Brian De Palma Movies on TCM starting at 7 pm CST tonight 7/05/21

7:00 pm The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
2h 5m | Comedy
Story of New York City bond salesman, Sherman McCoy, who accidentally hits a you...
Director
Eric Schwab, Brian De Palma
Cast
Alan King, Adam Lefevre, Katrina Braque


9:15 pm Obsession (1976)
1h 38m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-14
A businessman falls in love with a double for his murdered wife.

New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland's life is shattered when his wife and daughter are tragically killed in a botched kidnap rescue attempt. Many years later while visiting Italy he meets and falls in love with Sandra Portinari who bears a striking resemblance to his wife.
Director
Brian De Palma
Cast
Don Hood, Sylvia Kuumba Williams, Patrick Mcnamara


11:15 pm Sisters (1972)
1h 32m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-MA
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apart...

A nosey reporter thinks she's witnessed a killing--but why does she have a strange affinity for the murder suspect--and furthermore, why do they share the same scar?

Director
Brian De Palma
Cast
Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning


1:00 am Blow Out (1981)
1h 47m | Drama | TV-14
When audio technician Jack Terri is recording sound effects for a movie, he hear...

When audio technician Jack Terri is recording sound effects for a movie, he hears a car crash. Just as the car is sinking in the river, Jack pulls the woman inside to safety, but cannot save the other passenger. When he learns that man who drowned was a presidential candidate, he suspects that the wreck was not an accident, but murder. After Jack becomes romantically involved with the woman he saved, he learns that she is part of a scheme to blackmail important men, and he begins to wonder if things are as they appear to be. Jack realizes that he was right about the "accident" when the assassin focuses on him and his girlfriend, and he has to utilize all of his special effects skills to keep them alive.

Director
Brian De Palma,John Fox
Cast
Ann Kelly, Bill Hansard, Donald Hansard


3:00 am Body Double (1984)
1h 49m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-14
An out of work actor thinks he sees a violent crime committed against a woman wi...

A working actor finds himself house-sitting for a friend, becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman he's been eyeing through the telescope, and ends up in the middle of a murder plot.

Director
Brian De Palma
Cast
Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry

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Directed by Brian De Palma
By Frank Miller


5 Movies / July 5 starting at 8 p.m.

From improvisatory comedy to classic horror films and thrillers, Brian De Palma has established himself as one of the screen’s foremost stylists, and one of his films in particular is the subject of TCM’s podcast The Plot Thickens: Season 2 - The Devil’s Candy. Drawing on influences as disparate as Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard and, of course, Alfred Hitchcock, he’s created a body of work — 32 narrative features to date along with shorts, documentaries and music videos — among the most distinctive in modern cinema.

Along the way, he brought Robert De Niro to the screen for the first credited time (in 1968’s Greetings), introduced Martin Scorsese to De Niro and screenwriter Paul Schrader and helped George Lucas write the opening scrawl for the first Star Wars film. Along with De Niro, De Palma also fostered the careers of John Lithgow (in Obsession, 1976); Sissy Spacek, John Travolta, Amy Irving and Nancy Allen (in Carrie, 1976); and Melanie Griffith (in Body Double, 1984). He has been honored with awards from the Berlin and Venice Film Festivals and Amnesty International (for his 2007 political thriller Redacted) while also receiving a record six nominations for the Razzie Award for Worst Director.

The Newark, NJ, native was studying physics at Columbia University when he fell in love with film after seeing Citizen Kane (1941) and Vertigo (1958). While earning an MA in theater from Sarah Lawrence College, De Palma shot his first film in 1963, The Wedding Party (1969), co-directed with Sarah Lawrence professor Wilford Leach and fellow student Cynthia Munroe and starring De Palma’s friend De Niro along with Jill Clayburgh and De Palma regular William Finley. Because of a dispute with financial backer Stanley Borden, the film was held from release until after De Palma’s comedy, Greetings brought attention to De Palma and De Niro.

De Palma moved from comedy to suspense for the first time with Sisters (1972), starring Finley, Jennifer Salt and Margot Kidder. This was also the first of two De Palma films (along with Obsession) scored by Bernard Herrmann, one Hitchcock’s key collaborators. De Palma’s first major hit was the Stephen King adaptation Carrie, which brought Spacek and Piper Laurie Oscar nominations. He scored another major hit with his remake of Scarface (1983), starring Al Pacino, followed by the equally successful The Untouchables (1987), which brought Sean Connery an Oscar. He also helped launch Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible film franchise in 1996, though he declined an offer to direct the 2000 sequel. ...

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Have never seen Obssession or Sisters, so I'll be watching the first and DVR'ing the second.

Really like Blow Out and Body Double. If you haven't seen them, I'd DVR both.