HER CULTURAL DAILY POST IS A BRIEF GLANCE AT HER DAYS AS ENT. JOURNALIST, INTERVIEWING DE PALMA THROUGH THE YEARS
A couple of years ago, I was trying to figure out, via Google, etc., exactly where this photo of Brian De Palma, posing in his office, came from. And here is the answer - via a post yesterday by Elisa Leonelli, who took the photo in 1978, as she was interviewing De Palma upon release of The Fury:
After reading a Los Angeles Times review of The De Palma Decade by Laurent Bouzereau, I was reminded of the many times I interviewed the Italian-American director as an entertainment journalist and the articles I wrote about his movies.I met Brian De Palma for the first time in 1978 in his New York office, when I was writing for the Cinema supplement of the Italian newsweekly L’Europeo. We spoke about his latest work, The Fury, and I asked him about some of the movies he had directed until then.
He said about Hi Mom! starring Robert De Niro: “We were seeing the Vietnam War essentially as a voyeuristic experience. America then became a cold nation in front of the horrible things that we were doing.”
Sisters: “It develops the classic theme of the good sister and bad sister, the two aspects of our personality, one light and one dark.”
Obsession: “I was imitating my favorite film, Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock, telling a very romantic story.”
Carrie: “I wanted to represent the high school experience in a different way. It’s typical of a teenager to feel cut off like the ugly duckling.”
See the rest of Leonelli's post amd photos at Cultural Daily.
Updated: Monday, October 7, 2024 11:59 PM CDT
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