Brian De Palma's SISTERS

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I haven't seen much by DePalma, mainly because I've had a preconceived notion that I picked up somewhere that he was just a cheapened version of Scorsese. I'll have to give him another chance; this film in particular sounds very interesting.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Best thing about the movie are the opening credits with the embryo, combined with Bernard Herrmann's creepy Moog/orchestra score.

Also like the split-screen action...

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 25 November 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm a massive De Palma fan, but Sisters is one of his less-successful films for me (I'm always happy when people discover it, nonetheless)... I think this is one of the few where his Hitchcockian flourishes are the (dramatic) ends, as opposed to the (comedic) means. Still, the hallucinatory flashbacks at the climax are something else entirely.

Five favorite De Palma films:

The Fury (1978)
Hi, Mom! (1970)... my God! Everyone who has any preconceived notions of De Palma as this or that should be forced to view this masterpiece.
Femme Fatale (2002)
Carrie and/or Obsession (1976)
Casualties of War (1989)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 November 2004 11:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I keep meaning to order the French DVD that just came out a few months back with just about the only remaining De Palma films I haven't seen, Dionysus in '69, as well a pair of early shorts. (A couple others that mere completism-auteurism hasn't been enough to get me to chase: Get To Know Your Rabbit, Wise Guys and Home Movies.) Unfortunately, it doesn't include Murder a la Mod.

Oddest "cinephile" moment of late: Picking up a copy of the DVD for Greetings in a discount bin at the local supermarket.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 26 November 2004 11:24 (nineteen years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

Revisited this tonight for the first time in a decade. Margot Kidder... my god...

― flappy bird, Saturday, 14 November 2020 08:16 (three years ago) link

some cool camera shit too idk

― flappy bird, Saturday, 14 November 2020 08:16 (three years ago) link

two years pass...

Ooh, this is on Talking Pictures in about 3 minutes.

― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 10 November 2023 22:57 (six months ago) link

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