Brian De Palma interview (1992)

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[@themadmattster9647]

I love how humble he is. He'll say when something doesn't turn out the best, whereas even some of his contemporaries won't ever do this

[@CR055FIRE]

but he refused to make movies in his wheelhouse after that like musicians who change genre's and when their new albums fails they refuse to play their old songs

[@sabinoluevano7447]

I just watched Dressed to kill, and I knew immediately who was the killer, but I still watch it till the end because is so good: the rhythm, the cinematography, the acting. Everything is so darn good.

[@ninamc6116]

My favorite DePalma movie

[@corribnews2219]

No one speaks more intelligently about films and filmmaking than De Palma. Such a great artist. I'd give anything to shake his hand and say thank you. --Kevin Whelan

[@philmfan]

I think DePalma is wearing that coat or one like it in every photograph or interview I've seen him in. Lots of pockets. One of the most cinematic directors due to his strong visual storytelling. Scorsese, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Welles, Kurosawa type guy. I get a great jolt watching his films in a theater, the nicer the theater, the better. And Carpets! He does great overhead shots with a moving camera where you see the actors against an expanse of floor covering. Strangely appealing and dreamlike. A great eye for how movie sets affect storytelling, as his comment here points out. Overlooked Raising Cane, have to re-watch it.

[@Tlamourep03]

I love how honest DePalma is about Bonfire. He is a true master who really loves cinema.

[@CR055FIRE]

It's like how Lynch views Dune, even though Dune would be way better than Bonfire, if it was in the same genre

[@aclark903]

@@CR055FIREI don’t understand why people hate bonfire. Great book, good movie.

[@CR055FIRE]

@@aclark903 u got bad taste dawg

[@aclark903]

@@CR055FIRE ya think?

[@CR055FIRE]

@@aclark903 it brings me no joy to say it

[@epie6]

I really love his movie Sisters (which is brutally underrated I feel) and Body Double, both are so creepy and definitely not for the faint hearted but his way of storytelling and direction is nothing short of genius. He keeps you invested till the very end. You can't predict anything. 🙂

[@tonirose6776]

Yes. Those two in particular.

[@ninamc6116]

Sisters was terrifying

[@nomiddlenamenmn427]

Love his demeanor and voice. Great cinematic mind. Love Carrie and Dressed to Kill.

[@zantigar]

Oh man, what. great interview! Brian De Palma is the epitome of intellectual honesty - so down to earth, detached (in a good way), and outright hilarious, I can only love the man! He's like the great uncle professor whose candor in the living room gets everyone bursting out in warm laughter - and such a profound lover of great cinema! An infectious spirit! Thanks so much for posting!

[@steveconn]

Blow-Out might be his greatest masterpiece. John Travolta as a movie sound-man who accidentally records an assassination. Good stuff. Check it out!

[@MahmoudOscarMD]

steve conn Scarface, Blow Out, and Carlito's Way are his best films.

[@matthewb8493]

body double

[@javierforster8313]

Phantom of the Paradise

[@themadmattster9647]

I have a soft spot for Obsession, but I think most of his seventies films were just plain masterpieces. The one I didn't really love entirely was the Fury, I can't put my finger on why, but I didn't dig that film too much

[@majortom4658]

Please all see, BRIAN DE PALMA - MASTERPIECES, for a beautifully orchestrated film tribute mix of cinematic cinematography, dialogue & song, FANTASTIC !!!!!

[@kylerswamp1075]

He’s just a straight up dude. No fluff no flamboyance just: this is how it is and this is what I try to do. Love it love it

[@BrendanMacWade]

Notice how De Palma never says "ah" or "um"? I have envied this talent all my life. HE NEVER DOES THAT.

[@Njbear7453]

This was before Carlito’s Way came out, my personal favorite.

[@humanbeing5300]

Definitely one of the all time greats

[@ericjourdain892]

What a delightful and humble man 💕

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Carlito's Way is his magnum opus.

[@qwertyuiop-ke7fs]

Note that none of the criticism of Bonfire of the Vanities has anything to do with the craft of directing. The film is amazingly directed, the actors are terrific and the cinematography was beautiful. It has some hyperbole and Morgan Freeman's speech at the end is cringy. The negative reaction is almost entirely due to the fact that de Palma presented a pretty objective view of a lot of media-born and fostered controversy, as well as probably turned Sherman McCoy into somebody far more likable than he otherwise should have been. When Sherman wins at the end, they play triumphant music and all that, he's the hero of the story and frankly he's not that great of a guy in the book. Bonfire of the Vanities is one of the most criminally underrated movies of all time.

[@casrifay]

qwertyuiop123456789 the problem there was the script. All the rest was good as you said

[@jameskelly5672]

Brian is great director.

[@gloriadignazio2515]

Phantom of the Paradise is the gem, a masterpiece DePalma made...after that, Body Double!

[@m1lst3r89]

Too bad it's sexist as hell.

[@motioneccentrica]

Thank you for creating and maintaining this channl @manufacturingIntellect

[@PiCheZvara]

De Palma never found success like some of his contemporaries, but he always was a great filmmaker.

[@rickw1100]

Dressed to Kill is his best film. Absolutely fantastic.

[@michaelmeza1913]

watching tomorrow now that you say .. i watched Greetings loved it.. then Hi, Mom the day after and took it as a sequel of Greetings... tonight i watched Get to Know your rabbit and it was alright...

[@DMalltheway]

That, Blowout and Body Double

[@rnw2739]

Rubbish!!! 'Carrie' is far superior to all those!

[@CR055FIRE]

Mission Impossible is his best film, imo.

[@ninamc6116]

I agree.

[@JoshRoweice]

3:59 I guess we're never getting Brian De Palma's Hamlet set in Trump tower

[@ackamack101]

Bonfire of the Vanities is like a Kubrick film in that it was critically hated upon release (as The Shining was in 1980), but give it a decade or two and you realize what a great film it is. Bonfire is not a terrible movie by any stretch of the imagination. The book is the book and the movie is the movie, which will always be the case, but Bonfire has some incredible stuff in it. And it is certainly better than almost anything today. Nobody does visually what De Palma does, and this was before CGI. Like the opening shot, which people have mentioned. Garrett Brown in the documentary on the steadicam said that De Palma has made the best use of the steadicam more than just about anyone else out there. Bonfire is nothing to slouch at.

[@themadmattster9647]

thanks for the recommendation. I'm watching his entire oeuvre over the past few months and haven't watched that one yet. From what you're saying, I suppose I need to watch this one

[@MicahSMoore]

The director just said it’s bad though.

[@Corn_Pone_Flicks]

No, he didn't. His exact words were "It's an interesting movie that I like. It's not Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities." I find it pretty entertaining, maybe because I've not read the book.

[@m1lst3r89]

The Shining received some rave reviews and was financially successful, while Bonfire got none. It's confusing film with totally bland and boring characters. Unlike The Shining.

[@CR055FIRE]

Bonfire sucked and will always suck.

[@ninamc6116]

He’s fantastic. Great movies. Very few directors create horror & suspense as well. I watched Dressed to Kill the other day, it was riveting. Sisters is one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen. I found Scarface very frightening

[@kevinwhelan9607]

De Palma is a great artist of the cinema. I love his pacing, how his films are cut, the use of music, how he moves the camera (Fincher clearly paid attention), the terrific performances he gets from his actors: talk about an ensemble! And let's not forget what matters: He entertains his audience with wonderful, edge of the seat stories. Hitchcock would have been proud of him. That Hitch's mother's maiden name was Whelan is neither here nor there: those last four words would make for a terrific De Palma title❤

[@stanleyraz6690]

It's funny that he mentioned David Lean and with such admiration, because the later wasn't very kind to him, he absolutely trashed the untouchables in an interview.

[@m1lst3r89]

What? He did?

[@oldgit4260]

Scarface and Carlito's Way. Masterpeices

[@Raviteja-ne9ik]

and Carrie.

[@oldgit4260]

Ravi teja he did Carrie? I didn't know that..

[@Raviteja-ne9ik]

Not many talk about it but it's an underrated classic.

[@oldgit4260]

Ravi teja last time I saw Carrie was in a farmhouse in the Lake District in about 1984! I remember it looked good....

[@majortom4658]

Please all see, BRIAN DE PALMA - MASTERPIECES, for a beautifully orchestrated film tribute mix of cinematic cinematography, dialogue & song, FANTASTIC !!!!!

[@suat365]

Blow Out, Scarface, the untouchables, Carlito's way

[@RajivBhaskar-s9y]

AND carrie

[@AxelCrespo-o6c]

Don't forget The Fury (1978).

[@johnflynn9619]

Brian is the Greatest.

[@ryangettig274]

This Is Truth:)

[@Leif_sauce]

4:28 Brian DePalma flips him off!

[@djjdnewyork1]

Watching this while reading Devil's Candy, about the making of Bonfire. Big recommend! Genius dude--you get the sense he knew while making Bonfire that it was not working. Because it couldn't possibly work---the book is strictly satire & allegorical...centering around characters that are basically archetypes. (And certainly not as a big-budget, "A" movie by a major studio.)

[@egglady]

Bonfire of the Vanities wasn't a bad movie, but then again I've never read the book. Maybe if I had, I would have been disappointed too. But taken as its own thing, I liked it enough.

[@worldprez6655]

Geez Charlie could have given him some credit for at least a couple of his great films if he was going to spend half the interview bashing him for bonfire of the vanities

[@tonirose6776]

Riiiiight?!

[@erichill2690]

Having not read the book, I enjoyed the cultural statements of this movie.

[@edvenuto9614]

He know how to keep you interested

[@natalirios2510]

Who is the man they are talking at 11: 30? My english is not so good..

[@Filmdude2001]

They are talking about director David Lean, who directed the classics "Lawrence of Arabia" and "The Bridge over the River Kwai".

[@natalirios2510]

ohh thank you!

[@FilmotronCity]

I know nothing about the book, I only know the movie, and I'm a fan.

[@CR055FIRE]

you have bad taste then

[@das-apfel]

@@CR055FIREwhy so mad babyboy?

[@CR055FIRE]

​@@das-apfel i'm so mad about the 1990 movie "The Bonfire of the Vanities"

[@Studeb]

He was most likely working on Carlito's Way when this was filmed, my second favourite film of his after Scarface.

[@francissookraj3202]

Brian De Palma is a brilliant director one of the master of suspence and thriller genre. He made the excellent Dressed to kill, Scareface, Carlito's way, Body double among others. Yes, Bonfire of the Vanities wasn't a good movie, yet it was't a very good book either. I remember reading it in the early ninties and the whole buzz being the greatest novel , I was bored to tears.

[@okilfeathermusic]

6:12 is Rose saying he hasn't seen The Magnificent Ambersons.

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

Why the heck would ANYONE mention Wise Guys?

[@randallbrooks5787]

Because it was a great movie!

[@steveconn]

Because Charlie is a slapdash, sloppy interviewer.

[@ryangettig274]

Because it's funny!:)

[@DMalltheway]

Raising Cain was definitely good, not his best. What takes it out of being a masterpiece is De Palma was juggling too many things at once that couldn’t make the movie work 100% but it was still very good!

[@egglady]

If you haven’t seen it, you should check out the director’s cut that’s featured on the Blu-ray. It started as a fan edit that was intended to emulate De Palma’s original edit of the movie. De Palma saw it and loved it and personally requested that it be included on the release. I think it’s much better than the theatrical release version. It begins with the wife’s story, which gives the film more of a Dressed to Kill feeling.

[@l2084]

The Bonfire of the Vanities is not a horrible movie. Watch It now, It has good qualities!

[@waywardwatchdog1]

That opening shot is incredible.

[@ryangettig274]

It does have great qualities!:)

[@juancpgo]

nobody said it was horrible

[@drainel9707]

Its great

[@CR055FIRE]

Bonfire sucks.

[@cjtorres77]

The bonfire of the vanities is not a great movie but it's not a bad movie it's pretty funny watching it now 20 years later I got it so give it another chance. Tom Hanks and Melanie Griffith were very funny in the movie and Bruce Willis also gave his comedy best.

[@chromakeyblue]

In a segment De Palma refers to Rose being a great interviewer. He certainly was able to get many celebrities etc. agreeing to interviews, but the fact that it was public television that really was probably the reason for all getting the personalities. Without PBS his prize guests would have been naught. Rose also has the terrible habit of jumping on his guests lines. He should do a little more listening and then let them finish. Sometimes his guests struggle to make the punch line and he steps all over it. Terrible.

[@bbqnetwork8536]

Charlie look bored and it is insulting how he keeps asking him about bonfire of the vanities that was a great movie that people were judging based on the book and not in context of how it presented as a movie which is one of the more entertaining and compelling movies about race and class relations of all time

[@rfld9186]

And what a humble and mature guy Brian is for not getting angry or anything. I am amazed. He stays calm, composed, affable, answers honestly to every question Charlie asks.

[@waynej2608]

Yes, and I didn't care for his putting down, Falling in Love. Ok, it wasn't The Deer Hunter or Sophie's Choice, but it wasn't without merit.

[@m1lst3r89]

No, it was awful!

[@bbqnetwork8536]

Bonfire of the vanities was great it was way better than the book

[@CR055FIRE]

it sucked balls

[@theslendergamer1006]

I love scarface

[@cinnamon4605]

Why don't we have more of Citizen Kane??????

[@derekgiesbrecht2929]

Was Rose trashing "Deer Hunter" as a deniro/streep movie that was bad?

[@spiroskoufos5412]

GREAT!

[@FucTrump]

My personal ranking of the works of this fabulous director: DePalma gold collection: Casualties of war, Carloto's way, The untouchables, Scarface. DePalma Silver collection: Sisters, Dressed to kill, Blow out, Carrie, HI mom, Greetings, Mission impossible. Phantom of the paradise. DePalma Bronze: Body double, Raising Cain, The fury, Snake eyes. DePalma shit: Bonfire of the vanities, Wise guys, Every movie he's made in the 21st century.

[@shanesawyer5103]

Carrie is Gold

[@FucTrump]

​@@shanesawyer5103In your opinion. By all means, share your personal list.

[@classicartfoundation639]

Scarface. Perfection.

[@mariettasatifka8371]

Obsession.

[@tommym321]

The biggest problem with the movie isn’t the movie- it’s that this was a book that simply could not be made into a big budget studio movie. The source material was totally unsuitable for a “people pleasing” film.

[@James_Bowie]

I really like "Bonfire of the Vanities".

[@cartyrdeyager3283]

De Palma gets a little irritated by Roses question of if Spielberg was offered to film Bonfie of the vanities. De Palma slyly gives the middle finger as he scratched his nose. Lovely subtlety De Palma!

[@taylanozturk7327]

8:26

[@hornek]

6:12 the interviewer has no idea what film he's talking about.

[@alex.youngen]

De Palma calling out Trump. He knew.

[@mmedlen1]

De Palma did it June and need to tic!!!!

[@Alprazolam08]

SCARFACE!!

[@yommish]

Charlie Rose doesn’t listen and always interrupts his guests, so annoying

[@efosai]

still stoned on ocean

[@platero814]

talking heads vs dead heads

[@mmedlen1]

😳🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯😮😮😮😮

[@jackzaccardi1896]

Rose is a terrible interviewer. Period

[@CR055FIRE]

he loves himself too much to have a real conversation with anyone

[@jacquelineeick5986]

basically copies Hitchcock !

[@AshPragasam]

Can't stand this interviewer

[@dfreeman120]

Charlie is too annoying

[@charleswinokoor6023]

“Scarface” was campy trash. Pacino was a stupid caricature of who knows who, but lots and lots of Americans of questionable intelligence think it’s super cool.

[@waynej2608]

I've always preferred Carlito's Way to Scarface. Better Pacino performance and just a better film. Imho. Although, Michelle Pfeiffer was awesome in Scarface. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantoni, too.

[@Njbear7453]

Carlito’s Way is so much better

[@DavidBerglund]

They're so different though while sharing some themes. I totally see why many would say that Carlito's Way is objectively better movie but I prefer enjoying movies for what they are. I view Scarface as an over the top, over stylized banger of a hilariously sleezy parody of a movie. It's such a blast. I'm sure it inspired Tarantino quite a lot too.