De Palma

American  

[duh pahl-muh] / də ˈpɑl mə /

noun

1. Brian, born 1940, U.S. film director.

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Example Sentences

Ever since its re-release in the early 1950s, “Battleship Potemkin” has been consistently rated among the greatest films ever made, and has influenced numerous creative artists, from the notorious Leni Riefenstahl in her propagandist documentaries to the painter Francis Bacon, who was inspired by the agonizing images of the Odessa Steps sequence, as was Brian De Palma in making the railroad-station scene in “The Untouchables.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Tarantino fondly imitates Japanese manga and samurai films, Hong Kong kung-fu offerings, blaxploitation movies and Brian De Palma’s split-screen stalker motifs, all in service of a point that the B movies the director inhaled as a kid are overlooked classics.

From The Wall Street Journal

At times, “Mr. Scorsese” feels like a very long, and notably star-studded, bonus features reel, in which the director and longtime friends and collaborators including Thelma Schoonmaker, Robert De Niro, Nicholas Pileggi, Brian De Palma, Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis discuss the evolution of Scorsese’s work and their admiration of it.

From Los Angeles Times

A lot of people would have you do that Louie De Palma thing over and over again, and you’re so great at that.

From Los Angeles Times

According to Saxon, much of the business of what Donloe does onscreen in the first movie directed by Brian De Palma came from an unexpected interaction on set.

From Los Angeles Times