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Article: The most dangerous game: failed male friendship in De Palma's Snake Eyes.
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- CineAction
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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If Brian De Palma is the most abused and misunderstood of great American directors--and I believe that he is--then the praise he has, on occasion, been given proves as ornery a problem as the scorn. "His new trash heart is the ultimate De Palma joke," the last line of Pauline Kael's review of Carrie (1976) affirmed. Robert Philip Kolker reserves his praise for two works that presumably evince a similar jokey knowingness:
Brian De Palma has made a career of the most superficial imitations of the most superficial aspects of Hitchcock's style, worked through a mysogyny [sic] and violence that manifest a contempt for the audience by his films (though in Scarface ...
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Article: Brian de Palma: 'Me quito el sombrero'.(Gente)
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... ... director cinematogrfico Brian De Palma dice que "se quita el sombrero" ante ... valenta que no siempre se puede apreciar en una persona", expres De Palma. El realizador neoyorquino ... Pacino y Tom Cruise. De Palma se mostr consternado por ...
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