The Black Dahlia 15, nationwide An Inconvenient Truth U, selected cinemas The Black Dahlia may look promising, it might have good pedigree, and the word might be positive, but don't be taken in. Just because it's directed by Brian De Palma (Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito's Way), adapted from the novel by James Ellroy (LA Confidential), and it ...

Acclaimed filmmaker BRIAN DE PALMA was forced to cancel a master class he was to teach after undergoing emergency dental surgery.
The Carrie director was scheduled to appear at the World Film Festival in Montreal, Canada (21Aug-01Sep08) and share his insights on his craft.
But the 67-year-old pulled out at the last minute after undergoing "killer dental surgery", according to ...

It's 2006, and Brian De Palma can't believe his luck. Dotcom billionaire and aspiring film producer Mark Cuban offers him $5m to make a movie. About anything. The only proviso is that it has to be shot in hi-definition. Of course, De Palma jumps at the chance. He tells Cuban he'd like to make a film about ...

Bananas (1971) A decade ahead of his notorious, Bergman-aping period, Woody Allen was already looking beyond his borscht-belt roots. Bananas, his scattershot burlesque of Latin American revolutionaries, boasted a sly reference to Eisenstein's Odessa steps sequence (bouncing pram and all) in a scene in which rebels storm the government building. Best of all, it paved the way for a ...