Martin Scorsese has quite a list of projects to his name. Goodfellas comes to mind when anyone thinks of movies that made the world sit in awe of his skills. The Irishman is another project that reminded fans of his mettle recently.
That is what makes Scorsese a true genius – the web he weaves has lasted for years now. Even if Gen-z were to watch a Scorsese classic from the late 20th century or the 70s, they would appreciate his perspicacity. And Taxi Driver is one of his everlasting classics.
Taxi Driver was an important movie for Martin Scorsese Taxi Driver holds a special place in Martin Scorsese’s heart || Image by Harald Krichel, licensed under Cc By-sa 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
If fans were to ask Martin Scorsese which project he would hold close to his heart, Taxi Driver would rank highly on his list. He has made it clear...
That is what makes Scorsese a true genius – the web he weaves has lasted for years now. Even if Gen-z were to watch a Scorsese classic from the late 20th century or the 70s, they would appreciate his perspicacity. And Taxi Driver is one of his everlasting classics.
Taxi Driver was an important movie for Martin Scorsese Taxi Driver holds a special place in Martin Scorsese’s heart || Image by Harald Krichel, licensed under Cc By-sa 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
If fans were to ask Martin Scorsese which project he would hold close to his heart, Taxi Driver would rank highly on his list. He has made it clear...
- 5/11/2025
- by Smriti Sneh
- FandomWire
It is not surprising that "Columbo" is beloved as a detective show. Peter Falk's titular sleuth waltzes through the toughest cases with relentless precision, using his perceived ineptitude to disarm the slickest of criminals. When these criminals underestimate him and mistake his shrewdness for incompetence, it is incredibly satisfying to watch a smart, amicable fellow like Columbo have the last laugh. Moreover, it is a detective show like no other, taking an unconventional approach to how the mystery unfolds. Instead of operating like a whodunit, "Columbo" reveals the perpetrator in the first act and hinges its suspense on how Columbo gets to the heart of a case that appears unsolvable at first glance. "Just one more thing," Columbo muses, while poking every aspect of a case until the truth is revealed as plain as day.
The ABC series, which was released in 1968 on NBC, starts by setting an incredibly high standard.
The ABC series, which was released in 1968 on NBC, starts by setting an incredibly high standard.
- 5/6/2025
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
Tom Smothers, one half of The Smothers Brothers, has sadly passed away at the age of 86 after battling cancer. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, their popular variety show in the 1960s, launched the careers of many future stars and featured iconic musical acts. Smothers had a successful career in comedy and music. He received a special Emmy Award in 2008.
As one half of The Smothers Brothers, Tom Smothers was a comedy icon, best known for working with his brother, Dick, on their 1960s variety program The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. It was announced today that the legendary star is the latest to sadly pass away this year, as confirmed in a statement by his younger brother. Smothers was 86.
Following a battle with cancer, Smothers died on Tuesday at his Santa Rosa home in California. Dick Smothers released a statement, through a spokesperson, to share the sad news. The statement said:...
As one half of The Smothers Brothers, Tom Smothers was a comedy icon, best known for working with his brother, Dick, on their 1960s variety program The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. It was announced today that the legendary star is the latest to sadly pass away this year, as confirmed in a statement by his younger brother. Smothers was 86.
Following a battle with cancer, Smothers died on Tuesday at his Santa Rosa home in California. Dick Smothers released a statement, through a spokesperson, to share the sad news. The statement said:...
- 12/28/2023
- by Anthony Lund
- MovieWeb
Brian De Palma unleashes 101 ferocious Hitchcock references for this great horror opus, all bolstered by Bernard Herrmann’s nerve-jangling music score. Plus a very young Margot Kidder and the impressive Jennifer Salt. It’s a fine revisit of an early Criterion disc, with some highly amusing extras — such as a surprising 1970 talk-show excerpt with Margo Kidder, Janis Joplin and Gloria Swanson.
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The Criterion Collection 89
1973 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 92 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date , 2018 / 39.95
Starring Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley, Dolph Sweet
Cinematography Gregory Sandor
Production Designer Gary Weist
Film Editor Paul Hirsch
Original Music Bernard Herrmann
Writing credits Brian De Palma and Louisa Rose
Produced by Edward R. Pressman
Directed by Brian DePalma
In 1971, New York Filmmaker Brian De Palma was just beginning to become well-known among the hipper cinema literati … like Martin Scorsese and Paul Bartel, he was already a legend in...
Sisters
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 89
1973 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 92 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date , 2018 / 39.95
Starring Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley, Dolph Sweet
Cinematography Gregory Sandor
Production Designer Gary Weist
Film Editor Paul Hirsch
Original Music Bernard Herrmann
Writing credits Brian De Palma and Louisa Rose
Produced by Edward R. Pressman
Directed by Brian DePalma
In 1971, New York Filmmaker Brian De Palma was just beginning to become well-known among the hipper cinema literati … like Martin Scorsese and Paul Bartel, he was already a legend in...
- 10/30/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
One of Brian dePalma’s more obscure credits, this unappreciated attempt to turn Tommy Smothers into a movie star fizzled out. Filmed in 1970 after Hi Mom and before Sisters, it fell victim to a regime change at Warner Bros. and wasn’t released until 1972. But it’s still an offbeat anti-establishment spoof that’s now finally available on dvd through Warner Archive.
The post Get to Know Your Rabbit appeared first on Trailers From Hell.
The post Get to Know Your Rabbit appeared first on Trailers From Hell.
- 7/13/2018
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
Ryan Lambie Published Date Friday, September 23, 2016 - 06:17
If director Brian De Palma was sometimes criticised for settling for style over substance in his thrillers, this feature-length documentary about his career is reassuringly basic in its approach. Barring archive footage and one, solitary moment, directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow divide their retrospective between sequences from De Palma’s movies and interviews with the filmmaker himself, seated in front of a grey fireplace.
It’s the kind of move that could be regarded as lazy or tentative in some circumstances, but Baumbach and Paltrow are shrewd enough to recognise that a director known for his technical flourishes needs room to breathe; and besides, De Palma and his movies are interesting enough subjects that they hardly need further embellishment.
Even De Palma’s structure is straightforward: we start at the beginning, when the future director of Carrie and The Untouchables was a kid,...
If director Brian De Palma was sometimes criticised for settling for style over substance in his thrillers, this feature-length documentary about his career is reassuringly basic in its approach. Barring archive footage and one, solitary moment, directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow divide their retrospective between sequences from De Palma’s movies and interviews with the filmmaker himself, seated in front of a grey fireplace.
It’s the kind of move that could be regarded as lazy or tentative in some circumstances, but Baumbach and Paltrow are shrewd enough to recognise that a director known for his technical flourishes needs room to breathe; and besides, De Palma and his movies are interesting enough subjects that they hardly need further embellishment.
Even De Palma’s structure is straightforward: we start at the beginning, when the future director of Carrie and The Untouchables was a kid,...
- 9/22/2016
- Den of Geek
There’s an alternate version of Brian De Palma’s career where 1972’s Get to Know Your Rabbit stands as one of the most seminal entries. The last of De Palma’s early-70s comedies, the film is most readily recognized as a prelude to his directorial turning point. Just a year later, he began a string of legacy defining films: Sisters, Obsession, and Carrie.
But this early-period black sheep is more than a mere historical footnote. It’s the transitional fiasco that De Palma needed. Coming after the modest hits of Greetings and Hi, Mom!, this was the big leagues, a chance for the nascent but rising director to work with Hollywood and establish himself as a conjunction of artistic and financial impulses.
It’s only inevitable that even De Palma’s crowd-pleasing comedy scans as commentary about the prison of working with studios. In an impish reversal of the artist’s own circumstances,...
But this early-period black sheep is more than a mere historical footnote. It’s the transitional fiasco that De Palma needed. Coming after the modest hits of Greetings and Hi, Mom!, this was the big leagues, a chance for the nascent but rising director to work with Hollywood and establish himself as a conjunction of artistic and financial impulses.
It’s only inevitable that even De Palma’s crowd-pleasing comedy scans as commentary about the prison of working with studios. In an impish reversal of the artist’s own circumstances,...
- 9/20/2016
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
Leave it to Brian De Palma to turn one of the most traumatic events of his adolescence into a film school homework assignment.
Arguably the most personal entry in De Palma’s filmography, Home Movies began as a class project while he was teaching film production at his alma mater, Sarah Lawrence College. Fresh off the supernatural successes of Carrie and The Fury, he tasked his students with the challenge of creating a low-budget film using highly personal stories from his own teenage years. As De Palma bluntly states in the documentary De Palma, “99% of film students are going nowhere” after graduation. At least these students would get hands-on training and earn a feature film credit. More importantly, De Palma would get the opportunity to revisit his early days of guerilla filmmaking and indulge some of his usual obsessions (erotic surveillance, films within films) while poking fun at some of...
Arguably the most personal entry in De Palma’s filmography, Home Movies began as a class project while he was teaching film production at his alma mater, Sarah Lawrence College. Fresh off the supernatural successes of Carrie and The Fury, he tasked his students with the challenge of creating a low-budget film using highly personal stories from his own teenage years. As De Palma bluntly states in the documentary De Palma, “99% of film students are going nowhere” after graduation. At least these students would get hands-on training and earn a feature film credit. More importantly, De Palma would get the opportunity to revisit his early days of guerilla filmmaking and indulge some of his usual obsessions (erotic surveillance, films within films) while poking fun at some of...
- 9/19/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Manic, messy, and experimental, The Wedding Party serves as a 90-minute preamble, both technically and thematically, to the next decade of Brian De Palma’s young career. Co-directed with two others (Wilford Leach and Cynthia Munroe), the film was shot in 1963, only to be released in 1969, after both De Palma and Robert De Niro’s stars were on the rise. Leach was a theater professor at Sarah Lawrence, De Palma and Munroe two of his students. Fellow student Jill Clayburgh stars as Josephine, the bride-to-be, while Charles Pfluger plays Charlie, the impending groom. Jennifer Salt — who would go on to star in Murder à la Mod, Hi, Mom! and Sisters — also appears as Phoebe, friend of the bride.
Not too long after Charlie docks on the upscale island where the wedding is to take place and meets Josephine’s whole, judgmental family, his two groomsmen, Cecil (De Niro) and Alistair (William Finley,...
Not too long after Charlie docks on the upscale island where the wedding is to take place and meets Josephine’s whole, judgmental family, his two groomsmen, Cecil (De Niro) and Alistair (William Finley,...
- 9/8/2016
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
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Director Brian De Palma followed Carrie with another gory vaunt into the supernatural. Here's why The Fury deserves a revisit...
When it comes to telekinesis and gory visual effects, the movie that generally springs to mind is David Cronenberg’s 1981 exploding head opus, Scanners. But years before that, American director Brian De Palma was liberally dowsing the screen with claret in his 1976 adaptation of Carrie - still rightly regarded as one of the best Stephen King adaptations made so far. A less widely remembered supernatural film from De Palma came two years after: De Palma’s supernatural thriller, The Fury.
The Fury was made with a more generous budget than Carrie, had a starrier cast (Kirk Douglas in the lead, John Cassavetes playing the villain), and it even did pretty well in financial terms. Yet The Fury had the misfortune of being caught in a kind of pincer movement between Carrie,...
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Director Brian De Palma followed Carrie with another gory vaunt into the supernatural. Here's why The Fury deserves a revisit...
When it comes to telekinesis and gory visual effects, the movie that generally springs to mind is David Cronenberg’s 1981 exploding head opus, Scanners. But years before that, American director Brian De Palma was liberally dowsing the screen with claret in his 1976 adaptation of Carrie - still rightly regarded as one of the best Stephen King adaptations made so far. A less widely remembered supernatural film from De Palma came two years after: De Palma’s supernatural thriller, The Fury.
The Fury was made with a more generous budget than Carrie, had a starrier cast (Kirk Douglas in the lead, John Cassavetes playing the villain), and it even did pretty well in financial terms. Yet The Fury had the misfortune of being caught in a kind of pincer movement between Carrie,...
- 6/23/2016
- Den of Geek
Bringing up Brian De Palma as if he’s still some kind of marginalized or misunderstood figure is now heavily contentious, not just in the sense that “the discussion” has, with the presence of the Internet, become so heavily splintered that every figure has at least seem some form of reappraisal, but in that this is being discussed on the occasion of a new documentary and retrospectives in New York, Chicago, Austin, and Toronto (the lattermost of which this symposium will be timed to). Yes, the line has probably tipped past “divisive,” but that doesn’t mean there still isn’t room for debate.
It’s not hard to understand why De Palma’s work strikes a cord with a new cinephilia fixated on form and vulgarity. Though, in going film-by-film — taking us from political diatribes against America to gonzo horror to gangster films your parents watch to strange European...
It’s not hard to understand why De Palma’s work strikes a cord with a new cinephilia fixated on form and vulgarity. Though, in going film-by-film — taking us from political diatribes against America to gonzo horror to gangster films your parents watch to strange European...
- 6/17/2016
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
The setup to De Palma, Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow's engrossing new documentary about the life and career of controversial filmmaker Brian De Palma (opening in theaters on June 10th), couldn't be simpler: The 75-year-old director dissects most of his films and shares analyses and behind-the-scenes anecdotes in between clips. Forget talking-head testimonials from collaborators, flashy visuals or dramatic reenactments. You just get the man himself, looking back and holding court in all his verbose, insightful glory.
And that is more than enough. Known primarily for his obsession with voyeurism,...
And that is more than enough. Known primarily for his obsession with voyeurism,...
- 6/9/2016
- Rollingstone.com
How do you meet a legendary director like Brian De Palma and become his pal? As Noah Baumbach explains, you go to this birthday party. "I got loaded and hit on Brian, talking about his movies. I remember Brian at one point saying to me [incredulously] 'Get To Know Your Rabbit'?!' — I mean, I was really overdoing it, trying to get my bonafides out there," he told us last fall. "I woke up the next day after the party thinking like, well that was fun to have met Brian De Palma. But then Brian called me that day and he was like, 'Let's get together.' He was so open." From there a friendship sparked, and now a documentary, with Baumbach teaming with his buddy Jake Paltrow to make a movie about De Palma, and a pretty damn good one at that. Here's the official synopsis: One of the most talented,...
- 4/20/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
★★★☆☆ Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow's unpretentious documentary De Palma (2015) reveals a clear-sighted and fascinating director, who often seems as bemused by the vagaries and inconsistencies in his own career as everyone else. Brian De Palma was initially seen as the most talented of the Young Turks who came to prominence in the seventies. Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg all deferred to him and his fierce intelligence. However, De Palma was to be left struggling in their wake as they all went on to accrue massive commercial and critical success while his own career, despite the occasional peak, suffered from troughs of ever-deeper despond.
The directors eschews the conventional prologue to such 'Extended Features' fare that would involve a chorus of praise from De Palma's peers, perhaps to forestall those obvious comparisons. It's consistent with his no-frills approach, which has De Palma sitting down...
The directors eschews the conventional prologue to such 'Extended Features' fare that would involve a chorus of praise from De Palma's peers, perhaps to forestall those obvious comparisons. It's consistent with his no-frills approach, which has De Palma sitting down...
- 9/9/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Larry chases After The Fox.
Neil Simon, a first-time screenwriter with three hits running on Broadway, wanted Marcello Mastroianni to play the lead in this movie-biz caper comedy, but got Peter Sellers instead, who had always wanted to work with Vittorio De Sica. De Sica brought on his writer pal Cesare Zavattini. He and Simon wrote together through interpreters, but in the end Simon worried that De Sica’s Italian editors were killing the jokes. Pretty much ignored when released, it’s now a moderately popular cult item.
Click here to watch the trailer.
One of the huge benefits of following Trailers From Hell on a day-to-day basis is that you start in on a grasp of what’s driving certain gurus at any certain time. Larry Karaszewski? He’s currently our go to guy for late-1960′s/early 1970′s comedies like Who’s Minding the Mint?, Get to Know Your Rabbit,...
Neil Simon, a first-time screenwriter with three hits running on Broadway, wanted Marcello Mastroianni to play the lead in this movie-biz caper comedy, but got Peter Sellers instead, who had always wanted to work with Vittorio De Sica. De Sica brought on his writer pal Cesare Zavattini. He and Simon wrote together through interpreters, but in the end Simon worried that De Sica’s Italian editors were killing the jokes. Pretty much ignored when released, it’s now a moderately popular cult item.
Click here to watch the trailer.
One of the huge benefits of following Trailers From Hell on a day-to-day basis is that you start in on a grasp of what’s driving certain gurus at any certain time. Larry Karaszewski? He’s currently our go to guy for late-1960′s/early 1970′s comedies like Who’s Minding the Mint?, Get to Know Your Rabbit,...
- 7/15/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
The week ends. Here’s a recap.
Trailers
On Monday, June 26, Larry Karaszewski told us about Get To Know Your Rabbit and we offered up some awesome Tommy Smothers videos.
On Wednesday, June 28, Joe Dante told us about the stock-footage extravaganza of Invisible Invaders.
And on Friday, July 1, Josh Olson (or something like him) came to tell us about the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Residuals
Elsewhere on the blog, Joe brought the last of his roundups for TCM Drive-In Double Features.
Another installment of Stills We Love featured both people we love and television we love when we found a still from Kevin McCarthy’s episode of The Twilight Zone.
We got a bit musically, offering up some Lalo Schifrin appreciation and celebrating Bernard Herrmann’s 100th birthday with a list of Joe Dante’s Top 10 Bernie Scores.
The great Ray Harryhausen also had a birthday last week.
Trailers
On Monday, June 26, Larry Karaszewski told us about Get To Know Your Rabbit and we offered up some awesome Tommy Smothers videos.
On Wednesday, June 28, Joe Dante told us about the stock-footage extravaganza of Invisible Invaders.
And on Friday, July 1, Josh Olson (or something like him) came to tell us about the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Residuals
Elsewhere on the blog, Joe brought the last of his roundups for TCM Drive-In Double Features.
Another installment of Stills We Love featured both people we love and television we love when we found a still from Kevin McCarthy’s episode of The Twilight Zone.
We got a bit musically, offering up some Lalo Schifrin appreciation and celebrating Bernard Herrmann’s 100th birthday with a list of Joe Dante’s Top 10 Bernie Scores.
The great Ray Harryhausen also had a birthday last week.
- 7/3/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
Larry Karaszewski breaks out the time that DePalma got Smothers-ed*. It’s time to Get To Know Your Rabbit.
One of Brian dePalma’s more obscure credits, this unappreciated attempt to turn Tommy Smothers into a movie star fizzled out. Filmed in 1970 after Hi Mom and before Sisters, it fell victim to a regime change at Warner Bros. and wasn’t released until 1972. But it’s still an offbeat anti-establishment spoof that’s now finally available on dvd through Warner Archive.
Click here to watch the trailer, then read on for some bonus stuff.
How great is it that the Warner Arcvive a) exists and b) is getting things like this obscure DePalma movie out there for the mass consumption? It’s very great indeed.
Personal aside: I once went through this odd phase where I was briefly obsessed with The Smothers Brothers. This was just before the “everything you...
One of Brian dePalma’s more obscure credits, this unappreciated attempt to turn Tommy Smothers into a movie star fizzled out. Filmed in 1970 after Hi Mom and before Sisters, it fell victim to a regime change at Warner Bros. and wasn’t released until 1972. But it’s still an offbeat anti-establishment spoof that’s now finally available on dvd through Warner Archive.
Click here to watch the trailer, then read on for some bonus stuff.
How great is it that the Warner Arcvive a) exists and b) is getting things like this obscure DePalma movie out there for the mass consumption? It’s very great indeed.
Personal aside: I once went through this odd phase where I was briefly obsessed with The Smothers Brothers. This was just before the “everything you...
- 6/27/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
Get to know your invisible body snatcher this week on Trailers From Hell. Your weekly preview is coming right up.
On Monday, June 27, join Larry Karaszewski for the trailer to Get to Know Your Rabbit. One of Brian dePalma’s more obscure credits, this unappreciated attempt to turn Tommy Smothers into a movie star fizzled out. Filmed in 1970 after Hi Mom and before Sisters, it fell victim to a regime change at Warner Bros. and wasn’t released until 1972. But it’s still an offbeat anti-establishment spoof that’s now finally available on dvd through Warner Archive.
On Wednesday, June 29, Joe Dante warns us about the coming Invisible Invaders. ”Earth Given 24 Hours to Surrender!” It’s those darned aliens again! This time they’re reanimating dead people that they killed in the first place. Luckily for us, sci-fi stalwart John Agar is on the job. But a lot of years...
On Monday, June 27, join Larry Karaszewski for the trailer to Get to Know Your Rabbit. One of Brian dePalma’s more obscure credits, this unappreciated attempt to turn Tommy Smothers into a movie star fizzled out. Filmed in 1970 after Hi Mom and before Sisters, it fell victim to a regime change at Warner Bros. and wasn’t released until 1972. But it’s still an offbeat anti-establishment spoof that’s now finally available on dvd through Warner Archive.
On Wednesday, June 29, Joe Dante warns us about the coming Invisible Invaders. ”Earth Given 24 Hours to Surrender!” It’s those darned aliens again! This time they’re reanimating dead people that they killed in the first place. Luckily for us, sci-fi stalwart John Agar is on the job. But a lot of years...
- 6/27/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
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