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De Palma (2016)

Documentary Rated R

“The De Palma of De Palma ultimately comes off as the same one behind his movies: a talented filmmaker, but not a deeply introspective one.”

De-Lovely (2004)

Musical Rated PG-13

An oddly stodgy biography picture of composer and lyricist Cole Porter, De-Lovely follows an aging Porter (Kevin Kline) as he revisits scenes from his life, many re-created as musical numbers. Director Irwin Winkler (Life as a House) fails to give it an ounce of the life of say, Chicago or Moulin Rouge. It’s a curious

The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)

Drama Rated NR

“…exquisite, both in its lavish craftsmanship and in the way it captures the acute joy (and pain) of romantic love.”

Belle de Jour (1967)

Drama Rated R

“…the depiction of sex gone awry is sometimes satirical, but mostly it’s closer to tragic.”

Jour de Fete (1949)

Comedy Rated NR

“…freewheelingly captures a traveling carnival’s effects on a small French village.”

Casa de mi Padre (2012)

Comedy Rated R

“If it sounds Spanish, man, that’s what it is. A Spanish movie.” Or is it? That’s the opening voiceover narration to Casa de mi Padre, a Spanish-language comic-melodrama influenced by Mexican telenovelas, Spaghetti Westerns, grindhouse gore and Will Ferrell farces. The one thing it isn’t, actually, is Spanish. So let’s just say this: Casa de

Auto Focus (2002)

Drama Rated R

Director Paul Schrader and star Greg Kinnear turn what could have been a big-screen True Hollywood Story – in this case the life of Hogan’s Heroes star and sex addict Bob Crane – into a fascinating portrait of a tortured personality. The groping on display has the sad desperation of a junkie shooting up in

Godfather: Part II, The (1974)

Drama Rated R

An ambitious expansion of the Godfather saga from Francis Ford Coppola that goes both forward and backward in time. Al Pacino evokes the tragedy of a doomed Shakespearean king as his Michael Corleone begins to sink into the quagmire of his sins, while scenes of the original Don Corleone as a young man (Robert De

Righteous Kill (2008)

Drama Rated R

"…reveals what Robert De Niro and Al Pacino truly have in common: Neither can say no to a crappy script."

Black Dahlia, The (2006)

Thriller Rated R

For a director who made a movie called Femme Fatale, Brian De Palma sure has a tough time negotiating the film-noir genre. Many of De Palma’s pictures could be called noirs, but none are as steeped in the tradition of hard-bitten detectives, double-crossing dames and thick mysteries as The Black Dahlia, based on James Ellroy’s
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