Two days before his 75th birthday, Brian de Palma discusses his career in the documentary Palm , presented today, out of competition at Venice, where he was relaxed, happy and ironic. “If you’re in this business, you better have a sense of humor,” he said.
“When you make a movie, the reaction is usually the opposite of what you expect,” said the director, who said that we must be very persistent to get ahead in the world of cinema.
We must “believe in yourself and keep going without caring what they say or what they think of you” must have “talent, luck and persistence” said a director with a career alternating titles with great commercial success and failures that ensures not regret anything I’ve done.
Something that repeats in the film, in which he defends with passion each its less valued jobs, as Wise guys , a comedy with Danny DeVito, Casualties of War ‘The best story about the Vietnam War, in his opinion, or The bonfire of the vanities.
“I have tried to do their best films to work. I do not think I’ve changed my view of them over the years,” said De Palma, Today also will collect a prize as part of the Mostra for his contribution to cinema.
In the documentary, the director is omnipresent election of directors by Jake Paltrow and Noah Baumbach-, it took ten years to complete a project in which De Palma is the only interviewee.
“We are only interested in the view of Brian, as a director and as a friend,” Paltrow said as Baumbach said it was over “capture what being a director and a director is more than a tribute (…) Brian is more than enough by itself.”
The set up of De Palma explaining projects or telling anecdotes of filming and his life, alternating with images of their films or other films with that at some point I had relationship.
The images of his beginnings in the seventies are the most interesting, with a portrait of his friendship with Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and George Lucas, with whom he formed a close-knit group of young directors who were helping with their respective projects.
De Palma tells how to example offered him to direct Taxi driver but felt it was a story more style Scorsese, or how his early films were starring Robert de Niro, intone fellow student.
the film, the director of films like Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface or The Untouchables, fondly remembers the time, with a certain nostalgic tone.
Among the commercial films, independent projects or outside the system, De Palma has built a career full of ups and downs, with works of authorship and many commissions (like the first Mission impossible Tom Cruise) This has not prevented it one of the directors of worship par excellence.
Thirty hours of footage was the result of interviews with De Palma, who explains his creative process from an image.
“Normally I have a visual idea through an image and then the idea of a character.” As with Blow out , starring a sound engineer (John Tavolta) listening to a murder. Everything arose from problems with wind noise while riding another movie.
And also how visual frame of the filmmaker, who often resorts to offer split screen or multiple simultaneous points of attention in the same .
A free and very difficult to transfer cinematic style television which many filmmakers working now.
De Palma began preparing a series for HBO with Al Pacino who left before we started shooting. “The executive producers were very intrusive. I’ve never had more meetings by a script (…) on television are the producer and writer who have control.”
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