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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
I am surprised you don't love DePalma more -- I've always looked at him as a master director.
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I'm definitely beginning to think he's one of the most interesting of that whole movie brat generation. I've not seen everything by him but I suppose whatever problems I may have had might just've come down to me deciding quite early on, for reasons I can't even remember anymore, that I'm not a big fan - based, I don't doubt, simply on my not liking The Untouchables.
And yes, the chainsaw scene in the hotel is brilliant. I was trying to work out if he'd taken the mobile camera thing from Argento or Hitchcock. It's obviously Hitchcock but it
looks more like a homage to Argento. Although the fact so much of that scene takes place in a shower obviously gives part of the game away, atleast.
And Scarface is probably the last time that Pacino got away with acting like a coke fuelled egomaniac - probably because he was
playing a coke fuelled egomaniac.
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NEW BELA TARR FILM! For those who don't know, Bela Tarr is one of the best directors of our time, our generation's Tarkovsky (Mirror, Stalker, Nostalgia, etc).
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I've not seen the new one yet but I saw The Man from London recently and was really impressed.