Brian De Palma

Filmmaker

American·b. 1940

Known for: Scarface (1983), The Untouchables (1987)

Brian De Palma made his early films in the New York underground before developing an intensely Hitchcock-inflected thriller style in Sisters (1972), Obsession (1976), and Dressed to Kill (1980). Scarface (1983) and The Untouchables (1987) extended his formal control into crime epic. His use of split-screen, slow motion, and the subjective camera constitutes a sustained engagement with the mechanics of cinematic suspense.

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