01. Sisters
02. Blow Out
03. Dressed to Kill
04. The Untouchables/ Casualties of War
05. Phantom of the Paradise
01. Sisters
02. Blow Out
03. Dressed to Kill
04. The Untouchables/ Casualties of War
05. Phantom of the Paradise
It’s been done before but here we go again:
1. The Untouchables
2. Dressed To Kill
3. Carrie
4. Casualties of War
5. Scarface
The Fury
Carrie
Dressed To Kill
Blow Out
Phantom Of The Paradise
Blow Out
Dressed to Kill
Scarface
Carrie
Femme Fatale
phantom of the paradise
raising cain
the untouchables
hi mom!
body double
bonfire of the vanities is a great bad movie
bottom five, just for fun.
scarface
femme fatale
home movies
murder a la mod
mission to mars
I love Uncle Brian so much, I’ll list a bottom five:
Mission To Mars
Greetings
Bonfire of the Vanities
Snake Eyes
Mission: Impossible
These are just least favored De Palmas.
Considering I’m not a fan of DePalma and in fact think he’s a terrible director, I do really like Sisters and, to a certain extent, always find bad directors more fascinating than good ones.
1. Sisters
2. Carrie
3. Blow Out
4. Carlito’s Way
5. Scarface
Phantom of the Paradise might muscle Scarface out from fifth though, I’d have to watch it again, especially since I’m not a huge fan of Scarface but liked portions of it.
I did rather like his Mission: Impossible, much better than other 2 definitely. I think Snake Eyes began Nic Cage’s decline into self-parody by the way, heh.
Sisters is a great B-movie, aware of itself as such; and has that Bernard Herrmann score. Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt, the antagonists of the film, were in fact great friends and housemates, and the hostesses in their Nicholas Beach home for that whole New Hollywood crew – DePalma, Scorcese, & Spielberg among them.
I saw Hi, Mom! decades ago on cable, and still remember vividly the “Be Black, Baby!” sequence from the film—it’s, like, seared into my brain (and was pretty damned sharp social satire).
I’m surprised only a few people mentioned Casualties of War—because I think that, even if every other DePalma film were thrown away, this is the one keeper. David Rabe’s screenplay kind of turns the conclusion to something vaguely like a happy ending; but of all that cohort to which DePalma belonged, that group of people for whom Vietnam and combat was an aesthetic form and not direct experience, he was the only one to confront directly the fatal cruelty of soldiers and the abject terror & misery of their victims. (Milius and Coppola enacted a shadow-play in Apocalypse Now, not a window onto combat in Vietnam—blinding fanboy sheen of the thing notwithstanding.) And of course later events in Mahmoudiya, Iraq 20 years after the film’s release – when an Iraqi girl was raped and slaughtered along with her family by U.S. troops – keep the film relevant and meaningful.
So glad someone made a thread about de palma-I think hes underapreciated. Carrie and Scarface are two of the most iconic films ever and his Hitchcock Homages are ingenious. The museum sequence in Dressed to Kill is brilliant.
^ I would agree about the museum scene in Dressed to Kill (the only good thing about the film) is excellent. I was dizzy with ectasy.
I can’t make a list, I only know that the movie I like most is Carlito’s Way!! I can only choose that, then I can not decide…
Casualties of War
Blow Out
Sisters
Carrie
Snake Eyes
The further away from my De Palma phase, the less I really like him. I still think “Casualties of War” is a fantastic movie even if it is a bit heavy handed. Witkacy is right, “Casualties” is much less of an abstraction compared to some of the other great Vietnam war films, and I’m actually a little surprised that De Palma, of all directors, had the nerve to make such a film. Some of his other pictures, while fun, don’t seem to have a lasting value aside from the novelty of them.
1. Sisters
2. Blow Out
3. Femme Fatale
4. Phantom of the Paradise
5. Casualties of War
1. Blow Out
2. Sisters
3. Dressed to Kill
4. Carrie
5. Untouchables
Blow Out
Femme Fatale
Sisters
Raising Cain
The Fury
Blow Out
Carrie
The Untouchables
Casualties of War
Dressed to Kill
and I really enjoyed The Wedding Party (that movie he did at Sarah Lawrence w/DeNiro & J. Clayburgh)
Blow Out (This was an amazing movie on so many levels.)
Casualties of War (The late film critic Pauline Kael’s longest review, maybe. She liked it.)
The Untouchables
Dressed to Kill
Carrie
Haven’t seen Sisters, but should borrow that now.
It makes me very happy that so many people have Blow Out on or near the top. I hadn’t thought it was so well recognized.
Damn this board is awesome, at least here people aren’t going into random rants of bullshit about how love Ingmar Bergman.
Top Five De Palma
Blow Out
Obsession
Carrie
Body Double
Femme Fatale
Alot of people trash De Palma, but his movies are the ones I remember most growing up because they were so thrilling & polarizing. He was my Hitchcock before I knew anything about Hitchcock. I still think his movies pay homage more than rip off. Granted, not all of his movies have been great ( I was severely disappointed by The Black Dahlia) but no matter what, when I hear there’s a new De Palma film coming out, the little boy who used to stay up late by himself to watch his movies gets excited.
1. Blow Out
2. Scarface
3. Carrie
4. Body Double
5. Dressed to Kill
Honorable Mentions to Sisters, Casualties of War, Carlito’s Way, & Femme Fatale (that opening heist is just Heaven to me)
Only 5?
1. Casulties of War (1989)
2. Blow Out (1981)
3. Carlito’s Way (1993)
4. Mission: Impossible (1996)
5. Dressed to Kill (1980)
and I have to give a nod to these two favourites, which amazingly I can find no room for on my top five:
Carrie (1976)
The Fury (1978)
and bottom 5? just for fun
Redacted
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Wise Guys
Get To Know Your Rabbit
The Wedding Party
this thread rocks….. I gotta think this top five over
1. Blow Out
2.
3.
4.
5
As much as I love “Carrie” and “Body Double” I’m not so sure those are worthy to go on. Hmm, thinks….
Man what ever happened to De Palma?
1) Carrie
2) Casualties of War
3) Blow Out
4) Dressed to Kill
5) The Untouchables
1.Scarface
2.Blow Out
3.Carlito’s Way
4.Carrie
5.Redacted
Jimenez
1. Blow Out
2. Dressed to Kill
3. Carlito’s Way
4. The Untouchables
5. Body Double