Brian De Palma’s sleazy, sexy, and visually intoxicating 1984 film Body Double is many things at once: A critique of Hollywood, a retort to film critics, an homage to Hitchcock, a lurid thriller with sex and violence ramped up to a nearly comical degree, and a self-reflexive essay on the auteur behind the camera….
The Untouchables is a stone-cold classic. Brian De Palma’s bravura direction amounted to a clinic on how to make a supreme piece of studio funded entertainment, with showboating performances from a massive cast, all filtered through the elegant and stylized dialogue courtesy of David Mamet; his vulgar poetry really sets this one on fire. It’s…
