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Like many kids in the 80s generation, this film was my introduction to one of the coolest genre specialists working in movies: Paul Verhoeven. When I watched Robocop for the first time I knew it had something different going on. From the characters, to the setting to the humor, it broke away from the usual action films we were getting at the time and really did its own thing. Alex [read...] 
“I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it’s one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.” – Brian DePalma FILM REVIEW Brian DePalma’s 1981 conspiracy thriller Blow Out is probably more than anything else a masterpiece of purely visual storytelling. The opening sequence itself is a trick on the audience in the form [read...] 
In some exciting home entertainment news, Brian DePalma’s 1981 conspiracy-thriller masterpiece Blow Out is coming to the Criterion Collection in April! John Travolta stars as Jack Terry, an exploitation film audio engineer who witnesses the assassination of a politician one night while recording some outdoor sound effects. When the story is later covered up, Jack becomes obsessed with finding out the truth behind it all. Considered to be one of [read...] “If its a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.” – Alfred Hitchcock “Visual imagery and sound are essential elements of film. Thats what makes cinema cinema. Most directors use their camera as recording instruments and don’t really get to the essential element of form.” – Brian DePalma LISTEN TO THE MAIN THEME by Pino [read...] LISTEN TO THE MAIN THEME Ever since first seeing Brian DePalma’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Carrie (a tale about a girl with supernatural mental powers), it has been one of my most favorite works of cinema. A group of high school girls are playing volleyball in gym class. One girl in the corner misses the ball when it’s hit towards her. The other girls taunt her and [read...] |
   
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