Posts Tagged ‘brian de palma’

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    Brian De Palma- No winners in a war
    /**  Spoilers in post Quite often  when  i  go  through   some  of   the  best  anti  war  movies  that  have been  made,  i can’t  help  noticing  one thing, in a vast  majority  of   the  cases,  the  anti  war  movies  come  out  after  the  actual  war  is  over. I  take  a look  at  some  of  the  more  well known  anti...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at September 17th, 2009 at 03:09 am
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    Brian De Palma-Only the paranoid survive.
    “Mulder, are you suggesting that we somehow create our own quirky focal points of paranoia, as a result of the lack of things that are worth fearing in our day-to-day lives? That we’re not whole as beings without something to worry about, something to keep our eye on?” “That’s my point exactly, Scully. What if, in a society characterized...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at September 10th, 2009 at 05:09 am
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    Brian De Palma-Rage of a Woman
    Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned-  The Mourning Bride by William Congreve. In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man-Nietzsche, Beyond  Good and Evil. To  just  look  at  the  tale  of  Carrie,  as a  ”scorned  woman”   taking  revenge  on  the  world,  would  be  to  overlook...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at August 21st, 2009 at 07:08 am
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    Brian De Palma- You can’t believe everything you see
    (Spoilers  in  post). YOU  CAN’T  BELIEVE  EVERYTHING  YOU  SEE It  could  be  the  fact  that  Body  Double  is  set  against  the  backdrop  of  the  B-Movie and porno  world,  two  places,  where  nothing  is  what   it  seems. Or  it  could  be  that  nothing  is  really  what  it  is  in  this   over  the  top,...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at August 18th, 2009 at 04:08 am
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    Brian De Palma-The World is Yours
    (Some  spoilers  in the post). Say Hello to my Little brother I   was  one  of  those  hated  Scarface when  i  saw  it  first.  I  guess  maybe  i  saw  it  a time,  when  i  hated  anything  even  remotely  80’s.  And  the movie   was  80’s,  right from  Giorgio  Moroder’s  techno  music  to  the  over the top  acting...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at August 13th, 2009 at 04:08 am
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    Brian De Palma- And so it began
    1988- I  was  watching  the  Academy  Awards ceremony on  TV.  The  nominees   for  the  Best  Supporting  Actor  were  being  announced,  and  one  of  them  was  an  actor,  who  to  date  still  happens  to be my  favorite  Bond,   Sean  Connery.   Slightly  older,  with a salt and pepper  beard,  but  still  looking   dashing...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at August 11th, 2009 at 04:08 am
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    Carlito’s Way- The Road to Redemption
    In  1983,    Brian  De  Palma  and  Al  Pacino,  came  together  in Scarface,  a  movie  that  polarized critics  and  audiences  alike.  After  his  turn  as  the  suave  Michael  Corleone in The  Godfather  Series,  Pacino,  again  lit  up  the screen as  Tony Montana,  a  foul mouthed,  hot headed,  illiterate,  cocaine  snorting ...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at March 19th, 2009 at 06:03 am
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    Al Pacino and the Mob
    Al Pacino a name that immediately brings into mind intense roles and a crackling screen presence that can chew up the scenery. Ask Keanu Reeves, who ended up as a glorified extra in The Devil’s Advocate. And yes those wonderful monologues, which basically comes from Pacino’s penchant for Shakespearan Theater. In his long career, Pacino has portrayed crooks,...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at November 21st, 2008 at 10:11 pm
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    Scarface – 25 Years
    1983 India won the World Cup in Cricket converting yours truly into a total cricket fan. The Star Wars series continued its success with Return of the Jedi topping the charts. Michael Jackson’s Thriller becomes a rage. And in the same year on Dec 9, was released a movie that would polarize the movie lovers community into 2 camps, those who hated it and those who...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at November 20th, 2008 at 07:11 am
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