Article: Brian De Palma, Through The Lens; Clips From the Career Of the Director With The Cutting Edge

Lunch with Brian De Palma. You half expect him to order a very rare steak, slice into it with a large serrated knife, and watch the blood form visually striking patterns on the china.

You have, after all, spent several increasingly jittery days watching his movies on videocassettes, seeing people artistically dismembered with chain saws, drilled to the floor, slashed with straight razors, attacked in showers. Entering an elevator behind a perfectly ordinary-looking businessman now gives you pause.

But no. He asks the waitress for an endive salad. Then he pulls a high-resolution video camera out of his canvas shoulder bag and turns it on his interrogator. "Introduce yourself, please," ...

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