FORMER STUDENT SAYS DE PALMA "CONSTANTLY REFERRED TO ALL HIS FILMS AS TURKEYS"
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Friday, August 10, 2012 - 9:18 PM CDT
Name: "Ang"Christoher Nolan is today's elite filmmaker. I don't know what's happened to De Palma? Last good De Palma was Carlito's Way. Mission Impossible, Snake Eyes, Mission To Mars, Femme Fatale had great visual planning but the development of the screenplays stunk! When one see's the density of visual detail Nolan brought to Inception, Mission Impossible needed to be that original in it's concepts. Black Dahlia and Redacted had limited chance of finding an audience where Black Dahlia had average performances when one see's the power-house performances in Curtis Hanson's LA Confidential with power-house violence that Black Dahlia only hinted at. Hopefully Passion will recall the days De Palma made films such as Sisters, Obsession, Carrie, The Fury, Dressed To Kill, Blow Out, Scarface, Body Double, The Untouchables, Casualties Of War, Raising Cain and Carlito's Way.
Saturday, August 11, 2012 - 12:44 PM CDT
Name: "Geoff"
In terms of power, yes, Christopher Nolan is today's elite filmmaker. But don't you think in terms of quality, the true elite filmmaker right now is Paul Thomas Anderson?
Anyway, FEMME FATALE is a masterpiece. Interesting comparison between MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE and INCEPTION, but I would argue that MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE had several layers of visuals going on in single shots, whereas Nolan seems to attempt such details through editing.
Saturday, August 11, 2012 - 6:46 PM CDT
Name: "Ang"
Paul Thomas Anderson is an auteur. The opening 15 minutes of Magnolia is complex and mutli-layered from different perspectives of coincidences.
Mission Impossible has too many plot-holes and a simple plot with a predictable villian. The visual design of the film is what makes it interesting to watch. It wasn't the story I was expecting and at the end of the day the film isn't as braintwisting as one thought. The movie needed another huge action set-piece and more sleight-of-hand set-pieces that the tv show was famous for.
Christopher Nolan reminds me of Nicholas Roeg and Inception can be seen as a Missio:Impossible film in the dream world with a truly braintwisting concept with exhilirating car chases, shoot-outs and mind-games that De Palma's Mission film fails to achieve. Still De Palma's direction of that unfortunate script is the one true saving grace.
Saturday, August 11, 2012 - 7:06 PM CDT
Name: "Geoff"
And this just in-- J Hoberman asks whether David Cronenberg is our most original filmmaker:
"Indeed, Cronenberg is not only Kubrick's heir as the most experimental narrative filmmaker at work today but the most provocative and consistently original North American director of his generation.
"Granted, Martin Scorsese's quartet of "Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull" and "The King of Comedy," all with Robert De Niro, is an accomplishment without parallel in post-'60s Hollywood cinema, and, yes, Steven Spielberg is a pop-culture virtuoso as well as the most influential commercial moviemaker of the last 35 years. But despite his gifts, Scorsese has never returned to his early form while, for all his ambition, Spielberg's supreme achievements remain his pure entertainment machines ("Jaws," "E.T.," "Jurassic Park"). Two other contenders, David Lynch and Brian De Palma, have each made brilliant films ("Blue Velvet," "Blow Out"), but more often than not their experiments have blown up in the lab; scanning the horizon, the tallest tree is Paul Thomas Anderson."
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - 9:43 AM CDT
Name: "Calum"
I think that there is a clear De Palma influence on Nolan. For me it is films like Mission: Impossible that have influenced him most and without which long, complex, playfully elaborate films like Inception and The Dark Knight Rises etc would not have seen the light of day.
Nolan also seems to have taken a leaf out of De Palma's book in that he alternates big studio films (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight) with more personal projects (The Prestige, Inception). Additionally even when he makes a big studio movie he projects his directorial personality onto it, much as De Palma does in films like Mission: Impossible which, despite being a big budget studio film, has De Palma's stamp firmly on it.
I agree PTA is becoming the best director of his generation although he has only really started to explore his directorial personality from Punch Drunk Love onwards - while the previous films were good and well directed, they were more showcases of writing than direction. Given a few more films under his belt I feel that Todd Field could soon rival PTA as the best of his generation and may well become the true heir to Kubrick.