redacted. Using all the...Boetticher, no doubt De Palma idols. There's...suggests it. But Redacted is a very different...Diaz star in Brian De Palma's Redacted, which centers...

Article: De Palma Goes Dark (Again).
The New York Observer (New York, NY);  November 13, 2007 ;     656 words ...REDACTED Running Time 90 minutes...and directed by Brian De Palma Starring Kel O'Neill...Mike Figueroa Brian De Palma's Redacted, from his own screenplay...and Ving Rhames. Mr. De Palma invokes the earlier film...director's statement on Redacted: Once again a ...

Article: TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL; Old theme in a new war; De Palma's 'Redacted' echoes his early 'Casualties of War'
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  September 12, 2007 ;     601 words ......film could be "Redacted," De Palma's update of his...one's funeral. "Redacted" was born last...company offered De Palma $5 million to make...emotional way." De Palma, who directed violent...the violence in "Redacted," including a beheading...

Article: 'Dahlia' noir: SHARED OBSESSION OVER UNSOLVED MYSTERY UNITES NOVELIST ELLROY, DIRECTOR DE PALMA.
San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA);  September 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Glenn Lovell Sep. 15--Brian De Palma and James Ellroy. A match hatched in Pulp...south of there. It was inevitable that De Palma, the Maestro of Mayhem known for the deliriously...decades of false starts, has been filmed by De Palma. The Byzantine tale of betrayal, revenge...

Article: Casualty of war; De Palma rips events from the Web to depict how truth falls by wayside
Chicago Sun-Times;  November 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ......subsequent murders in "Redacted" actually happened...director Brian De Palma found out about...remember them. "Redacted" is a metaphor for what De Palma and others believe...controversy involving De Palma and some of his...footage that was "redacted." This ...

Article: De Palma's curiosity keeps him on the move
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ...De Palma's curiosity keeps him on the move By DUANE...8, 2002 Home is wherever director Brian De Palma is making a film. He keeps an apartment...Like the writer W. Somerset Maugham, whom De Palma said "used to travel around late in his...

Article: De Palma's 'dark' days now showing on DVD
Chicago Sun-Times;  September 21, 2001 ;     700+ words ......the new DVD release of the 1976 Brian De Palma film. "I mean, those were the times, those...cinema." Not everyone would agree that De Palma deserves to be ranked alongside Robert...significant directors of those "golden years." De Palma was criticized for being a Hitchcock ripoff...

Article: De Palma, Ellroy unite to tell story of grisly Black Dahlia murder.
San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA);  September 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Glenn Lovell Brian De Palma and James Ellroy. A match hatched in Pulp...south of there. It was inevitable that De Palma, the Maestro of Mayhem known for the deliriously...decades of false starts, has been filmed by De Palma. The Byzantine tale of betrayal, revenge...

Article: PURE DE PALMA - AND MORE; `SNAKE EYES' FINDS DIRECTOR AT CINEMATIC CROSSROADS.(L.A. LIFE)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  August 7, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Strauss Daily News Film Writer A new Brian De Palma movie is always a cause for celebration...other hand, those who don't appreciate De Palma's compositional gifts and outrageous imagery...His new thriller, ``Snake Eyes,'' finds De Palma trying to satisfy both audience segments...

Article: 'Redacted': Actually, It Shows Us Too Much; De Palma Mishandles War Crime Drama
The Washington Post;  November 16, 2007 ;     616 words ......movie from Brian De Palma about the military...compelling. Sounded. "Redacted," presented as the...zeros and crosses in De Palma's heavy-handed tick-tack-toe. De Palma's reasons for making "Redacted," he has stated...feeling the outrage De Palma wants us ...

Article: DE PALMA HONES HIS HIGH-WIRE ACT.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  August 7, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Entertainment News Wire LOS ANGELES -- Even Brian De Palma, 30-year filmmaking veteran and maestro...scene'' in his latest film, Snake Eyes. De Palma shot the scene of a storm-fueled flood...victim of test screenings that convinced De Palma that the sequence hurt instead of helped...