De Palma

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From directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, De Palma is a documentary profiling veteran director Brian De Palma. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year and has its Canadian release in time to coincide with TIFF’s “Split/Screen: The Cinema of Brian De Palma” running from June 18 to September 3.

One of the most talented, influential, and iconoclastic filmmakers of all time, Brian De Palma’s career started in the ’60s and has included such acclaimed and diverse films as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito’s Way, and Mission: Impossible. In this lively, illuminating and unexpectedly moving documentary, directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow engage in a personal and candid discussion with De Palma, exploring not only his life and work but also his singular approach to the craft of filmmaking and his remarkable experiences navigating the film business, from his early days as the bad boy of New Hollywood to his more recent years as a respected veteran of the field. In the end, what emerges is a funny, honest, and incisive portrait of a truly one-of-a-kind artist, and an exhilarating behind-the-scenes look at the last 50 years of the film industry through the eyes of someone who has truly seen it all.

“I find nearly all of his films so watchable, available and compelling in that same way Hitchcock’s films are,” explains Baumbach. “Even if you come into a film of his three quarters of the way in on television you want to stay with it no matter what. I’ve watched parts of The Untouchables so many times that way.”

De Palma is rated 14A.