Brian De Palma’s Films, Ranked
Here we pay homage to one of screen’s pre-eminent visual stylists and most irrepressible troublemakers
ARE SNAKES NECESSARY?
This irresistibly pulpy psycho-thriller is the first novel by film legend Brian De Palma (co-written with girlfriend Susan Lehman)
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
More 1970s TV movie madness, this one of note because it was Christmas themed
1987: The Year in Bedlam
In the 1980s movie-verse 1987 was something of an anomaly, being an authentically good year for film
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
The word for this quasi-satirical brainwashing thriller is dated
NASTY
Director Paul Chart, of the psycho-thriller classic AMERICAN PERFEKT, can always be counted on for the unexpected, and unexpected is indeed the word for NASTY
1996: The Year in Bedlam
From a cinematic standpoint 1996 can be viewed as the beginning of the end on two counts
WHY DOES HERR R. RUN AMOK?
A maddening, thought-provoking and altogether brilliant portrayal of a murderer that doesn’t announce itself as such until the final ten minutes!
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Here we have a novel that might be termed the thinking man’s MISERY
IF I WERE A SPY
The second film directed by France’s Bertrand Blier was this eccentric black and white noir thriller from 1967