
De Palma
The documentary is about writer and director Brian De Palma, one of the most talented, influential, and iconoclastic filmmakers of all time. It takes us through his professional life in his own words of a career that would redefine film horror and suspense.













February 9, 1960 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

September 22, 1895 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]

26 December 1927, New York City, New York, USA

20 November 1939, New York City, New York, USA

4 December 1969, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

20 September 1940, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA


December 22, 2016
By the end, regardless of how one feels about any number of his pictures, there is no question that he was a man who made movies exactly the way he intended.
February 01, 2017
You'll learn more about the art of filmmaking in this documentary than from any course in the UCLA or NYU film school.
June 17, 2016
De Palma is a deceptively simple documentary film: Director Brian De Palma sits in front of a fireplace for nearly two hours and talks about his life and career. If you love movies, it's time well spent.
June 17, 2016
A trip through his wild and hugely influential filmography is mandatory for any film fan, and that's just what directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow offer in their new documentary.
February 22, 2017
You'll dig this movie a ton, because it's basically a master filmmaker taking a stroll down memory lane and exploring what makes his work stand out.
June 23, 2016
Paltrow and Baumbach simply walk De Palma through his filmography and collect his best stories. But this systematic approach has a nice leveling effect in that his more obscure, offbeat projects get as much attention as his signature films.
December 27, 2016
[His] candid commentary reveals him to be a cultivated man with a gut-bucket sensibility trying to make mass-market commercial hits but who rarely finds the right combination of style and substance. At least we now know why he did what he did.
June 17, 2016
Immersive and illuminating ...
December 27, 2016
Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow are the co-directors of De Palma, a scrumptious documentary about the creator of Carrie and Scarface.
June 23, 2016
De Palma remains a focused and productive filmmaker at 75, with several productions in the development pipeline. "De Palma" makes one hope that he'll keep up the pace for years to come.
May 09, 2017
A serious examination of De Palma as an auteur, coming through one of the most fevered epochs of Hollywood history and surviving to tell the tale.